Bleached GBTA...

[kmu]

About 3 months ago I bought 2 BTAs, one of them was a large sunburst that had been on my LFS for several months the "Other" one was a small Green bubble tip anemone that had just gotten into the store that morning and was still floating around inside the bag, it looked a little deflated which was obvious for it being inside a bag for a day.

When I got them both home the small green bubble tip after wondering around several days it decided to stay all the way down the rock structure under a dark cliff where it was very shaded.

Well about 14 days ago it decided to finally come out, its on the bottom of the rock structure, about 30" from the surface and 44" from the Hydra leds"¦

The GBTA looks like its barely starting to show some color, here is a pic a took about 3 days ago"¦





1. How much time do you guys think it takes for a bleached BTA to come back to full color?

2. Ive never fed the BTA because it was just too difficult to reach, should I try to feed it? it will be tough because its 30" down the water surface!!!

3. Any tips?

 

[Kaman8]

Without spot feeding it won't recover the color. You should feed it every 3 days small peaces of food. It need months for full recovery.

 

[m0nkie]

I feed my bubble tip silverside once every 2-3 days.

I have a 24" feeding stick. For your tank you just need to wear some gloves.. You can even put some skewers together as a stick

 

[clorox]

1. How much time do you guys think it takes for a bleached BTA to come back to full color?

2. Ive never fed the BTA because it was just too difficult to reach, should I try to feed it? it will be tough because its 30" down the water surface!!!

3. Any tips?

Was it bleached to begin with, or did it bleach as a consequence due to hiding for 2 weeks?
In any event, it will take a while under proper lighting to acquire back the original pigmentation.
Hard to say how long, however you should see some improvement within 2-3 weeks if it stays in the open absorbing enough light.

Given how deep your tank is I would use coral food like Coral Smoothie or similar, broadcast feed, or squirt some around the bta and it will eventually capture particles in the water column.

One thing is certain, though, do not feed silversides. If you devise a way to spot feed and reach its oral disc, use only seafood for human consumption like scallop, shrimp and clams. Finely chopped into the size of a small pencil eraser tip, your anemone looks rather small so keep feedings sized accordingly.

Keep in mind that healthy E.Quadricolor don't have to be necessarily fed. They absorb nutrition from when you feed your fish. Anemones are opportunistic feeders, if something falls within their oral disc they will eat no questions asked

 

[kmu]

Guys THX for the replys.

The GBTA was a very dar colors green when I first got it, but it stayed un the dark for about 8 weeks.

It finally came out maybe 2 weeks ago the most

To my eyes it looks like its barely starting to show some fluorescent color on the very short tentacles, but very very lightly. Also the tentacles are starting to show some minor bubble

I feed my other BTA mysis shrimp with a turkey baster but the BTA is about 10" from the water surface, will try to design something to be able to reach all the way to the bottom of my tank...

Here is a little better picture

 

[Mbelanger]

I just went through something similar (well few months now). I have this cool rainbow BTA and it looked awesome and as time went on it started turning white. It got to the point where the anemone was white similar to yours with just the pink tips.
So I started feeding it every single day. (frozen krill from the LFS) and now all of its bright greens, pinks, and orange colors have come back. So my suggestion is feed daily and it should help. Every now and again I would soak the krill with some "Reef Fuel" per a recommendation of my LFS.. Not sure if it helped but I figured it was worth the shot.