Hi
I've purchased a tri colour anemone about 2 months ago, was doing fine until I change my salt brand over from coral pro salt to D+Dpro as I could never stable the alk. I just let the tanks alk drop to around the new brand of salt mix. I have a small tank reefer 170. I don't dos much only 1ml alk per day and tank stables out at 9-9.2 ca is around 450-430 mg is 1350-1340 ish. The nem was up on the highest rock for ages but moved one morning and has looked a bit on the pale side and don't really open up much my lights where on 70% radion (lps/softies profile) but have since change it about to 58% A+B. Now the nem is not white as there is colour there but looks pale. I've been trying to remove some nitrate which has cause a few problems for me with killing some sps I had so I've been dosing nopox to bring my levels down but doing so has removed my phosphate which is fine because after a few weeks my nitrate will drop. I did this before on another build and worked well without killing anything. I feed the nem maybe about once every 3 weeks or less. And I feed the tank 3x per day with pellets when I'm at work and mysis when I'm home. I've never had a problem before when keeping mags. Could it be that the light was too high, and this has been the problem? or would it be from the alk drop which has stressed it out? I don't think the nitrate is the problem only to my sps corals I keep sure having no po4 maybe but never had this problem before and I had a few back then which where all fine.
I've purchased a tri colour anemone about 2 months ago, was doing fine until I change my salt brand over from coral pro salt to D+Dpro as I could never stable the alk. I just let the tanks alk drop to around the new brand of salt mix. I have a small tank reefer 170. I don't dos much only 1ml alk per day and tank stables out at 9-9.2 ca is around 450-430 mg is 1350-1340 ish. The nem was up on the highest rock for ages but moved one morning and has looked a bit on the pale side and don't really open up much my lights where on 70% radion (lps/softies profile) but have since change it about to 58% A+B. Now the nem is not white as there is colour there but looks pale. I've been trying to remove some nitrate which has cause a few problems for me with killing some sps I had so I've been dosing nopox to bring my levels down but doing so has removed my phosphate which is fine because after a few weeks my nitrate will drop. I did this before on another build and worked well without killing anything. I feed the nem maybe about once every 3 weeks or less. And I feed the tank 3x per day with pellets when I'm at work and mysis when I'm home. I've never had a problem before when keeping mags. Could it be that the light was too high, and this has been the problem? or would it be from the alk drop which has stressed it out? I don't think the nitrate is the problem only to my sps corals I keep sure having no po4 maybe but never had this problem before and I had a few back then which where all fine.
