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Hey all,
We've had a nano reef (13gal) for a little over five months now and have slowly been adding livestock to it. We currently have acans, some ricordia and rhodactis, xenia, a couple different zoas, a small hammer, a goniopora, and 3 leathers. We also have a small derasa and an even smaller maxima, as well as a peppermint shrimp and assorted cleaning snails and crabs. Our fish include a pair of clownfish and a yellow watchman goby. Besides a hiccup over a long winter vacation, which cost us our blood shrimp, we've kept the levels and nutrients pretty steady and have experienced growth.
Everything seemed happy, and so we thought we were ready for an anemone. We picked out a smaller one from one of our many LFS after touring the metroplex, and drip acclimated him for about an hour before putting him into the tank on a small clay dish.
The first night, he crawled right onto the rock and seemed happy. Unfortunately, we've had something of an algae outbreak and so I used a bag of phosguard to try to lower phosphates (to get it down from .28 to .15, where it has been since) overnight the next night, and when we woke up, the anemone looked upset. I was worried I dropped phosphates too quickly and removed the phosguard.
Today, he looks worse, and my girlfriend really wants me to get some more opinions if possible. She's been feeding him pe mysis about every other day, but now from what I've read around the web, maybe we need to let it be for a few days and see if it comes back any. I don't want him nuking the tank, but I want to give him every shot to come around. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks!
Parameters
Alk 9.4-10 (not autodosing, so trying to keep it close by dosing daily)
Ca 445
Mg 1540 (I know its high, but I don't dose it, and I wonder if its a testing accuracy issue)
ph 8.0
NO3 3ppm
PO4 0.15ppm
Temp 78
Thanks!
-Jradishness
We've had a nano reef (13gal) for a little over five months now and have slowly been adding livestock to it. We currently have acans, some ricordia and rhodactis, xenia, a couple different zoas, a small hammer, a goniopora, and 3 leathers. We also have a small derasa and an even smaller maxima, as well as a peppermint shrimp and assorted cleaning snails and crabs. Our fish include a pair of clownfish and a yellow watchman goby. Besides a hiccup over a long winter vacation, which cost us our blood shrimp, we've kept the levels and nutrients pretty steady and have experienced growth.
Everything seemed happy, and so we thought we were ready for an anemone. We picked out a smaller one from one of our many LFS after touring the metroplex, and drip acclimated him for about an hour before putting him into the tank on a small clay dish.
The first night, he crawled right onto the rock and seemed happy. Unfortunately, we've had something of an algae outbreak and so I used a bag of phosguard to try to lower phosphates (to get it down from .28 to .15, where it has been since) overnight the next night, and when we woke up, the anemone looked upset. I was worried I dropped phosphates too quickly and removed the phosguard.
Today, he looks worse, and my girlfriend really wants me to get some more opinions if possible. She's been feeding him pe mysis about every other day, but now from what I've read around the web, maybe we need to let it be for a few days and see if it comes back any. I don't want him nuking the tank, but I want to give him every shot to come around. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks!
Parameters
Alk 9.4-10 (not autodosing, so trying to keep it close by dosing daily)
Ca 445
Mg 1540 (I know its high, but I don't dose it, and I wonder if its a testing accuracy issue)
ph 8.0
NO3 3ppm
PO4 0.15ppm
Temp 78
Thanks!
-Jradishness