Will high phosphates/nitrates hurt an anemone?

[qasim99]

I was thinking of getting a BTA this weekend. Ive never kept an anemone before and my tank is running now for around one year. All my parameters are in check besides nitrates and phosphates atm. I usually am able to bring these two down with water changes + adding biopellets when needed, but they always seem to shoot up from time to time. So my question is, are phosphates and nitrates going to be hurtful to the BTA if they were to go up from time to time? Atm they are @ 25ppm nitrate and 0.5 phosphate. I am usually able to get the phospahtes close to zero and the nitrates around 5 or 10 ppm.

 

[garygb]

The nitrates will irritate an anemone, I would recommend you staying away from an anemone until you can keep the nitrates undetectable. It won't kill an anemone to have nitrates, but it will not thrive.

 

[ThRoewer]

Why would nitrates at 10ppm irritate an anemone?

 

[REEFBUILDER1]

I was thinking of getting a BTA this weekend. Ive never kept an anemone before and my tank is running now for around one year. All my parameters are in check besides nitrates and phosphates atm. I usually am able to bring these two down with water changes + adding biopellets when needed, but they always seem to shoot up from time to time. So my question is, are phosphates and nitrates going to be hurtful to the BTA if they were to go up from time to time? Atm they are @ 25ppm nitrate and 0.5 phosphate. I am usually able to get the phospahtes close to zero and the nitrates around 5 or 10 ppm.

If you can keep the nitrates at 10 and phosphate close to 0 then it should be fine

 

[Ginger bay]

You should just be fine with the lower readings as nems can handle it.

 

[addictedreefer]

BTA will be fine. Magnifica or gigantea would be another story.

 

[firewill65]

For the record...i have 12 Red bubble tips in my tank and my nitrates are 80, so who knows!

 

[hotelbravo]

my RBTA does wondeful in my tank with phosphates at .47 and nitrates around 80ppm. ive seen great growth over the past few months. i used to have zero phosphates and very low nitrates but since ive been growing macro in the sump i have allowed the nitrates and phosphates to do their thing and its deffinetly not adversely affecting my anemone.