Anenome Trouble

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Hey Guys and Gal's
Im probably going to get chewed out by someone for something but thats why im here is to learn.

I have an anenome that use to be really nice in color a deep red bubble up maybe not big bubbles but they did swell up. now its slowly loosing its tenticls i havent seen how they come off i dont have hermits or crabs that will rip them off so im at a lost there im not sure if its pinching them off itself its its able to do that. its also not just slowly loosing its tentecls its slowly look like its dulling in color and getting smaller. now iv seen stressed anenomes they gap really wide and expose there insides but these guys isnt doing that ever. iv been told that these guys dont need to feed often or at all that they would do fine with not feeding is this true? i know if you feed them they will grow faster and split or get huge . im just kind of at a lost why its not looking so good iv been looking all over the web and trying to do some research but its hard to narrow it down. any help would be welcome or suggestion

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Tank: aquapod 24 gallon
i have a 4 bulb t5ho fixture with 2 blue one coral plus and a purple thats around 94 watts. I also have 2 panorama blue leds over my tank as well. Do these give off any needed light the corals will need or is it all looks?
I run filter floss with chemi-pure and purigen
Run my lights from 10 am till about 3;30 i turn off my t5ho and leave just the leds on tull about 6-7 at night then turn those off.
I keep up on my water changes i do a 2.5 to 5 gall water change about every 5 -7 days.
 

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and on a side note everything else in my tank has been doing really well i have some frogspawn, torchs, shrooms alot of zoas, gsp, yumas a giant carpet. and nothings died in my tank in a long time.
 
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Hmmm... nah man sounds like you've done some research always good to ask questions no matter what.

Anyways, I'm sort of thinking you have too much light rather than not enough. Those panaramas are more powerful than you think... and 4 t5s over that tank honestly seems like plenty. What other corals do you keep. Lets see some pics.
 

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o **** pic time my worst subject, i cant take pics for crap. you guys make it look easy. ill see what i can do ill try and post some in an hour or so.
 
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Anything is better than nothing... do your best otherwise we are just guessing... and even with a pic we are probably just guessing but at least thats a starting point.
 
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I would guess bad water parameters. I don't think it would be too much lighting. If it was too much lighting or too much flow, the Nem would move to a place that it was happy.

Do a big water change


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Emac I know you have your nem tank going, what alk level would you recommend or what level have you noticed your corals and nems to be at there happiest. and any other suggestions?

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you can see my one is alright just long tenticls but my other one has been small and its tenticles are reseeding and i have noticed a few loose ones randomly flow by not often but every once in a while.
 
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Emac I know you have your nem tank going, what alk level would you recommend or what level have you noticed your corals and nems to be at there happiest. and any other suggestions?

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I like my alk around 10. I think I had the best coral growth with an alk of 10.5 and cal at 425 and mag at 1340.
 
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