*sniffle*

[Tviokh]

The poor bubbletip died!
He'd been doing so much better, he wasn't showing stress symptoms at all. Tentacles back out, good, vibrant color, feeding, he'd grown a bit, the clown was interacting with him again, water readings all perfect, and this morning...melted!

Just a little stump of his foot is left.

On a happier note, the green hairy mushroom is doing GREAT. It's getting very large!

Everyone else in the tank is doing well as well; all the zoos, mushrooms, the inverts, the fish, all lovely, colorful and seemingly happy.
The tang has started picking at the coralline, so if I had to guess I'd say he's trying to hint that he wants me to feed him the dried seaweed more often than once per day.

The pencil urchin has started coming out to occasionally graze during the day. It's nice to see Stubby moving about now and again. Urchins, I found, can move a lot faster than I'd thought.

[Loverotties]

How long have you had the tank running?

[Tviokh]

Originally Posted by Loverotties

How long have you had the tank running?

The tank was established for 15 years before we got it; when we bought it, we moved about 3/4 of the water, the 8 year old clownfish that still lived there, and all of the gravel (there were no decorations save plastic plants) with it.

At OUR house, it's been running for 4 months.

[chazz-66]

Sorry about the BTA Might need some higher lighting?

[pogodzib]

Moving old gravel is not a good thing to do since alot of the old gunk that was burried in the gravel will become re-exposed and can pollute your water. Four months should be long enough though for those pollutants to be gone. Without having you post your actual water parameters and assuming that they are good, I would second that your lighting is the most probable reason for the BTA dying.

The yellow tang is probably picking at small algae strands on the rock, and not the coralline. I have never seen a YT trying to graze on coralline.

[Tviokh]

It's a scopas tang, actually.
I can see bits of bare rock where he's picked coralline off.
Silly boy. He leaves it alone if there's always algae in the clip.

[Tviokh]

Originally Posted by lfish

so sad to hear the news. : (

we will have to try again sometime when you feel things are ready and my clones are splitting.

There are a few nice looking anemones down at the local store. There is a purplish pink one I really like.

TW has some nice condys right now.
They're not generally clown hosts, I know, but oddly the ones there had clowns rolling about in them.

[lfish]

so sad to hear the news. : (

we will have to try again sometime when you feel things are ready and my clones are splitting.

There are a few nice looking anemones down at the local store. There is a purplish pink one I really like.

[pogodzib]

Originally Posted by Tviokh

It's a scopas tang, actually.

Sorry. I misread your original post.