Do gbtas stay green?

[jarrod13]

Do green bubble tips keep the neon green color or does it fade to a brown after a while?

For example: http://www.liveaquaria.com/diversden/ItemDisplay.cfm?c=2733+4&ddid=108490

 

[elegance coral]

It depends on your system. If you have low lighting and high nutrients, the anemone will turn brown. If you have powerful lighting and low nutrients, the anemone may get even more green.

 

[bradleym]

It depends on your system. If you have low lighting and high nutrients, the anemone will turn brown. If you have powerful lighting and low nutrients, the anemone may get even more green.

+1

Actinics help with GBTAs too. Without actinics they will look a lot duller.

 

[jarrod13]

I have a t5 fixture 4x24w over the tank I am considering putting one in. The bulbs will be three ati blue plus and one ge 6500k. Would that work?

 

[Allmost]

lighting
water parameters
and what you feed it all play a role. they need high nutrition food with antioxidants and color enhancers.

 

[bues0022]

I don't know if I would necessarily agree with the above. Given adequate lighting and physical conditions, a bubble tip anemone should actually need little food to thrive. To merely enhance color, I would say food is of lower importance to both water chemistry and lighting.

Small pieces of good meaty (cut up krill, fish, mussels, etc) is best IMO if you want to feed.

 

[Allmost]

I don't know if I would necessarily agree with the above. Given adequate lighting and physical conditions, a bubble tip anemone should actually need little food to thrive. To merely enhance color, I would say food is of lower importance to both water chemistry and lighting.

Small pieces of good meaty (cut up krill, fish, mussels, etc) is best IMO if you want to feed.

there are alot of studies showing that anemones are not that great at making color pigments, so color enhancers do benefit them, after all there is a reason they have a mouth that big I feed mine with Krill injected with tropic marine lipovit, and also sometime caretenoids, and the anemone colors up right after.

alot of good info here : http://www.zeovit.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8553

Edit:
of course, adding more food to your system, means you need to filter for it more so if feeding is done too much and basically more than ure system can handle it will effect water parameters and therefore downhill form there

 

[elegance coral]

there are alot of studies showing that anemones are not that great at making color pigments, so color enhancers do benefit them, after all there is a reason they have a mouth that big I feed mine with Krill injected with tropic marine lipovit, and also sometime caretenoids, and the anemone colors up right after.

alot of good info here : http://www.zeovit.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8553

Edit:
of course, adding more food to your system, means you need to filter for it more so if feeding is done too much and basically more than ure system can handle it will effect water parameters and therefore downhill form there

I only have one problem with the link above. You can not learn about one species of anemone by studying another. This is like studying ostriches and assuming the findings would hold true of penguins. Sure they're both birds, but the similarities stop there. Feeding habits, growth rates, reproduction, color, all these aspects can change drastically from species to species. The fact that anemones can be found in many different sizes, shapes, and colors, and that they can be found in many different habitats throughout our oceans, tell us that these are very different animals. Similar to birds, cats, fish, or...................

 

[Allmost]

I only have one problem with the link above. You can not learn about one species of anemone by studying another. This is like studying ostriches and assuming the findings would hold true of penguins. Sure they're both birds, but the similarities stop there. Feeding habits, growth rates, reproduction, color, all these aspects can change drastically from species to species. The fact that anemones can be found in many different sizes, shapes, and colors, and that they can be found in many different habitats throughout our oceans, tell us that these are very different animals. Similar to birds, cats, fish, or...................

Agreed !
but that is all we have same goes for other corals, like SPS, not all different acropora species are examined, we gotta use what we have

now the info posted in that link, are not about BTA but Anemones in general, I, along with many others have applied their method, and it works in case of BTAs as well, so why not ? the research, gave ME a better understanding of Anemones.