Good afternoon reefers, I've been having my 29g for almost a year (April) and I'm experiencing some BTA trouble. Not too long ago my split BTA decided to move about my tank for a new location. During the move they were smaller in size compared to early February. Just recently they found their "spot" (move around in the same area of the tank), but continued to stay small. I wasn't too worried about them at the time, but today one of the half showed signs of starvation (shown in image below on the purple rock). I am looking to purchase some Viparspectra 165w's because I am currently running Current USA Orbit Marine IC LED's and was wondering if that might help them. I normally feed them Benepets while I feed my corals 3x per week (when I first started to use Benepets, they would normally create a web to capture the food, much like how hammers would eat), but the BTAs seem unresponsive.
Setup:
29g DT
~8g Sump w/ refuge and skimmer
1x Current USA Orbit Marine IC LED
1x Current USA Wavepump 660gph
*running carbon through filter sock*
Livestock:
1x Yellow Watchman Goby
1x Ocelaris Clown
2x Green Chromis
1x Mandarin Dragonet
?x Hermit crabs
~2x Margarita snails
?x Baby Margarita snails (I'm not sure yet)
Coral:
Colony of Blue/Brown Palythoas
3x Hammer of God Zoas
2x Blood Sucker Zoas
GSP
2x Orange/Green Florida Ricordea
1x Kenya tree
~5x Green Palythoas
1x Green/Blue Hammer
3x Branching Green Hamorch (Hammer + Torch)
Levels:
Nitrates: Low (Last time I checked at my LRS it was around 0.5ppm (due to water evaporation) and was a couple of weeks ago)
Nitrites: 0ppm
Ammonia: 0ppm
pH: 8.0ppm
Setup:
29g DT
~8g Sump w/ refuge and skimmer
1x Current USA Orbit Marine IC LED
1x Current USA Wavepump 660gph
*running carbon through filter sock*
Livestock:
1x Yellow Watchman Goby
1x Ocelaris Clown
2x Green Chromis
1x Mandarin Dragonet
?x Hermit crabs
~2x Margarita snails
?x Baby Margarita snails (I'm not sure yet)
Coral:
Colony of Blue/Brown Palythoas
3x Hammer of God Zoas
2x Blood Sucker Zoas
GSP
2x Orange/Green Florida Ricordea
1x Kenya tree
~5x Green Palythoas
1x Green/Blue Hammer
3x Branching Green Hamorch (Hammer + Torch)
Levels:
Nitrates: Low (Last time I checked at my LRS it was around 0.5ppm (due to water evaporation) and was a couple of weeks ago)
Nitrites: 0ppm
Ammonia: 0ppm
pH: 8.0ppm