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[Keri]

Nice pics and neat anemone

[fishytime]

Your tank looks like it brand new. When was it set up?

[moldrik]

Late October.
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Honda NU50M

[fishytime]

Looks good so far. To soon for a nem IMO. Good luck with it.

[moldrik]

Anemone seems to be doing ok, I came to work right now and noticed the mushrooms closed up a decent ammount, is this normal overnight?

It's a lavender type, mushroom:
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/p...872&pcatid=872

I fed them yesterday a blend of mysis shrimp, algea and flake food.
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Buell RR1000

[moldrik]

One of the clownfish is swimming a bit laboured. He seems to stick around a lot to the same area and just hang around there. The other guy is much more active and from time to time, he seems to bump into the other guy to get him moving. Not sure if it's anything to worry about. They were swimming much more actively yesterday though.
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Honda CL77

[moldrik]

I also had added some flakes and some mysis shrimp to the tank yesterday, they didn't eat the flakes like I posted above. Today, I saw them try to eat a mysis but spat it right out, also the ammonia level has kicked up a bit ( still really low )due to the left over dead food, so i don't want to add anymore. Do you guys have any suggestions in regards to balancing out the feeding attempts / possible ammonia increases.
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Honda XL100

[mike31154]

Originally Posted by fishytime

Your tank looks like it brand new. When was it set up?

Yes, nice pics for sure. Not sure but it doesn't seem like there's a lot of water movement happening in there. And is that your heater laying in the bottom? I would advise getting the top of the heater out of the water. I know many are supposedly fully submersible, but I just don't trust that with my life.

Members will be better able to advise you if you elaborate a little more on your set-up. Specifically tank size, volume, sump or sumpless, water movement etc.

[moldrik]

Originally Posted by mike31154

Ammonia level detectable? Yoiks. Sounds like your set up hasn't completely cycled yet. Could be bad news for the livestock. You might want to prepare for some water changes.

This could be me being a dolt, but the nutrafin/hagen test comes out like a clear, bright yellow color. < 0.6

Originally Posted by mike31154

Not sure but it doesn't seem like there's a lot of water movement happening in there. And is that your heater laying in the bottom? I would advise getting the top of the heater out of the water. I know many are supposedly fully submersible, but I just don't trust that with my life.

Members will be better able to advise you if you elaborate a little more on your set-up. Specifically tank size, volume, sump or sumpless, water movement etc.

My tank is setup as follows:

40 Gallon, Glass
36"x18"x14" ( maybe 16" it's a 40 gallon breeder )
Sumpless
Hydor Koralia #2 ( I do agree with you, i dont find that this gives enough water flow )
Aqua C Remora ( not nano )
Hagen Filter ( 50 gal )
150 Watt Stealth Heater
My light setup is a coralife 175 Watt, 2 PC canopy
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[mike31154]

Good info. I've used mainly the API test kit for my Ammonia readings but I do have a kit by Hagen/Nutrafin too. The colour chart on the booklet for the ammonia test on my kit shows yellow/lime green as being 0 ppm. There are two charts on the booklet, one for fresh & one for salt water. The sw one has the more lime colour as 0 so you should be ok with bright yellow unless they've changed the kit. Mine was aquired used and there's no best before date on the bottles.

Apologies if I raised ammonia alarm bells for nothing. Like you already suspect, more water flow will benefit the system and you'll also want to beef up the lighting to keep your anemone healthy. Any idea wha species of anemone you have? I have a BTA for my maroon clown pair and it doesn't look anything like the one in your photo so I suspect it's a different sort. Not good with nem ids myself, other than BTAs.