Patzig
welp, that didn't work..
Need help from the pros once again. Ok, a friend got me a rose bubble tip anemone. It was great for about a month. Then over the next few weeks it started to look not so healthy. One side melted down to brown stuff, but other side still looked ok. It hid in the rocks for a few days after that, and I almost took him out. But now it he is opening back up and it almost looks as if it is healing itself. The side that had melted, is now spawning new tentacles.
While all this was going on, all the other corals in my tank had also started to look "not as healthy", especially the softies. I originally thought that it was possibly nitrates or phosphates that were causing my corals AND my anemone to become unhealthy. But I had a full water test at the LFS today and here's the results:
Salinity 1.021 - low I know, I will slowly bring it up
Phosphates - .03 ppm
ph - 8.2
alk - 8 - I will bring this up too
Ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 0
calcium - 400 ppm
magnesium - 1050 - also low, I will be dosing slowly to bring up
The lady at the LFS suggested that my anemone could have been dying thus possibly poisoning my other corals. AHH!!! So now I need to know if I should leave the anemone alone and hopefully it will continue to look better/heal itself. Or should I set up a QT for the anemone in hopes of healing the anemone and also protecting the rest of my tank?
Here's a picture of the anemone currently:
Also, all fish are perfectly fine and healthy. Any help would be awesome, thank you.
While all this was going on, all the other corals in my tank had also started to look "not as healthy", especially the softies. I originally thought that it was possibly nitrates or phosphates that were causing my corals AND my anemone to become unhealthy. But I had a full water test at the LFS today and here's the results:
Salinity 1.021 - low I know, I will slowly bring it up
Phosphates - .03 ppm
ph - 8.2
alk - 8 - I will bring this up too
Ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 0
calcium - 400 ppm
magnesium - 1050 - also low, I will be dosing slowly to bring up
The lady at the LFS suggested that my anemone could have been dying thus possibly poisoning my other corals. AHH!!! So now I need to know if I should leave the anemone alone and hopefully it will continue to look better/heal itself. Or should I set up a QT for the anemone in hopes of healing the anemone and also protecting the rest of my tank?
Here's a picture of the anemone currently:
Also, all fish are perfectly fine and healthy. Any help would be awesome, thank you.