rmud
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My dad recently introduced a BTA to our first ever marine aquarium and I'm not sure how it's doing.
First of all, the tank (80L) itself is around 8 weeks old and its parameters are listed below:
Nitrates 50+ ppm (I know this is insanely high but we are in the process of removing nitrates with BioNitratEx for 2 weeks now)
Nitrites 0-1ppm
Ammonia 0ppm
The tank has two t5 lamps and one blue lamp. We leave the t5 lamps on from 12am- 4pm and the blue lights one from 4pm-11pm.
Our tank consists of one piece of coral (I'll attach a picture of it because I don't know what type it is) and a green chromis- both of which were introduced to our tank 7 weeks ago- they seem to be doing well.
We introduced the bta 3 days ago- it wondered around for a solid 8 hours before finally attaching itself to our live rock and its foot seems securely attached and not damaged.
My concern is that it's mouth seems to be protruding or quite puffy sometimes (if you can imagine a person with pursed lips then that's how it looks like). Also, it's tentacles tend to become very thin and it will start to close up- especially around an hour or two before the blue lamp turns off for the night. Yesterday it started closing up before it released two short brown strings (I couldn't see if these came out of its mouth, they were kinda wrapped around its tentacles). Around half an hour later it was kinda back to normal (I.e. Inflated but not as inflated as in the picture down below). Is this normal..? I'm not sure if it's dying or digesting food or just pooping!
I've read one too many horror stories of anemones wreaking havoc when they die and I've worked so hard to cycle our water that I would like to avoid starting over. I know that we probably shouldn't have gotten an anemone this early but my dad isn't as patient as me.. :/
Any help/ advice would be kindly appreciated!
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First of all, the tank (80L) itself is around 8 weeks old and its parameters are listed below:
Nitrates 50+ ppm (I know this is insanely high but we are in the process of removing nitrates with BioNitratEx for 2 weeks now)
Nitrites 0-1ppm
Ammonia 0ppm
The tank has two t5 lamps and one blue lamp. We leave the t5 lamps on from 12am- 4pm and the blue lights one from 4pm-11pm.
Our tank consists of one piece of coral (I'll attach a picture of it because I don't know what type it is) and a green chromis- both of which were introduced to our tank 7 weeks ago- they seem to be doing well.
We introduced the bta 3 days ago- it wondered around for a solid 8 hours before finally attaching itself to our live rock and its foot seems securely attached and not damaged.
My concern is that it's mouth seems to be protruding or quite puffy sometimes (if you can imagine a person with pursed lips then that's how it looks like). Also, it's tentacles tend to become very thin and it will start to close up- especially around an hour or two before the blue lamp turns off for the night. Yesterday it started closing up before it released two short brown strings (I couldn't see if these came out of its mouth, they were kinda wrapped around its tentacles). Around half an hour later it was kinda back to normal (I.e. Inflated but not as inflated as in the picture down below). Is this normal..? I'm not sure if it's dying or digesting food or just pooping!
I've read one too many horror stories of anemones wreaking havoc when they die and I've worked so hard to cycle our water that I would like to avoid starting over. I know that we probably shouldn't have gotten an anemone this early but my dad isn't as patient as me.. :/
Any help/ advice would be kindly appreciated!
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