Lost color

[monaca]

Has anyone had success bring back the color to a bubble tip anemone...mine has gone from green to total white...for about 6 months now...right around the time I switch to MH...I'm not sure if that was the cause or not??? Any suggestions... I do not target feed it.

 

[AquaReeferMan]

You should be feeding it. Did you acclimate it to the new lighting??

 

[AquaReeferMan]

Also what are your tank params? It is possible, I purchased a GBTA and it was pretty much white and now it has its color back. I would deff be feeding it though.

 

[monaca]

Just feed him...I will continue to target feed twice a week...

 

[TOURKID]

feed it. silverslides. not a whole one, just 1/3 maybe. because its bleached id suggest soaking the silverslide in selcon first. make sure its completely defrosted too.

 

[masterfish35]

I had one that did the same thing a couple years back. I brought it back by feeding it formula one frozen cubes. About a half cube a day if I remember correctly. Maybe I just got lucky, or maybe it had a bunch more vitamins than just silversides. Since coming back though, I feed it silversides regularly and have had no more bleaching. It will take time. but just stick with it - took me about 6 weeks to fully come back.

 

[monaca]

It's making sense now, I was buying live brine from my LFS weekly...they stopped carring it awhile back...I'll pick up some selcon this week...Thanks for the help.

 

[monaca]

Update...I have given him food twice over the past six days...I'm starting to see a green tint returning to the tips.