Hi All
New to saltwater and reef here. I have a 20G aquarium that is about 7 months (a little over). Almost two weeks ago I added 2 flower anemones and a leather (in addition to a ploy I added about two months in and a long tentical anemone around 5-6 months).
The long tentical and poly are doing great, though I feel the ploy doesn’t extend as fully as it did in the shops tank. The leather and flower nems were doing pretty well in week one but I noticed around the end of the first week they didn’t seem as full or “clean?” as when I first put them in. Moving up to now, two weeks later, and they just look sad. The leather has shrunk up to about 1/4 of its size when I first got it, one of the flower nems won’t come out of the hole he moved to, and the other flower nem (the one who arguable looks the best) as moved down to the sand bed and just isn’t fully spread.
Tank Details:
2 clowns (neither hosting)
3 snails
2 hermit crabs
1 anemone crab (hosting)
A Kessil A80 Tuna Blue with the controller added and set to the Auto Tuna Blue programming
HOB Fluval Filter
Protein Skimmer
Surface Skimmer (only runs occasionally)
Small wave maker
Parameters As Of Today:
Calcium (460 but the past three weeks of readings it swings between 400 - 465ish)
Mag: 1440 and stays around there with almost no swings
Alk: 9.2 (stays pretty stable between 9-9.5)
Salinity: 1.025 (some minor swings up to just below 1.030 due to vap but stays pretty stable between RODI and salt RODI)
PH: 8.0 (doesn’t move much from there and haven’t used any reef buffer because I want alk stable and don’t wanna param chase 0.4 PH unless necessary)
Phosphate: 0
Nitrite: 0
Ammonia: Usually 0 with a few swings up to 0.25 (today the color was between 0 and 0.25). Usually corrects itself or the weekly small water changes corrects it.
Nitrates: Usually 0 to 5.0. Today it was a little above 0 but not near the 5.0 color. Correction same as ammonia.
Flower nem pics attached. Let me know if I forgot to include a detail that might help.
TIA!
New to saltwater and reef here. I have a 20G aquarium that is about 7 months (a little over). Almost two weeks ago I added 2 flower anemones and a leather (in addition to a ploy I added about two months in and a long tentical anemone around 5-6 months).
The long tentical and poly are doing great, though I feel the ploy doesn’t extend as fully as it did in the shops tank. The leather and flower nems were doing pretty well in week one but I noticed around the end of the first week they didn’t seem as full or “clean?” as when I first put them in. Moving up to now, two weeks later, and they just look sad. The leather has shrunk up to about 1/4 of its size when I first got it, one of the flower nems won’t come out of the hole he moved to, and the other flower nem (the one who arguable looks the best) as moved down to the sand bed and just isn’t fully spread.
Tank Details:
2 clowns (neither hosting)
3 snails
2 hermit crabs
1 anemone crab (hosting)
A Kessil A80 Tuna Blue with the controller added and set to the Auto Tuna Blue programming
HOB Fluval Filter
Protein Skimmer
Surface Skimmer (only runs occasionally)
Small wave maker
Parameters As Of Today:
Calcium (460 but the past three weeks of readings it swings between 400 - 465ish)
Mag: 1440 and stays around there with almost no swings
Alk: 9.2 (stays pretty stable between 9-9.5)
Salinity: 1.025 (some minor swings up to just below 1.030 due to vap but stays pretty stable between RODI and salt RODI)
PH: 8.0 (doesn’t move much from there and haven’t used any reef buffer because I want alk stable and don’t wanna param chase 0.4 PH unless necessary)
Phosphate: 0
Nitrite: 0
Ammonia: Usually 0 with a few swings up to 0.25 (today the color was between 0 and 0.25). Usually corrects itself or the weekly small water changes corrects it.
Nitrates: Usually 0 to 5.0. Today it was a little above 0 but not near the 5.0 color. Correction same as ammonia.
Flower nem pics attached. Let me know if I forgot to include a detail that might help.
TIA!