Hi everyone,it is great to meet you all.My husband and I are newbies to salt water coral & fish care. Our tank is a 66 gal red reef tank about 7 months old. In my ignorance there have been casualties already. We have coral, 12 small fish,the biggest is a tomato clown, and have had 4 anemonies. Our first carpet anemonie was doing well for 2 months then hid after its clown left it for another and was found 3 days later floating DOA. Our 2nd long tenacle is doing great and growing. It has changed location after staying by rock for 2 months, then is in same area but now in the sandn Our 3rd had trouble seating,looks great now. #4 a hot pink was doing good but last 3 weeks spends part of the day all curled up tucked in the rock. Tentacles now thinner pink and purple. #5 anemonie purple blue tips had trouble seating itself, floated and swirled then partly snugged into the rock. Since 2 looked poorly i increased to using mysis shrimp cube to feed from every 3 days to daily.Nitrates went from 20 to 80 on bimonthly water change.Looked bad last 3 days but cleaning service not due for 2 days then storm delayed for 2 more. #5 died 2 days after water change.IS THERE ANY WAY TO SAVE MY STRINGY LOOKING PINK ANEMONIE.I have cut back feed to 1 cube every 3 days. Todays Nitrate was 20 ,I found Instant ocean natural nitrate reducer & used today.Any opinions on it? Any on anemonie care? THANKS
Greetings, needing sea anemonie info
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welcome to mfk. nice to meet you Linda and hubby... lol... looking forward to seeing you in the salt/marine forum... you will be learning alot and having fun too..good luck.Welcome to MFK, You will have better luck if one of the MODs would move your post into the SW section. If you could find out the actual scientific name of each anemone you own it would help out alot. I'm thinking the one with purple/blue tips was a sebae anemone. They are difficult to keep alive especially for beginners. Also each anemone probably has different needs as far as care. Some may need strong light with more water flow, while others may not do well with alot of flow. I don't know what your setup is like but if they are different species of anemone it will be very hard to care for them if they have different needs. Can you give us more information on your setup? Such as lights, protien skimmer, filter, powerheads, live rock, the more information you can give the better. Do you have pictures of you setup? What are your water parameters at? Not just nitrates but everything.