is my anemone bleached?

[MissNano]

I got looking at him today and he looks white to me.. how did this happen? How can i make it better? Or am i just over reacting?

He is BTA and is suppose to be green with red tips..

 

[rxonco]

Looks to be a bit on the bleached side. What kind of lighting are you using? How long have you had it?

 

[t4zalews]

yea..looks bleached....how long have you had your tank running? your rocks seem to have a diatomy scruff to them.

Does it eat? sticky? What are you tank parameter adn lighting?

 

[MissNano]

tank has been up for 6 months, i had to do a big water change here recently because for some reason my nitrates and ammonia were up. However they are finally stable. As far as lighting goes, i have a nano tank, two bulbs that are 50/ 50 half 10k day light half 7100k actinic blue. I have two of those. He does not feel sticky to me at all, I have had him about a month and half now, and i havent got him to eat for about a week now... what should i do? O

 

[MissNano]

also i just noticed that my xenia's tips are white and are like gone?? I did just add some salt water, i upded the salt in it because my saltlevel was low.. could this be the result from that?

 

[1fishkeeper]

Yes low salt levels can cause this. Its making it stressed out and that could cause it to bleach out.

 

[MissNano]

hmm how should i go about raising my salt level??

 

[sirjohn]

Best way is to do it slowly by temporarily using salt water instead of fresh water for your top-off of evaporated water. Test salinity every couple of days and stop when it gets to 1.026 or so.

 

[MissNano]

Just thought i would let everyone know, that my anemone is still alive, and i just now got him to start eating silver sides.. It was just the head of a silver side but he ate it, so maybe there is still hope. He is fully bloomed, seems happy. Just is still bleached!