SGT_York
08/13/2013, 02:30 PM
Recent posts have made me wonder.
I have a 120G tank and purchased a healthy RBTA from a fellow reefer. The BTA split when it arrived. Both BTA's wandered and hid themselves under a rock with marginal lighting. I figured they would come out in their own time. That was late spring. Over the summer temps are ~82 degrees, I have mutliple SPS; tricolor, plumb crazy, stylophora, monti's. Some Softies, GSP, zoas, xenia. A Condi, and a crocea clam. MH lighting. The RBTA's never really came out just hiding in the indirect light, they ate just fine but begain to bleach so I have started turning their rock over (sps on top side) so they get some light however they wander back under the rock after a day or so. They are both bleached (beautiful florescent pink) and eat small items slowly. Nitrates near undetectible with salifert high end test, phosphastes <.03 again salifert. PH has tested normal with strip tests don't have a probe.
Also around the same time the xenia stopped growing. it has just remained the same not really shrunk but not grown any SPS/clam are growing fine, remaining softies are doing great.
My three ideas are temp (is which is always at 82 when I check day or night) may be just too high for the BTA. There could be a trace mineral that my tank is missing I use IO reef crystals but don't do as good of water changes as I should. Or chemical warfare, I've only read two instances where a condi/BTA didn't get along, and the Condi lost both times.
Any ideas on what I should do to proceed.
Livestock I have a PBT, foxface, clown not hosting (jerk), two firefish, two BGchromis, diamond goby, dragonet, blue legged hermits, and standard snails cerith, turbo, astrea, nassarius, 2 margaritas. Lighting are two 175 MH 10K's 7 month bulbs 8 hours, with 48" Cree royal blue LED's 10 hrs. Flow is moderate (very little under the rock) with a panworld 200 out of the sump, 8 lockline nozzles that I can point where needed. no powerheads.
I will be doing a 30G water change this weekend. Looking for other ideas that I am missing, or recommending 250MH's, powerheads, or chiller $ only enough for one currently.
Thanks in advance.
I have a 120G tank and purchased a healthy RBTA from a fellow reefer. The BTA split when it arrived. Both BTA's wandered and hid themselves under a rock with marginal lighting. I figured they would come out in their own time. That was late spring. Over the summer temps are ~82 degrees, I have mutliple SPS; tricolor, plumb crazy, stylophora, monti's. Some Softies, GSP, zoas, xenia. A Condi, and a crocea clam. MH lighting. The RBTA's never really came out just hiding in the indirect light, they ate just fine but begain to bleach so I have started turning their rock over (sps on top side) so they get some light however they wander back under the rock after a day or so. They are both bleached (beautiful florescent pink) and eat small items slowly. Nitrates near undetectible with salifert high end test, phosphastes <.03 again salifert. PH has tested normal with strip tests don't have a probe.
Also around the same time the xenia stopped growing. it has just remained the same not really shrunk but not grown any SPS/clam are growing fine, remaining softies are doing great.
My three ideas are temp (is which is always at 82 when I check day or night) may be just too high for the BTA. There could be a trace mineral that my tank is missing I use IO reef crystals but don't do as good of water changes as I should. Or chemical warfare, I've only read two instances where a condi/BTA didn't get along, and the Condi lost both times.
Any ideas on what I should do to proceed.
Livestock I have a PBT, foxface, clown not hosting (jerk), two firefish, two BGchromis, diamond goby, dragonet, blue legged hermits, and standard snails cerith, turbo, astrea, nassarius, 2 margaritas. Lighting are two 175 MH 10K's 7 month bulbs 8 hours, with 48" Cree royal blue LED's 10 hrs. Flow is moderate (very little under the rock) with a panworld 200 out of the sump, 8 lockline nozzles that I can point where needed. no powerheads.
I will be doing a 30G water change this weekend. Looking for other ideas that I am missing, or recommending 250MH's, powerheads, or chiller $ only enough for one currently.
Thanks in advance.