Hi all,
This is an awesome site and looking forward to becoming a supporting member.
I wanted to introduce myself and hopefully clarify a couple things I was unsure of.
First, I would like to say how cool I think the goal of this site is!
I started reefing when I was 15, and kept at it until about 17/18. I wasn’t able to continue the hobby in college, so I donated my tank to my high school. Fast forward 13 years, I jumped back into the hobby about 4-5 months ago. It has been really exciting to see learn about all the new tools at my disposal. Here is a link to my imgur album with pictures of the frags, tank, and parameters. Please let me know if this an acceptable way of posting this information. It is typically how I post to reddit and am not 100% if it is proper protocol for these forums. Imgur Tank Stats
I was lurking on the don’t break the chain forums and noticed someone said they wanted a tank journal. What exactly is in a tank journal?
Are there any particular tips people suggest for new profiles? Would love to hear some things I could do to improve my profile in needed.
Lastly, for about a month I have been having trouble with a rose bubble tip anemone. I’ve posted on multiple sites and tried to seek possible answers, but so far I haven’t made any progress. I would be happy to link those reef2reef and reddit posts, but I am not sure if that is against the rules, so I will leave them out for now.
Below is a imgur album of the anemone through time.
Feb 2020 - This is a picture of when the nem established itself near the top of the tank. It stayed this way for a little over a month. Towards the end of March it began to deflate and I could constantly see the white parts inside of its mouth.
4/28/2020 - I thought it was going to be dead within a few days, so I put it in a specimen box to isolate it. A little bit of orange cane back after three days, so I let it loose again.
05/20/2020 - compared to when I thought it was going to die, it is still surviving(ish). Looks terrible and constantly deflated to the size of a quarter daily while expelling waste of zooanthelle. Not sure how to tell the difference. I see the whites of inside it’s mouth more frequently.
I am out of ideas of what could be causing it to deteriorate, but not die. I would love to save it because it was a beautiful anemone. Any help would be appreciated.
My historical tank stats up to today are in my link above.
Current stats
Alk: fluctuates between 9.3-9.7 through out the day.
cal: 480
Mag: 1600
Salinity: 1.026 - 34.9ppt
Ammonia: 0ppm
Nitrate: 8ppm
Phos: Flucates daily between .015-.05
Protein skimmer: runs slightly wet
Refugium: Chateo
Dosing
4ml NOPOX (started beginning of May)
Copepods
Phytoplankton
12ml Esv 2 part alk
12ml esv 2 part calcium
4ml Red Sea coral nutrition a
4ml Red Sea coral nutrition b
Weird stuff
I have been dosing iron at 6-8ml for 5 of the last 7 days. My thought it the cheato is stripping it out of the water, but I can’t be sure. Either way the tests keep reporting less than .15 ppm iron. In total over the last week I have dosed about 36ml in total. I saw no difference in the Red Sea test. I stopped dosing today, because I started to get nervous the test is wrong. I never dose without measuring. Since then the anemone has moved deep into the rock work out of the light. That made me think it is sensitive to the change in iron, but does nothing to explain its deterioration since I only started dosing that last week.
sorry for the wall of text and happy to repost this somewhere more appropriate. Just point me in the right direction .
Looking forward to talking with everyone here, have a great day!
This is an awesome site and looking forward to becoming a supporting member.
I wanted to introduce myself and hopefully clarify a couple things I was unsure of.
First, I would like to say how cool I think the goal of this site is!
I started reefing when I was 15, and kept at it until about 17/18. I wasn’t able to continue the hobby in college, so I donated my tank to my high school. Fast forward 13 years, I jumped back into the hobby about 4-5 months ago. It has been really exciting to see learn about all the new tools at my disposal. Here is a link to my imgur album with pictures of the frags, tank, and parameters. Please let me know if this an acceptable way of posting this information. It is typically how I post to reddit and am not 100% if it is proper protocol for these forums. Imgur Tank Stats
I was lurking on the don’t break the chain forums and noticed someone said they wanted a tank journal. What exactly is in a tank journal?
Are there any particular tips people suggest for new profiles? Would love to hear some things I could do to improve my profile in needed.
Lastly, for about a month I have been having trouble with a rose bubble tip anemone. I’ve posted on multiple sites and tried to seek possible answers, but so far I haven’t made any progress. I would be happy to link those reef2reef and reddit posts, but I am not sure if that is against the rules, so I will leave them out for now.
Below is a imgur album of the anemone through time.
Feb 2020 - This is a picture of when the nem established itself near the top of the tank. It stayed this way for a little over a month. Towards the end of March it began to deflate and I could constantly see the white parts inside of its mouth.
4/28/2020 - I thought it was going to be dead within a few days, so I put it in a specimen box to isolate it. A little bit of orange cane back after three days, so I let it loose again.
05/20/2020 - compared to when I thought it was going to die, it is still surviving(ish). Looks terrible and constantly deflated to the size of a quarter daily while expelling waste of zooanthelle. Not sure how to tell the difference. I see the whites of inside it’s mouth more frequently.
I am out of ideas of what could be causing it to deteriorate, but not die. I would love to save it because it was a beautiful anemone. Any help would be appreciated.
My historical tank stats up to today are in my link above.
Current stats
Alk: fluctuates between 9.3-9.7 through out the day.
cal: 480
Mag: 1600
Salinity: 1.026 - 34.9ppt
Ammonia: 0ppm
Nitrate: 8ppm
Phos: Flucates daily between .015-.05
Protein skimmer: runs slightly wet
Refugium: Chateo
Dosing
4ml NOPOX (started beginning of May)
Copepods
Phytoplankton
12ml Esv 2 part alk
12ml esv 2 part calcium
4ml Red Sea coral nutrition a
4ml Red Sea coral nutrition b
Weird stuff
I have been dosing iron at 6-8ml for 5 of the last 7 days. My thought it the cheato is stripping it out of the water, but I can’t be sure. Either way the tests keep reporting less than .15 ppm iron. In total over the last week I have dosed about 36ml in total. I saw no difference in the Red Sea test. I stopped dosing today, because I started to get nervous the test is wrong. I never dose without measuring. Since then the anemone has moved deep into the rock work out of the light. That made me think it is sensitive to the change in iron, but does nothing to explain its deterioration since I only started dosing that last week.
sorry for the wall of text and happy to repost this somewhere more appropriate. Just point me in the right direction .
Looking forward to talking with everyone here, have a great day!