Bulb Anemone turned dark purple
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Morphieus5150
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Any Pics??...This will help ALOT...
saltwaterfarm
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How long have you had it? Has anything changed in your system? Tank info and water parameters would help too!
Good luck!
Good luck!
I've had it for about 6 months, maybe longer. I changed lights from 12k to 7k/10k but that was after he started to turn dark purple. water parameters are good except slightly high phosphate which has been slowly going down since i bought a new r/o. Other than that, the tank is good.
Alex33324
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ok a little lesson on photography
ok a little lesson on photography
Electrinic flash in camerasa re designed to reproduce neutral daylight in other words most flash at 5200 Kelving it may sound very yellow in aquarium light standads but that what it is. If you use your flash to photograph your aquarium you will always get diffferent colors from the ones you see under fluorescent light or even MHs unles they are rated close to 6000 kelvin.
If what you say you have is a BTA, they can survive by getting energy from the zooxanthelae algae in their tissue, but unles you have at least 250 MH I will feed them at least once a week and not brine shrimp or any kind of planktom but silversides cut in small pieces accordingly with the size of your anemone.
If what you have is a rittery or Hectaris Manifica most likely you will be in trouble sooner or later anemones are very fard to maintain healthy for long periods of time and specially a ritteri or hectaris magnifica.
you mentioned high phosphates, try to correct them as soon as possible. I will suggest water changes in combination to a small bag of rowaphos, or any other high quality phosban filter in combination of course with RO/DI water. let me remind you that food comes full of phosphates specially frozen foods such as brine shrimp formula one etc etc. the "soup" liquid that come with it its a bomb full of organic mater that will not be eaten and will increas phosphates nitrates and will lead you to an algae bloom sooner or later.
try as possible to keep perfect water parameters if you are into anemones.
If you have any other question regarding BTAs let me know I did not discourage you, that was not my intention.
ok a little lesson on photography
Electrinic flash in camerasa re designed to reproduce neutral daylight in other words most flash at 5200 Kelving it may sound very yellow in aquarium light standads but that what it is. If you use your flash to photograph your aquarium you will always get diffferent colors from the ones you see under fluorescent light or even MHs unles they are rated close to 6000 kelvin.
If what you say you have is a BTA, they can survive by getting energy from the zooxanthelae algae in their tissue, but unles you have at least 250 MH I will feed them at least once a week and not brine shrimp or any kind of planktom but silversides cut in small pieces accordingly with the size of your anemone.
If what you have is a rittery or Hectaris Manifica most likely you will be in trouble sooner or later anemones are very fard to maintain healthy for long periods of time and specially a ritteri or hectaris magnifica.
you mentioned high phosphates, try to correct them as soon as possible. I will suggest water changes in combination to a small bag of rowaphos, or any other high quality phosban filter in combination of course with RO/DI water. let me remind you that food comes full of phosphates specially frozen foods such as brine shrimp formula one etc etc. the "soup" liquid that come with it its a bomb full of organic mater that will not be eaten and will increas phosphates nitrates and will lead you to an algae bloom sooner or later.
try as possible to keep perfect water parameters if you are into anemones.
If you have any other question regarding BTAs let me know I did not discourage you, that was not my intention.
maww
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my experience is that if they make it through a few months without dissolving into goo, then you have as good a chance as with any other anemone. Brine shrimp are not enough. They need to be fed with small fish (silversides, buy the IQF, not the ones frozen into a block), and you can try other small whole fresh seafoods- shrimp, clams etc. (I only feed mine with silversides or fresh anchovies). There are loads of threads here about keeping these guys. do a search for "ritteri" or "magnifica" and do some reading. Lots of it is very depressing, can't be done stuff, but there are also people who have been quite successful with them. good luck with it
So sad. He will be very missed...especially by my clowns.
