flanque
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Hi,
Recently, say over the past month or two my anemones have become lifeless, usually closed or very deflated, or just sort of scrunched up.
Admittingly my CA was about 90mg/L off "ideal" and my KH got down to 120-140, however I have since corrected this and they are at "ideal" levels. The problem is that my anemones which usually are out and open and nice, look well, crap.
I have done two water changes of around 30% each, with a fortnight in between (this was about a fortnight ago) and cannot think of anything to cause this, except for a couple of things which I would like your advice on:
1. I went to the bait shop and got some frozen prawns, broke one in half and gave half each to an anemone. They both closed over on it and the fish picked at what was hanging out (and they are okay still).
2. I added a protein skimmer which has done nothing but remove all my cyno bacteria algae and does collect a decent sample of sludge on a regular basis.
3. My lights are about six or so months old. This is what I primarily think it is. They are just two three foot 35watt NO fluros, one white one actinic.
4. My pre-filter pad hasn't been changed in about a month. Slack on my part yes, but hasn't caused problems in the past.
I have a number of fish in there and they are all fine without any signs of discomfort, but then again perhaps they have developed a tollerence? I also have probably around 20 corilamorphs of different size and they are wide open, impressively in fact. I also have a nudi coral (see my gallery) which is usually quite tough, but is also suffering from whatever is going on.
Oh, my pH was also about 8.0 but I have also since bought that up to 8.2 over a about a week using an appropriate buffer.
Can anyone cast their eyes over what this might be and offer suggestions? I am happy to answer any additional questions and test water qualities, etc.
My first thought is definately the lights but I am assured by others "who know" that twelve months should be when I replace them, not six. There's a degree of trust there also, as the assistant who seems very much on her game, turned down an $80 sale for a $3 sale of prawn bait. Either she was incredibly stupid or plain honest.
Thanks in advance.
Recently, say over the past month or two my anemones have become lifeless, usually closed or very deflated, or just sort of scrunched up.
Admittingly my CA was about 90mg/L off "ideal" and my KH got down to 120-140, however I have since corrected this and they are at "ideal" levels. The problem is that my anemones which usually are out and open and nice, look well, crap.
I have done two water changes of around 30% each, with a fortnight in between (this was about a fortnight ago) and cannot think of anything to cause this, except for a couple of things which I would like your advice on:
1. I went to the bait shop and got some frozen prawns, broke one in half and gave half each to an anemone. They both closed over on it and the fish picked at what was hanging out (and they are okay still).
2. I added a protein skimmer which has done nothing but remove all my cyno bacteria algae and does collect a decent sample of sludge on a regular basis.
3. My lights are about six or so months old. This is what I primarily think it is. They are just two three foot 35watt NO fluros, one white one actinic.
4. My pre-filter pad hasn't been changed in about a month. Slack on my part yes, but hasn't caused problems in the past.
I have a number of fish in there and they are all fine without any signs of discomfort, but then again perhaps they have developed a tollerence? I also have probably around 20 corilamorphs of different size and they are wide open, impressively in fact. I also have a nudi coral (see my gallery) which is usually quite tough, but is also suffering from whatever is going on.
Oh, my pH was also about 8.0 but I have also since bought that up to 8.2 over a about a week using an appropriate buffer.
Can anyone cast their eyes over what this might be and offer suggestions? I am happy to answer any additional questions and test water qualities, etc.
My first thought is definately the lights but I am assured by others "who know" that twelve months should be when I replace them, not six. There's a degree of trust there also, as the assistant who seems very much on her game, turned down an $80 sale for a $3 sale of prawn bait. Either she was incredibly stupid or plain honest.
Thanks in advance.
it was set up on the the 5/11/04. there is 600lbs of live rock from the Great Barrier Reef. my mini reef i designed myself, the tank has dual overflow chambers which fall into seperate ends of the reef. The right side has been regulated to flow slower than the left side to allow extended time in which the water flows through the media. the media is as follows split in half, equal amounts on both sides of the mini reef. the media includes approx 2000 bio balls, 10 boxes of fluval "bio max" ceremic noodles and 20litres of Seachem "matrix". current inhabitants of the tank include: 1x Mimic tang (juvenille) Acanthurus pyroferus 1x Blk and yellow damsel (juvenille) .Neoglyphidodon nigroris 1x Yellow Damsel. Pomacentrus moluccensis 2x Ocellaris clowns. Amphiprion ocellaris 2x Flame Angels. Centropyge loriculus 1x un-identified anenome????? and approx 20 assorted corals which i will list when i can id them.
