Stopping daily iodine dose relate to anemone move?

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My local reef monger had suggested that iodine addition (for xenia) was unnecessary and that it could make things worse by crashing out other elements (calcium in particular). He suggested that one should just keep up on the water changes...

So, doubtfully, I went and stopped the daily drops of Kent Iodine. In less than 2 weeks, my stripped carpet anemone has crawled from his lovely inflamed perch directly under the 250 watt 15K MH and shrunk into the corner. Nothing else has changed (I did move some star polyps to entice my clowns to follow into the anemone). I did my 20% biweekly water change today and started dosing again as 1/2 strength.

Is there any correlation to iodine and repair to UV rads, or is this just an anemone thing?

P.S. the xenia, clam, urcin, LPS's, etc...all fine.

 

[Anonymous]

Don't they do this to split? I think I read something to the effect that one guy kept moving them back into the light when in fact it was hiding in order to split. ....I could be dead wrong on this... but I'm sure someone here could verify this.

 

[trigger0214]

I've heard this too. I also heard it was a response to stress. But, If I had two anenomes I could handle that. . . . assuming that the stress factor(s) resolves....

 

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versus this.....

 

[Meloco14]

No idea on the anemone, sorry, but as far as iodine use very very few people dose iodine, and when they do it is once every couple weeks or once a month. Iodine is not used very quickly, unless you have a lot of molting shrimp and soft corals. I would get an iodine test kit and dose accordingly, instead of blindly dosing, and definitely not dose every day. Salt mix should have enough iodine to keep your tank fine between water changes, assuming you do regular water changes. If you let your tank go longer between changes, then you might need to dose iodine (and other trace elements) once in a while. It is definitely possible that the sudden stop of iodine could affect a sensitive invertebrate like an anemone, but I really don't know. Good luck with it.