I am a fairly new reefer and this is my first post so please be gentle. I got a beautiful magnifica April 23rd from my lfs. Since then however, it has slowly deflated and shrunk its tentacles. I can tell something is wrong but the lfs keeps saying it's fine. I am afraid it is going to die soon unless I do something immediately.
I have attached a video from April 24th as well as several progress pics including one today. Below are all the potentially relevant details and measurement that I could think of. Let me know if something is missing. As a side note I have multiple small rock flower anemone in several different locations throughout the tank. The look very happy with some more than doubling in size over the past month. Rest of the tank is a mixed reef (happy coral too) that is heavily stocked with fish.
Symptoms:
Shortened tentacles
Shrunk (probably only about 1/5th the original size. Maybe even smaller)
Constantly moving
Mouth is gaping
Not responsive to touch
Will eat meaty food
Has constant indirect flow. It is always moving in the water.
Confessions (please don't hate me):
Pretty new to the hobby but have wanted a reef tank for the past 20 years.
The tank was started March 25th with a fish in cycle ending on April 19th.
Anemone was added April 23rd. I know added it this soon was risky but my lrs said my tank should be fine and that adding it early would avoid trouble with it moving and stinging established corals.
Tank Info:
Size 80 Gal with a sump built into the back.
4 T5 bulb light fixture 6 inches above the water.
Anemone is located about 14 inches beneath the light (8 inches under the water) on the side of some purple live reef rock. I was told that it would like being at the base of the rock where it meets the sand bed but I later read on this forum that I should have placed it at the top of the rock column. NOTE: I swapped the bulbs from white to a mixture of blues on April 30th.
2 QPS 9 power heads at level 7 of 20 which I think comes out to 819 gph per power head (located near the top on opposite sides of the tank 48" apart)
2 mighty jet return pumps each at 538 gph
Small protein skimmer
Small chaeto reactor
Current parameters:
salinity: 1.025
ammonia: 0
nitrite: 0
nitrate: 10
ph: 7.9
dkh: 8.5
temp: 78 F
Lights off
Lights on
Lights off
I have attached a video from April 24th as well as several progress pics including one today. Below are all the potentially relevant details and measurement that I could think of. Let me know if something is missing. As a side note I have multiple small rock flower anemone in several different locations throughout the tank. The look very happy with some more than doubling in size over the past month. Rest of the tank is a mixed reef (happy coral too) that is heavily stocked with fish.
Symptoms:
Shortened tentacles
Shrunk (probably only about 1/5th the original size. Maybe even smaller)
Constantly moving
Mouth is gaping
Not responsive to touch
Will eat meaty food
Has constant indirect flow. It is always moving in the water.
Confessions (please don't hate me):
Pretty new to the hobby but have wanted a reef tank for the past 20 years.
The tank was started March 25th with a fish in cycle ending on April 19th.
Anemone was added April 23rd. I know added it this soon was risky but my lrs said my tank should be fine and that adding it early would avoid trouble with it moving and stinging established corals.
Tank Info:
Size 80 Gal with a sump built into the back.
4 T5 bulb light fixture 6 inches above the water.
Anemone is located about 14 inches beneath the light (8 inches under the water) on the side of some purple live reef rock. I was told that it would like being at the base of the rock where it meets the sand bed but I later read on this forum that I should have placed it at the top of the rock column. NOTE: I swapped the bulbs from white to a mixture of blues on April 30th.
2 QPS 9 power heads at level 7 of 20 which I think comes out to 819 gph per power head (located near the top on opposite sides of the tank 48" apart)
2 mighty jet return pumps each at 538 gph
Small protein skimmer
Small chaeto reactor
Current parameters:
salinity: 1.025
ammonia: 0
nitrite: 0
nitrate: 10
ph: 7.9
dkh: 8.5
temp: 78 F
Lights off
Lights on
Lights off