Coloring up BTA, feed or no feed

[m0nkie]

I have about 5 different BTAs in my tank. They are under Kessil 360WE. 4 of them are great. 1 of them took over a month to fully adapt and lost lots of color in the process. It's not bleached. It looks darker and browner. very brown now. I saw the BTA releasing zoo nightly for 2 weeks.

Question: in order to bring anemone color back, should I supplement weekly feeding?

I read in different posts that feeding will actually darken the anemones. Is this true or not?

thanks!

 

[Sonymon]

any luck? im in a similar situation

 

[CoralsAddiction]

I have about 5 different BTAs in my tank. They are under Kessil 360WE. 4 of them are great. 1 of them took over a month to fully adapt and lost lots of color in the process. It's not bleached. It looks darker and browner. very brown now. I saw the BTA releasing zoo nightly for 2 weeks.

Question: in order to bring anemone color back, should I supplement weekly feeding?

I read in different posts that feeding will actually darken the anemones. Is this true or not?

thanks!

Typically anemones expel zoox from excess energy/light. So is it possible that your BTA is getting too much light and is browning out as a result of that?

 

[m0nkie]

any luck? im in a similar situation

I haven't done any drastic measures yet. just letting it be. It wasn't taking in food before but now it accepts mysis. But I don't want to feed much yet, afraid it's still abit weak. it went through zoo expelling for 3-4 weeks until it finally settling in.

Typically anemones expel zoox from excess energy/light. So is it possible that your BTA is getting too much light and is browning out as a result of that?

it might be.. I have my Kessils running at 95% max during the day for few hrs then ramp down. However, all my other BTAs are in the same spots and loving it. So I'm not sure if i want to mess with lighting schedule.. I'll ask around other kessil users for their settings.

 

[CoralsAddiction]

it might be.. I have my Kessils running at 95% max during the day for few hrs then ramp down. However, all my other BTAs are in the same spots and loving it. So I'm not sure if i want to mess with lighting schedule.. I'll ask around other kessil users for their settings.

I ran my Kessil A350 at 30%-40% on a 24 inch tall tank with RBTAs at the bottom of the tank. It did great. Here's a video of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suqMHp1ThfY

 

[Fish Bowl]

Wow, you're running your kessils at 95%? I also have BTA's in my 180 gallon which runs 3 360wes and it caps at 50% intensity and 80% color for 6 hours. I tried a higher setting before thinking it wouldn't be too bad since some of them came from my 100, but they ended up bleaching and are only now recovering.

 

[m0nkie]

Bleaching as in turning white? Or darker?

I run it at almost max because i was getting 100 par on sand bed. Around 400 at water surface. my sps were not growing at all. Clam was dying. I lowered the light a little toward the tank.. around 8" away. now they are better.

I ramp kessils from 20% to 95%.. stays at 95 for 2hrs during noon and ramps down to 20 again.

 

[Fish Bowl]

Bleaching as in turning white and expelling tons of Zooxanthellae. I'm not sure what to say about your par readings but the do seem oddly low for 95%, perhaps someone else can chime in to make sure.