quick question

[jaydm93teg]

ok i have had a green bubble tip anemone for a while now and it always always has planted itself where it can't be seen and i know that it couldnt possibly be getting that much light cause it has always been like as far under my rock work as it could be and i have moved it and moved it and it seems to always find the darkest places. Well it was under a 150watt sunpod MH and then when i got my biocube and put zoas and frogspawn in it they were doing so great that i thought hey why not try my anemone in there so i put it in there and it did the same thing way far down under my rock work and today i woke up to find it pretty much dead like melting away turned all white and string of it just floating all over the tank so i took it out and flushed it i mean it was gone smelled horrible when i took it out. my question is my pulsating xenia were all tightend up and looked the worse they have ever looked could that be from my dead anemone in the tank? its a 14 gallon biocube stock lighting on the cube no fish in the tank just a few hermits and snails and then some zoas frogspawn and pulsating xenia

 

[xyzpdq0121]

Yep... you need to do a good size water change and check the tank for the next few days for an ammonia spike.

 

[jaydm93teg]

should i take the frogspawn and pulsating xenia out and put it in my 29 gallon under the sunpod until i do the water change? i mean the 29 is an established set up with fish and LR and some mushrooms i just found this stuff did better in the biocube i also have an 80 gallon that has been up and running for about 2 weeks now but the only thing in it is about 10lbs. of LR and a full bottom of LS i dont even really have a light for that tank

 

[jaydm93teg]

should i take the xenia and frogspawn out of the biocube?

 

[xyzpdq0121]

If you can not get to a waterchange tonight, then yes you are going to want to move them, but I would not move it to the new tank...

 

[jaydm93teg]

well i put my hand in to take the nem out and didnt pay attention............later on last night i went to pull the pulsating xenia out and move them to the 29 that i have had set up for a while and i realized the water in that biocube was HOT........it was sitting at 85 or 86 degrees according to my thermometer i looked and the heater in that tank was still on!!!!! so i pulled the heater out obviously it is broken if its set on 79 and its still heating when the water is at 86.

so my question now is could that hot water change be the reason my nem basically evaporated all over the tank and the xenia was looking pitiful??? the frogspawn look as happy and fully bloomed as they can be but the xenia was tiny and close up and the nem obviously is gone.

 

[jaydm93teg]

also has anyone ever had "heat' problems from the stock lighting in the biocubes?

i dont think its the lighting i just wanted to make sure its not a common problem with these things

 

[xyzpdq0121]

The heat could be why the nem went belly up....

 

[jaydm93teg]

thanks, yeah i had to pull that heater out completly trying to get the temp down but the frogspawn are still hanging in there like champs.....i think i lost the pulsating xenia even after i got them moved to the other tank they still look pitiful

 

[xyzpdq0121]

Give the xenia some time... it should bounce back...

 

[jaydm93teg]

I hope so but it looks really really bad like its just melting away I dunno anything I can do to help it like leave light on turn it off its sitting under a 150 watt mh..... Is that overkill

 

[xyzpdq0121]

Just let it be... If it is gone, there is not much you can do... Best thing for it is just to let it adjust if it can.

 

[jaydm93teg]

xenia melted away no saving that.........my zooas that i have were also pretty mused up. The purple thing that they come out kinda faded and started to turn white but its still has purple color to it. but i have seen the zoas themselves since the heat accident. Is there anything i can do to help them?