my RBTA went from red to pink

[xunknownx]

when i bought my RBTA, it was red has been doing fine but one day i came home and it turned pink and it looks smaller too. i keep up with regular water changes, 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite and 10 nitrate. this is an established tank for about 2 years. looking at the anemone faq, i think my rbta is bleached? it occured around the time when my house got really hot and the tank temperature was around 85 degrees even at night. so i decided to turn off my daylights for a few days so it wont add additional heat. wonder if that may of caused it? thoughts?


first month when i got it

now

 

[sublime9182]

Looks bleached what's your lighting?

 

[xunknownx]

using the stock JBJ 89watt LED

 

[sublime9182]

If it's 85 at night can I assume it's higher bring the day? I would say that's your reason I know I had a heater go nuts and raised my temp to 84 and my new wasn't happy. I would just try and control temp. Maybe a clip on fan or something pointed at the water surface.

 

[xunknownx]

we had a heatwave for about a week so it was only hot during that week. in san francisco, its usually around 60s. temperature has been back to normal now for about a month now.

 

[sublime9182]

has it gotten any better or worse since then?

 

[xunknownx]

it havent gotten better so thats why im here to ask for advice on what to do. been doing some research and people say to feed it more often but its kind of hard to feed it when its closed up most of the time or only opens up a little bit.

 

[shesacharmer]

Try to feed it a piece of meaty fish items (shrimp, fish, scallop, clam) the size of a pea at least twice a week. It will help in it's recovery.

 

[b_newman]

A 2 year old brown bubble tip in my garage split last spring, then turned white when the temp was 90 for a day w/o the chiller. Since that day over a month ago, they've spent 7 hours every day under 150-watt MH in 80-85F water at 1.020-1.027 sg. The 30 gallon tank isn't well cared for, but a maroon clown feeds both anemones so they look great for now. If the temp or light conditions didn't bleach them, I really really want to know what did

 

[xunknownx]

its probably the temperature but i want to double check my lighting conditions. im giving them 4 hours of daylight 14k 89 watt LEDs and 8 or 10 hours of attinic blues.

 

[Silvergryphon]

Bump your daylight time period up. Actinic blue alone isn't enough.

 

[b_newman]

I forgot to mention that mine are ~8" under the water surface. How far from it is yours?

 

[sublime9182]

Yea I personally would go 8 daylight and atinic with one hour of just actinic before and after you may want to acclimate a little to a longer lighting period. And just throwing this out there but what's your salinity and do you use an ato to keep it stable?

 

[phender]

It is very typical for BTAs to bleach when the temps get into the mid 80's.

 

[xunknownx]

ok i bumped my daylights to 8 hours. the RBTA is sitting in the middle of the tank, i dont have the exact measurements but its found its spot the first few days i got it.

i do notice that my PH is way too high, its been hovering at 8.55 (which is still pretty high) and its slowly going up, yesterday i checked it and its at 8.70! how do i go about safely lowering the PH and what is causing my PH to keep climbing up?

 

[kevonstl]

keep feeds it every day and change water regularly and color will come back. Its take more than 6 months before mine gain back the color.