BTA help

[sunsancoo]

I have a BTA, I've had it for little over a month. In has looked healthy and found a spot that it enjoys in my tank. But in the last few weeks it has been acting strange. Half of it's tentacles seem to be retracted and the other half normal. It seems paler in color than usual as well. I've had my tank for almost a year now and still relatively new to salt water aquariums. Please help me out.

Salinity 1.022
Ph 8.2
nitrates, ammonia, and nitrites all look great.

 

[Dias]

How long you Keep salinity so low?
Do you have another nem in the tank?

 

[sunsancoo]

I have a long tentacle anemone in the tank and he is doing fine. I never have issues with it. I've had him for about 4 months now. The salinity usually ranges in my tank from 1.022 to 1.025.

 

[Dias]

I don't know for sure if this is the problem,but you must keep the salinity stable to 1024-1025

 

[sunsancoo]

Does anyone else have any ideas what may be causing this?

 

[stingythingy45]

Yeah,what do you have for lights?
Bleaching generally means not enough light.

 

[NautilusQ]

High lighting and stable-in the range Alkalinity.

 

[y0ung0ne]

How old is the tank? In the pictures it looks like the mouth is open which is not a good sign. Hope it makes it. Every once and awhile my BTA will have a few deflated tentacles and the rest fine but never lost color. How often do you feed and what do you feed?

 

[xtlosx]

From what I have seen in the past, LTAs and BTAs do NOT co-exist in the tank together that well and the BTA usually is the one that perishes.....

Someone will chime in on this, but pretty sure that is going to be an issue in the long run unless you run a crap ton of carbon...

 

[sunsancoo]

The LTA and the BTA are in the opposite sides of the tanks. Can they no co exist in opposite sides of the tank?
I have a blue light that stays on for 8 hours and a white light that stays on for 4 hours and moon light. I honestly can't remember off the top of my head what the wattage is.
I've had the tank for almost a year now.

I usually feed it every other day. I've been feeding it krill and sometimes the clown will feed it.

 

[Rippinfrags]

You do not have enough light for a bubble tip anemone or a LTA.