Hi all,
I have a fairly well established FOWLR tank I've been trying to add a bubble tip to. The tank has been up for 2 years and was intended to be all nem/no coral.
I originally tried about a year and a half in. What had happened was that the anemone was out and bubbled up for about 1.5-2 days before retreating into my rock work. It did this for 3-4 days before coming out one morning and then suddenly falling apart (a squirt of water from a feeding pipette causing its tentacles to fall off. Currently I'm two days into it hiding within the rock work and ready fearing the worst.
Acclimated by floating 20 mins followed by 1 hour drip acclimation (1-2 drops per second)
My tank is a taller 40 gallon from Lifegard Aquatics: 29.53″ x 17.72″ x 17.72″
I have two IceCap 2K gyres at either end of my tank. They run on a 1 minute sine wave cycle ranging from 25-40% intensity. Flow alternates between sides, with the opposite side running in reverse. I'll attach a video of it moving in the flow before it retreated into the rockwork.
I run two AI Prime 16HDs about 10 inches above my water line using BRS' AB+ settings at about 70% intensity.
Temperature is usually between 77.5-78 degrees. Occasionally it gets up to 78.2-3 and occasionally to as low as 76.5.
Currently my paremeters look like this:
Specific gravity ~1.025
dKH ~9 / pH 8.0
Calcium 375-400 ppm (somewhere in that range, but stable)
Magnesium ~1400 ppm
Nitrate <1 ppm
Phosphate 70 ppb
I believe these are pretty stable as my readings have always been in this range for the past ~1.5 years.
At night I run a Chaeto refugium for pH stability and nutrient absorption. I also have a small skimmer that I run pretty much 24/7.
At some point after the first anemone died I ran a Triton test on my water.
The results indicated:
* Detected aluminum (22 ug/l), but no flags for unwanted heavy metals metals
* Calcium/alk/phosphate consistent with my test kits
* The following values for things I do not have tests for:
I have a fairly well established FOWLR tank I've been trying to add a bubble tip to. The tank has been up for 2 years and was intended to be all nem/no coral.
I originally tried about a year and a half in. What had happened was that the anemone was out and bubbled up for about 1.5-2 days before retreating into my rock work. It did this for 3-4 days before coming out one morning and then suddenly falling apart (a squirt of water from a feeding pipette causing its tentacles to fall off. Currently I'm two days into it hiding within the rock work and ready fearing the worst.
Acclimated by floating 20 mins followed by 1 hour drip acclimation (1-2 drops per second)
My tank is a taller 40 gallon from Lifegard Aquatics: 29.53″ x 17.72″ x 17.72″
I have two IceCap 2K gyres at either end of my tank. They run on a 1 minute sine wave cycle ranging from 25-40% intensity. Flow alternates between sides, with the opposite side running in reverse. I'll attach a video of it moving in the flow before it retreated into the rockwork.
I run two AI Prime 16HDs about 10 inches above my water line using BRS' AB+ settings at about 70% intensity.
Temperature is usually between 77.5-78 degrees. Occasionally it gets up to 78.2-3 and occasionally to as low as 76.5.
Currently my paremeters look like this:
Specific gravity ~1.025
dKH ~9 / pH 8.0
Calcium 375-400 ppm (somewhere in that range, but stable)
Magnesium ~1400 ppm
Nitrate <1 ppm
Phosphate 70 ppb
I believe these are pretty stable as my readings have always been in this range for the past ~1.5 years.
At night I run a Chaeto refugium for pH stability and nutrient absorption. I also have a small skimmer that I run pretty much 24/7.
At some point after the first anemone died I ran a Triton test on my water.
The results indicated:
* Detected aluminum (22 ug/l), but no flags for unwanted heavy metals metals
* Calcium/alk/phosphate consistent with my test kits
* The following values for things I do not have tests for:
Element | Name | Analysis | Setpoint | Unit | Warning level | Group |
K | Potassium | 310 | 380 - 480 | mg/l | red | Macro-Elements |
Br | Bromide | 84 | 62 | mg/l | yellow | Macro-Elements |
B | Boron | 4.39 | 4.5 | mg/l | Macro-Elements | |
Sr | Strontium | 10.49 | 8 - 12 | mg/l | Macro-Elements | |
S | Sulphur | 777 | 900 | mg/l | Macro-Elements | |
Li | Lithium | 334 | 200 | µg/l | red | Li-Group |
Ni | Nickel | 0 | 5 | µg/l | Li-Group | |
Mo | Molybdenum | 4.88 | 12 | µg/l | Li-Group | |
V | Vanadium | 0 | 0 - 3 | µg/l | I-Group | |
Zn | Zinc | 5.85 | 0 - 5 | µg/l | I-Group | |
Mn | Manganese | 0 | 0 - 3 | µg/l | I-Group | |
I | Iodine | 14 | 30 - 90 | µg/l | yellow | I-Group |
Cr | Chromium | 0 | 0 | µg/l | Fe-Group | |
Co | Cobalt | 0 | 0 | µg/l | Fe-Group | |
Fe | Iron | 0 | 0 | µg/l | Fe-Group | |
Ba | Barium | 76 | 0 - 10 | µg/l | yellow | Ba-Group |
Be | Beryllium | 0 | 0 | µg/l | Ba-Group | |
Si | Silicon | 124 | 0 - 200 | µg/l | Si-Group |
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