3 dead BTAs!

With correct lighting and good tank conditions you should not have to feed an anemone. The MG being high could also very well had done this, also the alk is fairly low.

 

ditto...were you testing for iodine and what were your levels and why did you feel the need to dose?

I re-read what you wrote you dosed iodine and need the test kit? you haven't tested for it, yet you added it? You may have your answer right in front of you. Do a good water change and NO MORE anemones! Iodine is not a food, it is a chemical.

 

Are you revoking my permission to own anenomes?

 

do I need to?? ahahahaha I figure, and I've said this many times before, we take something out of the ocean that lives for hundreds of year and kill it within months/years. I'm guilty myself, but I stopped buying them.

 

I wont have another either and they do not split to save themselves. they clone for the same reason polyps clone or anything else that clones itself....and they will not clone in a unhealthy tank...only a clean environment. and to reproduce an unhappy anemone will not split. Why does anything else in the ocean clone itself.....I wish they would just leave them in the ocean....

 

this is why i'm concerned. this bta was doing well, and had divided not once but twice, and all three had been growing. then, over a very short period of time, they all died. everything else in the tank is doing well.

yes, dosing a small amount of iodide without testing wasn't the brightest (or dumbest) thing i've done. i just tested for iodide and molecular iodine (salifert) and both came up UNDETECTABLE... so that wasn't the problem. btw, i started with the iodine b/c none of the sps in my tank grow - they don't die/recede, they just don't grow, and its driving me nuts. and yes, i'm working on the alk/calcium with a two-part additive.

just one more - it's all fun and games to make people feel dumb when they come here looking for help. i doubt there's a single person with a marine tank that hasn't done more than a few "incorrect" things while trying to learn how to do this well. The best resource these days for a novice like me is a website like this - i don't have an lfs with anyone with experience, and there is no local reef group. i appreciate the help people here are willing to give, but every now and then the preaching gets a little silly - it's the people out there just throwing tanks together and never asking questions that could use it, but they won't ever see it.

 

I try not to be preachy, but to the point and blunt. Being blunt gets people's attention. Then they listen. Then they learn! It's all good dude......We're all in this together and we're here to help!

 

thanks. this tank is a year old now and i was hoping to have something growing better by now. bulbs are all new - i just replaced them - 2x460nm and 2x420 nm, 150 watt MH's x 2.

im still suspicious that is was grocery store scallop, b/c the trouble seemed to start soon after i started with a new scallop.