Condi is Gone????

jurichar

jurichar

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The wierdest thing happened this weekend. I went out of town on friday night and returned on saturday night. When i left everything was normal w/ my condi and he was in the exact same place he was in for the last 5 weeks. When i got home saturday night, he was gone...Its been 4 days and i havent seen a trace of him yet. I would think i would see something? its only a 55 so i dont think he is hiding.....What is going on here. im assuming this isnt normal and he is probably dead, but where did he go?
 
zanoshano

zanoshano

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have you checked water parameters? it coudl be just shriveled up to almost nothing. It could be anywhere, have u removed any rocs, decor, etc?
 
jurichar

jurichar

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nitrates, nitrites, ammonia are 0 and the salinity is a touch high at 1.026. This is too wierd...i figured if he died i would at least see him dead somewhere. Anyone else ever have this problem?
 
whaa...?

whaa...?

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if he died everything would die because they release a large amount of toxins when they die........
get those perimeters down to 1.024 at least
 
jurichar

jurichar

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they dont host him...i wish they would....err did...
does anyone have a pic of a dead one so i know what im looking for???
 
whaa...?

whaa...?

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well it isnt dead nessicarily i told u that if it died that ur fish would die from all the toxins but i happen to have one:D (those purple thigns are eggs)
 
jurichar

jurichar

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i moved most of the rock work around tonight to get a good look at the cc bed. I didnt find that thing anywhere, and believe me i looked. So now i have no idea what to do. I reduced the salininty down to between 1.024-1.023. Hopefully if he is alive i will see him soon...if he's dead...then im lucky he didnt kill everything!!! ;)
any further advice???
 
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thomas712

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Keep a daily eye on your tank. check for anything that might suggest a spike in paramiters.
If you haven't then run fresh carbon, just to help remove any possible mucus, toxins or DOC's that might have been caused by the anemones dissapearance.
Anemones have toxins, condi's and BTA's have a rather low toxic problem for us. IMO. I have seen both go through some pretty tramatic experiences in tanks, sucked up into powerheads, chopped in half or diced right up, many times without killing the whole tank, this includes melting events where they have died and dissolved right in the tank, but yes it can happen in some cases.
Usually with these two anemoens it only takes a little damage control, a water change, some carbon and or polyfilter and your back up to snuff.
If nothing is wrong with your tank, water quality, and water chemsitry then don't tear it apart worrying about it. You might just burry it inadvertantly.
Now:
How long have you had the anemone?
What is your lighting?
Water paramiters Ok? including pH, temp, oh and your salinity is fine at 1.025 or even 1.026, nothing to go overboard about.
calcium and alkalinity.
 
jurichar

jurichar

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thanks for the advice....heres a dumb question, how do you "run" carbon. I'm assuming they make some sort of pad that i can place in my sump???
As far as signs of things going bad, i think im pretty set. All the inhabitants are looking great (aside from my ongoing perc problem....another post).
Here are my tank parameters. As of today
Salinity: 1.024 now (down from 1.026)
Nitrates: 0
Nitrites:0-5
Ammonia:0
Temp 78-82 depending on lights
Alkalinity was 8-9 today, but that was after doing a waterchange to reduce the salinity so im assuming it was probably 10-11 before that. I did add more dKA though...i havent retested though
Calcium is pretty high still 550-600 or so (just got my test kit a few weeks ago, apparently i was adding too much before i tested...lesson learned. The peak level was about 800 2-3 weeks ago and i havent added any since)
PH is 8.2
The tank is a 55 with just under 400 watts of pc lighting (4x96) 2 10,000k and 2 actinic 03
thanks again!!!
The anenome is about 1.5-2 months old.
 
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thomas712

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sounds fine, your anemone probably just moved on you for some reason, unless there is some type of preditor that might have gotten to it.
Did you check all filtration devices, power heads and such?
If it did have a meltdown it sounds like you system has handled it just fine, but I'd be on the lookout for him anyway.
You can run carbon by just placing some in those micron bags mad just for this purpose. It can be placed in HOB filters, canister filters or in the sump if you have one, idea is to get it into a high water flow area so it makes the best use of it.
Do you run any type of mechanical filtration?
Thomas
 
jurichar

jurichar

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i just saw that your from midland!. My home town is harrison (hougthton lake, Mount pleasant, clare area) we go to Gengi's quite a bit ;) good eatin! Anway, its a small world.
 
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thomas712

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Hey been thinking about going up to Harrison, there is supposed to be some really good fireplace store up there, been thinking about getting one of those fireplace inserts. Ever hear of the place I'm talking about?
 
jurichar

jurichar

Member
yep...i used to work construction in harrison/midland. The name of the place is hearth of the home. They do have nice stuff, my dad just recently bought a fireplace from them. The price isn't too bad either....the reinke's are family friends also.
http://www.hearthofthehome.com/
my buddies dad is the webmaster and site designer ;)
 
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thomas712

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Thanks I'll check it out someday.
After I get my new crown for one tooth and a few hundered bucks worth of other dental work. So much for saving any money.:mad:
 
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tuningvis

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mine went missing one day then found chunks of him in my HOB filter
hope thats not what happen
and no it didn't kill everything in my tank
 
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