Alright,
Here's a fullllll backstory to my carpet Nem.
I got him on July 25th to the date.
He was in a tank that was about 1 month 2 weeks old. Before everyone goes (too early for a nem!) I disagree.
My params were stable, and I was keeping SPS.
Here's a photo from July 30th, 5 days later and he's still happy photo
Here's one from August 25th, IME he's still super happy here! (Bottom Left)
Alright, then I upgraded my tank to a 45.
I started the process around August 10th? I think, somewhere around there.
And He got put in around August 30th.
Again I know people say "too soon" and this time I do agree.... with the larger water volume I wasn't accounting for the increased time needed for a proper establishment despite my crazy "quick start" methods.
Okay so hold on though, So I shouldn't have moved him then, but I did, partly because in a smaller system less stable he did just fine!
Now fast forward about 1 month to today.
NOW My tank's stable, definitely IME stable as I'm getting SPS Growth and encrusting:
Okay wow, super ****** quality, but hopefully you smarties will be able to see the encrusting I'm talking about. This is all within 5 days of mounting this btw, so if it's growing that quick in 5 days, IDK that's a really good sign to me.
And finally Here's a FTS and my Nem. I'm so sad. This is the worst he's looked and I just can't do it anymore .
I did end up moving him from a super high flow spot to one that's medium/low, and he ended up attaching his foot to my magnet which is kind of convienient.
Because now I can easily move him or take him out.....
Things I noticed, you see how his column now is like green? It's a DARK green in person and before it was always like beige.....
Idk what's up....
I'm willing to 100% accept that even though my SPS are happy my tank is still not stable enough, but I'd need someone with something about Nems or something to give me more reason as to why this is.
Or maybe he has a nem disease IDK?
Also doesn't make sense that he'd be happier in a 1 month old 13.5G Fluval
and less happy in my now almost 2 months old, JBJ 45 with way better equipment and IMO much stabler conditions.....
Anyway, any help would be awesome thanks.
Here's a fullllll backstory to my carpet Nem.
I got him on July 25th to the date.
He was in a tank that was about 1 month 2 weeks old. Before everyone goes (too early for a nem!) I disagree.
My params were stable, and I was keeping SPS.
Here's a photo from July 30th, 5 days later and he's still happy photo
Here's one from August 25th, IME he's still super happy here! (Bottom Left)
Alright, then I upgraded my tank to a 45.
I started the process around August 10th? I think, somewhere around there.
And He got put in around August 30th.
Again I know people say "too soon" and this time I do agree.... with the larger water volume I wasn't accounting for the increased time needed for a proper establishment despite my crazy "quick start" methods.
Okay so hold on though, So I shouldn't have moved him then, but I did, partly because in a smaller system less stable he did just fine!
Now fast forward about 1 month to today.
NOW My tank's stable, definitely IME stable as I'm getting SPS Growth and encrusting:
Okay wow, super ****** quality, but hopefully you smarties will be able to see the encrusting I'm talking about. This is all within 5 days of mounting this btw, so if it's growing that quick in 5 days, IDK that's a really good sign to me.
And finally Here's a FTS and my Nem. I'm so sad. This is the worst he's looked and I just can't do it anymore .
I did end up moving him from a super high flow spot to one that's medium/low, and he ended up attaching his foot to my magnet which is kind of convienient.
Because now I can easily move him or take him out.....
Things I noticed, you see how his column now is like green? It's a DARK green in person and before it was always like beige.....
Idk what's up....
I'm willing to 100% accept that even though my SPS are happy my tank is still not stable enough, but I'd need someone with something about Nems or something to give me more reason as to why this is.
Or maybe he has a nem disease IDK?
Also doesn't make sense that he'd be happier in a 1 month old 13.5G Fluval
and less happy in my now almost 2 months old, JBJ 45 with way better equipment and IMO much stabler conditions.....
Anyway, any help would be awesome thanks.