Steve Bullington
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Question about my BTA
So I recently found out my BTA is from the ocean and not tank raised. It is supposed to be a green one, it had a slight green Hugh to it. It still does, I think it's slightly bleached. I know wild BTA take awhile to adjust to high intensity lights. I have had it for roughly 1 month. It started off moving all over the tank and literally did laps. The BTA has been here for 3 weeks, it seams happy and will except food. There is NO direct light on it what so ever. The pic is hard to show depth but it's 2 to 3 inch under my Montipora. It's a huge Montipora for this tank 14x8 or so. My clown is about 2.5 to 3" and recently lost his ( soon to be her ) mate. So I know they go where they want etc. Any addvice ? Should I help it along in movement? Break my Montipora up? Let nature take its course etc? Just throwing ideas out there good and bad. I aslo have picked up 3 other that are Rose tips, one may be a rainbow. Anyways I want to get all my nems straight before I add more clown fish. I'm turning my tank into a harem tank and will be adding 7 to 12 more Clowns.
Tank: about 50 gallon
Age : 3.5 years
Equipment :Built in Refugium, protein skimmer, ATO, grow light in refugium, 1 kessil A350 ( I like this light better, but it's manual) tuna blue, 1 kessil A360 WE tuna blue, external canister filter rated for 100gallon tank, jebao eco propeller pump.
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 0
pH: 8.3
Specific Gravity: 1.025
Phosphate: 0
KH ( now this is odd) I use 2 different test kits from same manufacturers and get different results. API REEF MASTER TEST KIT ( dkh 10 or 179ppm) now the test strips read at 240+ ppm KH
So I recently found out my BTA is from the ocean and not tank raised. It is supposed to be a green one, it had a slight green Hugh to it. It still does, I think it's slightly bleached. I know wild BTA take awhile to adjust to high intensity lights. I have had it for roughly 1 month. It started off moving all over the tank and literally did laps. The BTA has been here for 3 weeks, it seams happy and will except food. There is NO direct light on it what so ever. The pic is hard to show depth but it's 2 to 3 inch under my Montipora. It's a huge Montipora for this tank 14x8 or so. My clown is about 2.5 to 3" and recently lost his ( soon to be her ) mate. So I know they go where they want etc. Any addvice ? Should I help it along in movement? Break my Montipora up? Let nature take its course etc? Just throwing ideas out there good and bad. I aslo have picked up 3 other that are Rose tips, one may be a rainbow. Anyways I want to get all my nems straight before I add more clown fish. I'm turning my tank into a harem tank and will be adding 7 to 12 more Clowns.
Tank: about 50 gallon
Age : 3.5 years
Equipment :Built in Refugium, protein skimmer, ATO, grow light in refugium, 1 kessil A350 ( I like this light better, but it's manual) tuna blue, 1 kessil A360 WE tuna blue, external canister filter rated for 100gallon tank, jebao eco propeller pump.
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 0
pH: 8.3
Specific Gravity: 1.025
Phosphate: 0
KH ( now this is odd) I use 2 different test kits from same manufacturers and get different results. API REEF MASTER TEST KIT ( dkh 10 or 179ppm) now the test strips read at 240+ ppm KH
