anemone color

[cap11885]

what determins an anemone's color? the color of the algae within?

would it then be possible to introduce a perticular color to a bleached nem? or does it have to be chance?

 

[fishmanstan]

Bleaching nems=short term survival.

 

[fishmanstan]

I meant adding color bleaching, not if the nem is bleached from improper care.

 

[ssgtgonzo]

If you are looking for scientific reasons such as clades of zoanthellae, look at the November/December 2011 issue of coral magazine, they have a good article. It dels mostly with corals, but the same can be true with any photosynthetic creature

 

[bradleym]

The colors on the surface of the anemone can change from tank to tank, depending on lighting and conditions. But I don't think you can inject algae from RBTA into a GBTA (for example) and have it start showing red all of a sudden. I believe the color range is predetermined by the parent anemone that the BTA split from, or the parents of the anemone if it came from sexual reproduction.

 

[cap11885]

because i inherited a bleached BTA and im fixing him up. hes snow white no color at all but feeding on a normal schedule. i also have a RBTA that just split. and i read that it will help the bleached nem to regain its algae i think it would be a little boring to have 3 RTBA's so if color were determined say by the algae culture inside then maybe i could get a sample from a green BTA and expose it???