Can someone tell me what's wrong

[Scottkutanzi]

Can someone tell me what's wrong with my anemone and branching hammer. ImageUploadedByTapatalk1447714405.857131.jpgImageUploadedByTapatalk1447714416.279151.jpg


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[Aquattro]

Can't see any anemone, but the hammer looks dead

[Scottkutanzi]

In the first pic the small pink dot


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[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by Scottkutanzi

In the first pic the small pink dot


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Then I'd guess it's not far behind the hammer

The pic looks dark, I hope you have lots of light on it? Clean water? It was big and healthy when you got it? It fed? Not too much direct current?

Really, not much to advise based on poor quality pic, but I'd say it's not good.

[Aquattro]

My personal favorite article on anemones

http://www.carlosreef.com/AnemoneFAQ.pdf

[mihaivapler]

How old is your tank?

[Howie]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

My personal favorite article on anemones

http://www.carlosreef.com/AnemoneFAQ.pdf

Love the article, has lots of info in it Thanks for sharing

[Scottkutanzi]

My tank is been running for a year. The anemone was healthy looking when I bought it. I just changed out a crushed coral substrate for a sugar sand substrate. From all the forums I read everyone said the crushed coral was bad for nitrates and my nitrates were high. I'm thinking that is what killed my branching hammer and anemone


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[rsisvixen]

It depends how you did the change over of substrate, by removing it a lot of trapped stuff probably went into your water column and spiked nitrate, adding new substrate would have started a mini cycle so probably a small spike in ammonia.
So if everything was well before the change then the change of substrate is probably to blame

[Myka]

In his other thread I can see the hammer was dead before he changed the sand, but I don't see the anemone in the pic.