Need help!

[coachellaReefer]

I’ve been trying to keep anemone in my reef tank for the past 6 months and they all bleached and turned pink...I aclámate them for 1 hour before introducing them in the tank and just place them where I think they will have the lighting and flow they need and they don’t move from the first spot I place them but after 1-2 weeks they bleach and shrink I need advice or most common reason this happens please.
Alkalinity:9
Calcium:460
Magnesium:1250
Salinity:1.024
PH:don’t test
Phosphate:don’t test



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[ycnibrc]

How old is your tank? What other Corals do u have? What kind of light? How big is your tank?


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[hersheyb]

How old is the tank? Also... how much light are they getting?

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[coachellaReefer]

How old is your tank? What other Corals do u have? What kind of light? How big is your tank?


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It is 16 months old
I keep torches,hammers,frogspawn,acans,mushrooms,blastos,favia,montipora,some sps,trachyphyllia,acanthophyllia,cynarina,and zoanthids
It’s a 55 gallon with a 10 gallon sump
I have 2 RedSea LED 50’s and 2 ATI T5


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[coachellaReefer]

Everything else thrives


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[coachellaReefer]

How old is the tank? Also... how much light are they getting?

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The nem gets 200-250 par


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[ycnibrc]

All of the corals u listed are low light corals. Anemone need intense lighting. If you want to keep anemone u need to update your light.


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[coachellaReefer]

All of the corals u listed are low light corals. Anemone need intense lighting. If you want to keep anemone u need to update your light.


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But how come they shrink into their whole where they have their root like if the light was too intense? Also I keep sps and they are doing good


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[ycnibrc]

If u said u have 2xt5 and 2xled bar then your light out put can't be high. Your Sps is on top therefore it might receive enough light. Anemone mostly stay at the bottom plus it hide inside the rock work. Your light at the bottom of the tank is weak. May be to verify ask someone to lend you a par meter then measure where the anemone stay then u will know.


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[coachellaReefer]

If u said u have 2xt5 and 2xled bar then your light out put can't be high. Your Sps is on top therefore it might receive enough light. Anemone mostly stay at the bottom plus it hide inside the rock work. Your light at the bottom of the tank is weak. May be to verify ask someone to lend you a par meter then measure where the anemone stay then u will know.


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The nem is at around 70% at the top of the tank where the sps are plus it’s located almost directly under the LED it’s not a bar it a cube shape could it be that my water is too clean?


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[sharkbait]

I’ve keep plenty of anemones with only t5 so I doubt it the lightning

 

[ycnibrc]

With 2 bulb?


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[bvysochin]

Nitrate and phosphate readings are probably some of the most important ones you need.

 

[coachellaReefer]

Nitrate and phosphate readings are probably some of the most important ones you need.

Everything else is doing good tho


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[Emac909]

Nitrate and phosphate readings are probably some of the most important ones you need.

Was thinking the same as well as at least knowing a ball park range of your pH swings.

In my tank my no3 is unreadable and po4 is at 0.01. The corals don’t look the best but the 4 nems in the tank have never looked better.

 

[pledosophy]

It's not the light, in my opinion. I have bred hundreds of anemones with less light. It was very common for me to breed nems with minimal lighting. I kept them under spiral CF bulbs for 3-6 weeks after cutting them. I have had rubbermaids with 20 nems and two compact spiral bulbs. Nems can get nutrition from light, but they also need food. Food is way more important IME.

Also IME, the light is not making them retract either. Bright light, low light, medium light, window light, blue light, it's like a Dr. Seuss book, they are fine with whatever light if they have food.

What are you feeding them? Do they eat? How much do they eat? How long until they spit it back out if they do eat?

What is your temperature?

To clean of water is not good for the type of tank you have.

Your alk is at 9. Is it steady at nine? Does it fluctuate during the week? What are you dosing to keep it stable, if it is stable. How is that being dosed? Where is that being dosed?

If your other corals are all open, I doubt it is pH, but it's starting to cool down in the valley, maybe open a window at night and see if they perk up.

Most nems are far less picky then people make them out to be IME.

 

[jhnnle01]

I agree with checking phosphate level. My nems shrinks when phosphate rises

 

[Sonia8566]

I think its prob the new red sea 50 light. Too strong if the anemone is right under it. What percentage is it at? I've also noticed if the nitritrates and phosphates are super low to none and alk is high, some corals won't thrive.

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[happaman]

I agree with the Red Sea light being too intense and that feeding is the key. I slowly acclimated 2 tanks (nems, various coral) slowly to AI this year. Still bleached some acans, goni and frogspawn. I've kept nems under t-8s back in the day (20+ years ago) following GARF's approach. But had great success under Iwasaki halides. Propagated hundreds in dirty water so it's possible your water is too clean.