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Hi everyone,
My tank is about a year old. About 8 months ago we added two of these red and green RBTA's and they thrived and now we have about 10 of them. However, for the last few months they have been looking droopy and stringy (see picture). They do still seem to eat when fed mysis.
The tank was somewhat neglected and was overrun by cyano which was then removed by chemiclean, but then green algae took over and was left to get out of hand and now I am working on getting rid of it. Dissolved N and P have probably been very low for months due to all of the algae.
The anemones are getting 300-450 PAR from a custom LED (same spectrum as radion). They get good flow from a Jebao pump. They are in a 29 gallon tank that is plumbed into my 150g system. Light and flow have not changed over time.
temp 78-79 F
SG 1.026
Alk stable around 8
Ca, Mg stable and normal
Nitrate has been zero for the last few months (Salifert low range)
Phosphate has been around 0.01ppm on the Hanna Ultra low range
Water changes (all from the same box of Reef Crystals) and starting red sea trace elements (ABCD) have not helped.
My plan is to continue aggressive algae removal while feeding reef roids and heavily feeding the fish to get N and P detectable.
I would really appreciate if you could look at the picture and let me know if you have any ideas.
Thank you
My tank is about a year old. About 8 months ago we added two of these red and green RBTA's and they thrived and now we have about 10 of them. However, for the last few months they have been looking droopy and stringy (see picture). They do still seem to eat when fed mysis.
The tank was somewhat neglected and was overrun by cyano which was then removed by chemiclean, but then green algae took over and was left to get out of hand and now I am working on getting rid of it. Dissolved N and P have probably been very low for months due to all of the algae.
The anemones are getting 300-450 PAR from a custom LED (same spectrum as radion). They get good flow from a Jebao pump. They are in a 29 gallon tank that is plumbed into my 150g system. Light and flow have not changed over time.
temp 78-79 F
SG 1.026
Alk stable around 8
Ca, Mg stable and normal
Nitrate has been zero for the last few months (Salifert low range)
Phosphate has been around 0.01ppm on the Hanna Ultra low range
Water changes (all from the same box of Reef Crystals) and starting red sea trace elements (ABCD) have not helped.
My plan is to continue aggressive algae removal while feeding reef roids and heavily feeding the fish to get N and P detectable.
I would really appreciate if you could look at the picture and let me know if you have any ideas.
Thank you