ID on a LTA glows green from within!?

Ryanqk

Ryanqk

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I Ended up selling this massive anenome and got a long tentacle anenome which floureses glowing green from its center, its the craziest thing ive ever seen, unfortunatly my camera will not replicate the color, i gotta get a better one, but you get the idea, when light shines on it , it glows strong ambient light from within. anyone ever hear of this one? My maroon loves it!
it has settled to the bottom of the tank in a opening and attached to the bottom glass thanks to the maroon's digging habit. this coloration happens under any lighting.

Id would be appreciated if anyone has a clue?

2 Pics are in my gallery just press above "gallery"


Thanks guys
Ryan :confused:
 
I think your anemone may be bleached...I've never owned a LTA myself, and very well may be wrong, however, the glowing green seems to be the anemone's natural green in contrast with the rest of its bleached body.
 
I know that its not bleaching, the LFS that sold it had it for a bit, and they said this is how it is naturally, its run by a reputable group of people. This sucker cost a pretty penny too, for a small anenome, im very careful with it. It eats well, and shows good signs of health. Also the pics kinda make the tips look whiter than they are in real life, its a camera phone. the color continues but fades some.. closer towards the tips, but not to white.
Ryan
 
Poor quality picture, but the LTA looks bleached to me. A better picture will clarify the problem.
 
I agree it looks bleached - also if it was healthy, its foot would be buried. I might also be too small for a maroon that size.
 
I've had anenome bleaching before, this isnt the same, i know the pic kinda makes it look bleached out.
Like i said, its my camera pic, it makes the tips look white. But i have one powerglo and one actinic in the tank. Second its foot is buried and attatched to the glass beneath. The maroon likes to move the sand away from her anenome, so it sank down and attached to bottom glass, its not roaming, not shrinking, although i took this pic late in the day when it shrinks down abit. its about double this size around 11am-8pm. The LFS has the same lighting in the tank, not MH or anything. I assure you its my camera that sucks the whole thing glows. Anyways other than bleaching, anyone have any ideas as to the glowing phenomina?
Thanks
Ryan
 
dantodd

If you dont believe the lighting i have is sufficient what lighting to do you believe is needed to keep the effect. So far i have not seen any loss of biolumine. properties over the couple months i've been observing, It shows NO signs of bleaching in person so i simply dont believe that it is, cuase i have observed bleaching in anenomes before, like i said before the white you see in the photos is due to my crappy camera phone. I'm sorry i dont have a better camera, i will borrow a better camera that way we can clear this up, cuase everyone who said "its bleached" also says the pic sucks, and i agree.
 
those are NO (normal output) fluorescent bulbs. depending upon which tank you have the anemone in you have either 60w or 80w total lighting (a 30 gallon tank is typically 36" long and a 36" NO bulb puts out 30W and you have 2 bulbs 2*30 = 60) The same math applies to 48" bulbs on your 55gal which have 40w each thus 80w total.

This is not adequate lighting for an LTA. Since one of your 2 bulbs is actinic, which has less PAR (photostynthetically available radiation) than a daylight bulb you are getting even less light for your anemone to keeps its zoox (i.e. not bleach)

The fact that you are running 50/50 actinic is also why you are seeing more fluorescence in your LTA than you might otherwise. My BTAs are shockingly fluorescent under actinic lights at the tips. I suspect that they would be similarly fluorescent over much more of their body if they were bleached. There is some purple fluorescence of the body and bottoms of the tentacles but the tips glow a dark green http://www.ir.org/Aquarium/online/bta-actinic.jpg

Perhaps when you find a better picture something more definitive can explain your "glowing" Or perhaps there are different versions of your bulbs than the ones I can find. Howeverl; based on what information you have provided I doubt you will find anyone who doesn't believe the anemone is bleached. I know there have been some anecdotal reports of people successfully keeping completely bleached anemones long term but that is rare, it is a good sign that he is eating for you. As others have said having a very large (relative to the anemone) clown hosting the anemone is not a healthy situation for the anemeone either.
 
I hate to jump on the band wagon here, but a bleached anemone isn't necessarily white. The glowing green color would normally be partially obscured by the brownish symbiotic algae. Since your anemone doesn't have any symbiotic algae (bleached) you are getting the glowing green full force.
Otherwise healthy anemones can live for quite a while being bleached. It often takes a couple months before you start noticing that your anemone is going downhill.
Without proper lighting it will never regrow its algae. If you only have 2 normal fluorescent bulbs over the anemone, that isn't enough. You might be able to get away with 4 bulbs, but probably not with an LTA.

FWIW: Many green BTAs will have that same green glow when they are bleached. Rose BTAs get a beautiful pink glow.
 
Ok the specs on these bulbs are

1 Power-glo 18000k (T8)15w
1 Marine-glow Actinic (T8)15w

If this isnt enough for these anenomes what do i need to get?
Its a 30gl tank and i am not spending 100 bucks on metal halides which some of my corals dont like becuase they are too bright.

Ryan
 
Your definately going to have an uphill battle keeping an LTA happy and healthy with that lighting. My LTA is in a 30g breeder, and 4 T5's. You may be able to do PC in a shallow tank. I have the NOVA T5 fixture with moonlights and built in fan, it was just over 200 bucks but worth it.
 
I used to keep an LTA in my previous setup (29 gal). It took a while, but it started to bleach after a couple of months under two 65w PC 10K's, even with feedings every 3-4 days. I was shocked at how much color it gained under the halide.

Let me know if you want to see before and after pics.
I'm sure yours will regain some color with regular feedings. I would recommend some T5's if the budget can't allow a halide system.
 
Ok i can see your point if you are gonna go with watts per gallon that makes this 1 watt per gallon, how many is ideal, like 4 or 5?? Ill add more t5's if i have to, but my gorgonians dont like the light as much...
Ryan

I may as well upgrade im getting a new 55 soon maybe i can find one that comes with the MH lights, i have to either make a ledge to shade these other corals like sun polyps and gorgonians or put them in a diff tank...
 
I've never seen this guy with any brown color hes always been a very smooth green color with light tips, he was sold that way and they indicated that this was its natural coloration, then again not everyone is god of the sea-people
 
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