Left school for 11 days for spring break, have 1 GBTA, 1 Normal BTA, and 2 Rose BTA's, All water perams upon return were stable, and consistant, 24g Tank, 150w MH, only my GBTA and RBTA's were bleached... But the Normal one has full color. Anyways all are doin fine, and i'm feeding silverslides bi daily. Whats the reason for the bleach..
No Light for 11 days, Bleached Anemones
- Thread starter Bmgrocks
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they feed off light!!!???
so why is it that none of my other corals or normal bta are still colored, with no signs of bleaching...
ok sorry for that, now all unecessairy electrical outlets ect. needed to be unplugged. I live in dorm, and had only left my pumps and heater running...
as far as salinity swings, my salinity was lowered over 2 weeks to .22-.23 expecting minimal evaporation, it had only jumped to .25 not too much of a shock to an established system over a 10 day period...
the tank was not fed, all fish fasted and did well, i'm sure they ate pods, i fed very heavily before I left, and did a waterchange before leaving school...
how is it anemone's can be hidden deep in rockwork, within shadows or crevaces and obviously not absorbing light for long periods of time with out bleaching.
3 of the 4 bleached, those being the Green and Red variety, they are all feeding and doin well...I'm just wondering why everything that is Photosynthetic, including my large elegence, frogspawn, bubble, are all retaining their color???
so why is it that none of my other corals or normal bta are still colored, with no signs of bleaching...
ok sorry for that, now all unecessairy electrical outlets ect. needed to be unplugged. I live in dorm, and had only left my pumps and heater running...
as far as salinity swings, my salinity was lowered over 2 weeks to .22-.23 expecting minimal evaporation, it had only jumped to .25 not too much of a shock to an established system over a 10 day period...
the tank was not fed, all fish fasted and did well, i'm sure they ate pods, i fed very heavily before I left, and did a waterchange before leaving school...
how is it anemone's can be hidden deep in rockwork, within shadows or crevaces and obviously not absorbing light for long periods of time with out bleaching.
3 of the 4 bleached, those being the Green and Red variety, they are all feeding and doin well...I'm just wondering why everything that is Photosynthetic, including my large elegence, frogspawn, bubble, are all retaining their color???
sarahkucera
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You've got 4 nems in a 24 gallon tank. That's massive overcrowding. Even with pristine water and lighting conditions you're going to eventually have problems with that set up. Not lighting the tank for 11 days likely only hastened or made apparent the more stressed specimens in your tank.
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