anemone shrinking and getting darker

[nanonøkk]

Nononokk: after looking over ur threads.......i have to say that you dont really know whats up or down........you have a 10 gallon nano(extremely hard to keep due to low water volume) thats less than a year old.........no skimmer.......dosing bunch of stuff..........hydrogen peroxide?!?!?........dosing chemicals........bunch of frags some dying.........anemone.......fish dying........etc.......temps prolly a lil high........i would consider this tank a mess atm........
Imo........full 100% water change.........stop dosing ANYTHING.........stop adding anything...........let tank recycle and KEEP IT SIMPLE........salinity target 1.025.......temp target 77-79 degrees.......0 ammonia.......0 nitrites..........low nitrates(under 5ppm)...........alk 6-7dkh........ph 8.0-8.2.......phosphates less than .25ppm........calcium 420-460ppm...........those are the basic parameters.........if you can keep those targets rock solid over the next year......the rest will fall into place........you are a keeper of the water.......not the fish and corals. You have a refugium......check.........get a skimmer too.......it will be very beneficial to your nano........stop dumping cr@p in the water throwing balance off.

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look i didn’t come to get attacked on here ok my temp is actually lower it’s more like 77 and i’ve stopped dosing everything except kent marine and live phytoplankton plus kaltwasser i’ve been doing this for a while seems to work for my tank the fish died because i dont know still i can’t fit a skimmer on my tank and i’m not doing a 100% water change my tank has been balanced the only thing wrong has been the anemone which i will say this again looks like it’s getting darker and losing color even when expanded all i wanted to know is if i should increase the light or feed it more not do what you want me to do and throw off my tanks balence

 

[Jon Fishman]

Yeah, my nems retract in horror to anything added. Kalk, H2O2, Vibrant..... I don’t put anything in my tank other than saltwater now. I dose nothing

 

[nanonøkk]

Yeah, my nems retract in horror to anything added. Kalk, H2O2, Vibrant..... I don’t put anything in my tank other than saltwater now. I dose nothing

yea mine hated vibrant and hydrogen peroxide so i stopped but when i tried the kalk dosing it seemed more happy then it moved to my corner and now it looks to be losing color and it stretches far up for light and i have to dose kalk because i have a lps dominated reef i have a chalice that’s frowning so much right now along with the goniopora the frogspawn and my candy cane coral is now splitting plus my duncan coral has 5 new heads coming in and then my blastomusa has three new heads coming in and there’s now also caroline algae growing everywhere

 

[Rit6942]

look i didn’t come to get attacked on here ok my temp is actually lower it’s more like 77 and i’ve stopped dosing everything except kent marine and live phytoplankton plus kaltwasser i’ve been doing this for a while seems to work for my tank the fish died because i dont know still i can’t fit a skimmer on my tank and i’m not doing a 100% water change my tank has been balanced the only thing wrong has been the anemone which i will say this again looks like it’s getting darker and losing color even when expanded all i wanted to know is if i should increase the light or feed it more not do what you want me to do and throw off my tanks balence

Your not being attacked.......your being given advice from someone who has been keeping reef tanks for 30 years plus both as a hobbyist and commercially with tanks that old and thriving still to this day. If you dont want solid simple advice then ignore my posts.......simple as that.

 

[nanonøkk]

Your not being attacked.......your being given advice from someone who has been keeping reef tanks for 30 years plus both as a hobbyist and commercially with tanks that old and thriving still to this day. If you dont want solid simple advice then ignore my posts.......simple as that.

all i wanted to know is why my nem looks darker even when expanded fully vs bright and vibrant like it used to be

 

[Rit6942]

all i wanted to know is why my nem looks darker even when expanded fully vs bright and vibrant like it used to be

who knows........but the guess is the water quality and stability is not right.........and your posts and threads all point to water quality and parameters being out of balance and not kept stabile.

 

[nanonøkk]

who knows........but the guess is the water quality and stability is not right.........and your posts and threads all point to water quality and parameters being out of balance and not kept stabile.

so your telling me that what i should do is make my tank unstable again and then make it stable after messing everything up

 

[Rit6942]

so your telling me that what i should do is make my tank unstable again and then make it stable after messing everything up

Your tank is stabile? Is your salinity kept WITHIN 1 point of 1.025 24/7? Is your temperature kept within 1 degree of your set temp 24/7? Is your ammonia and nitrites always zero with nitrates never above 5ppm? 24/7? Is your alkalinity always within plus/minus 1 point of 7dkh? 24/7? Are your phosphates always at or below .25ppm 24/7? Is your calcium betwern 420-460ppm 24/7? Do not even answer this question publically but if you cannot say yes to ALL of those basic parameters then the answer is NO.......your tank is not stabile........not to mention proper par lighting for whats in your tank and water flow with what your keeping or the potential for any deadly toxins or overdoses of additives on top you may have put in........

 

[nanonøkk]

Your tank is stabile? Is your salinity kept WITHIN 1 point of 1.025 24/7? Is your temperature kept within 1 degree of your set temp 24/7? Is your ammonia and nitrites always zero with nitrates never above 5ppm? 24/7? Is your alkalinity always within plus/minus 1 point of 7dkh? 24/7? Are your phosphates always at or below .25ppm 24/7? Is your calcium betwern 420-460ppm 24/7? Do not even answer this question publically but if you cannot say yes to ALL of those basic parameters then the answer is NO.......your tank is not stabile........not to mention proper par lighting for whats in your tank and water flow with what your keeping or the potential for any deadly toxins or overdoses of additives on top you may have put in........

i’m just gonna stop responding to you and no your not helping right now your bashing me for having my salinity low by one my ph is in range my alk is in range for my tank my calcium is in range for my tank my nitrates i do need to get up i agree with that one and my phosphates are under .25 and my tank is way different from yours dude every tank is different and my light is way to bright for my tank so yea it’s been on acclamation mode for a while now and i haven’t added anything deadly to my tank ever since i stopped dosing hydrogen peroxide and vibrant and i do have enough flow for what i have in my tank and i dont over dose on additives i’ve been dosing the same amount for a long time and you may think you know about my tank but you don’t know about my tank and people like you are the kind that make me wanna end it fast in this world oh wait that’s why i stopped asking for help because when i do ask i get ignored or yelled at thanks for nothing dude go hurt someone else

 

[Jon Fishman]

Is it stretching up for light, or just getting comfy and spreading out to get light, food, flow......


I also have never had the “bubbles” on the tips like many have..... sometimes a bit. But not usually

 

[Jon Fishman]

Also, for what it’s worth, I don’t test anything in my tank, and the temp usually is within 2 degrees at all time because of my chiller.

I think, the tank size is the big issue. I had my nem in. RSR Max Nano (20 gal?) and it did ok, but no way would I be able to keep anything alive in a 10 gal. The swings are just too big.

 

[nanonøkk]

Also, for what it’s worth, I don’t test anything in my tank, and the temp usually is within 2 degrees at all time because of my chiller.

I think, the tank size is the big issue. I had my nem in. RSR Max Nano (20 gal?) and it did ok, but no way would I be able to keep anything alive in a 10 gal. The swings are just too big.

yea that’s why i measure a lot and i’m worried about stuff that i put in my tank and it reaches up for light so i’m thinking it’s a lighting issue and i have a lot of bio media plus the live rock which i have way to much live rock and i finally got my nutrients under control thanks to the cheato

 

[nanonøkk]

Also, for what it’s worth, I don’t test anything in my tank, and the temp usually is within 2 degrees at all time because of my chiller.

I think, the tank size is the big issue. I had my nem in. RSR Max Nano (20 gal?) and it did ok, but no way would I be able to keep anything alive in a 10 gal. The swings are just too big.

and my temperature dosent change very much the cheato light also gives off heat so everything stays the same temp it dose raise to 80 during the summer though

 

[Jon Fishman]

and my temperature dosent change very much the cheato light also gives off heat so everything stays the same temp it dose raise to 80 during the summer though

I doubt it would be a temp issue anyways....... Even during a pretty bad tank crash (long power-outage, crazy temps) my nems didn't even flinch.

The anenome is 95% (don’t fact check that) made up of water...... the water chemistry is the #1 factor.

With that said, it’s the stability of the water. I don’t test, but I also don’t add...... any changes in my tank happen slowly...... a snail dying in a 10g is a big deal..... I’ve lost boxfish (that I never found) and noticed nothing else in the tank suffering from it.

 

[nanonøkk]

I doubt it would be a temp issue anyways....... Even during a pretty bad tank crash (long power-outage, crazy temps) my nems didn't even flinch.

The anenome is 95% (don’t fact check that) made up of water...... the water chemistry is the #1 factor.

With that said, it’s the stability of the water. I don’t test, but I also don’t add...... any changes in my tank happen slowly...... a snail dying in a 10g is a big deal..... I’ve lost boxfish (that I never found) and noticed nothing else in the tank suffering from it.

yea i watch my tank for anything that goes missing and then i try to find it and i figured out what my perameters needed to be for everything to be happy and when i didn’t dose kalkwasser for a day once i saw that the anemone wasn’t to happy about that

 

[Andy_huddy]

it’s called anxiety dude something i have to live with unfortunately and that’s just a tag i put on there not once besides that did i mention it was dying i just wanted to know if it needs more light

That was the first hater I've seen on here bro. Pay no attention. Mine shrinks at night too. Do a water change, that might help

 

[nanonøkk]

That was the first hater I've seen on here bro. Pay no attention. Mine shrinks at night too. Do a water change, that might help

yea same and not every time i post i think my nems dying and yea i’m gonna try a small water change tonight