is my BTA bleached or Not? (pics inside)

[gotdibz]

i just got it about a week ago, it looks good , but its hiding under a rock in a cave. do you guys think i should be worried? i havent tried to move him or anything, hopefully he comes out. I was also wondering if it was bleached or not, so here are some pics wit my crappy cam.

my tank is a 55 gal with a tek T5 6 bulb combo

 

[GSMguy]

i imagine its hiding from the 6 bulb tek light those things are pretty bright its a lil bleached but not very badly just needs some TLC

 

[gotdibz]

lol thanx for the input GSMguy, those lights are pretty cool...call me slow but what do mean by TLC ? (The Learning Channel) lol

 

[55semireef]

Yes your GBTA is bleached. Did you recently buy it like that or has it been bleaching?

The best way of bringing back an anemone from a bleached to a healthy state is keeping your water parameters stable, ensuring that your anemone is getting an aquedate amount of lighting and small daily feedings of pieces of shrimp or silversides. After about a month, your anemone should be almost at a full recovery.

 

[gotdibz]

thanx for the advice

 

[GSMguy]

Tender loving care .

 

[eskymick]

It doesn't look bleached so much as it looks hungry.

Try offering it a smaller silverside for starters. If he takes it, feed it 3 or 4 a week.

 

[tenwhiteduke]

What are signs for your BTA looking hungry???

 

[bigdaddyadam]

Hard to say, but I agree with above that it does look a tad bleached, but nothing that good care can not reverse

 

[gotdibz]

thanx 4 the input guys

 

[55semireef]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9810184#post9810184 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by eskymick
It doesn't look bleached so much as it looks hungry.

Try offering it a smaller silverside for starters. If he takes it, feed it 3 or 4 a week.

Any anemone that is bleached is going to be "hungry." That's why it is best to feed more than usual to a bleached anemone. Some typical signs of a starving BTA would be a loss of its tentacles and the shrinking of them. Based off the pictures, it looks like it is just bleaching for now.

 

[gotdibz]

how does an anemone bleach? or what cuases it to bleach?

 

[55semireef]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9811669#post9811669 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by gotdibz
how does an anemone bleach? or what cuases it to bleach?

Within the anemones tissue is a type of algae called zooxanthellae algae (zoo-anth-ell-ae). This symbiotic algae give the anemone its green and brown color and nutrition. When the anemone emits the zooxanthellae algae, this anemone loses its color and therefore bleaches. Without this algae, anemones can't survive long term.