Hello All,
My wife and I took the plunge and purchased an established reef tank 2 days ago. We have absolutely 0 experience with a salt water tank, other than the extensive internet research we did prior to jumping in. The tank we purchased is a 60g with 20g sump and has T5 lighting. We transferred as much of the original water as we could fit in the truck (Approx. 35 gallons) and used the RO/DI filter to filter water for the rest. The fish/corrals/anemone were out of the tank for approx. 5-6 hours before reassembled the tank and put them back in.
It seems that everything has come around and all four fish that were included in the deal seem to be acting fine and the corals have all opened up. The one concern we have is the Anemone that was also included. I wish I could say what kind it is specifically but I am not sure.
When we first placed everything in the tank she looked very rough, slumped over, shriveled up, and completely without form. The 2nd day (yesterday) it seemed to recover, standing up straight and extending its tentacles. This morning my wife sent me a text saying that the Anemone had sucked all its tentacles up inside its foot.
It has since come back out but now is once again slumped over the side of the rock again.
We tested our water yesterday and had 0s for Nitrate, Nitrite, ammonia, and had a pH of 8 and the temp is is at 78. Our salinity is at 1.019, which after some research would seem is too low. Is there any advice that an experience reefer could offer up to try and get this anemone healthy and happy? Also how does one go about bringing the salinity up to par without adding too much at one time?
My wife and I took the plunge and purchased an established reef tank 2 days ago. We have absolutely 0 experience with a salt water tank, other than the extensive internet research we did prior to jumping in. The tank we purchased is a 60g with 20g sump and has T5 lighting. We transferred as much of the original water as we could fit in the truck (Approx. 35 gallons) and used the RO/DI filter to filter water for the rest. The fish/corrals/anemone were out of the tank for approx. 5-6 hours before reassembled the tank and put them back in.
It seems that everything has come around and all four fish that were included in the deal seem to be acting fine and the corals have all opened up. The one concern we have is the Anemone that was also included. I wish I could say what kind it is specifically but I am not sure.
When we first placed everything in the tank she looked very rough, slumped over, shriveled up, and completely without form. The 2nd day (yesterday) it seemed to recover, standing up straight and extending its tentacles. This morning my wife sent me a text saying that the Anemone had sucked all its tentacles up inside its foot.
It has since come back out but now is once again slumped over the side of the rock again.
We tested our water yesterday and had 0s for Nitrate, Nitrite, ammonia, and had a pH of 8 and the temp is is at 78. Our salinity is at 1.019, which after some research would seem is too low. Is there any advice that an experience reefer could offer up to try and get this anemone healthy and happy? Also how does one go about bringing the salinity up to par without adding too much at one time?