Orange BTA???

[R_Hudson]

a nice lady gave me a small rbta or so she said...she had about a dozen or so in her tank and in talking to her she said here have one...he was about half dollar size closed up when she gave him to me...her lights hadnt come on yet. but anyways in getting him home and in my tank once he is opened he is fire orange...very pretty but i didnt know if this is a juvinile thing or his permanent color...i have him under 20k halides with plenty of flow. also about how long should it take before his tentacles start growing out...this is my first anemone if you cant tell. i will try to post a pic later

 

[tpdpercula]

Did she have them under PC lighting?

 

[phender]

Re: Orange BTA???

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13336356#post13336356 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by R_Hudson
..... in my tank once he is opened he is fire orange...very pretty but i didnt know if this is a juvinile thing or his permanent color......

BTAs come in a variety of colors including orange. Whether or not the color of you BTA changes has more to do with the light spectrum and intensity that it is exposed to in your tank. I don't have anyway to predict what spectra/intensities will do what. Tentacle length will also have an effect. As tentacles elongate the color tends to disperse. Here are a couple different "oranges" I have had/have.

This one was a copper color. Unfortunately, it couldn't find a place it liked and I eventually lost track of him.

This one is more of a flame orange like you describe.

 

[R_Hudson]

no she had him under t-5 lighting...when i saw her tank all of them were still closed up and you could barely see the true color...obviously of the red spectrum so who knows i have just never seen an orange colored...it looks a lot like the 2nd one only a lot smaller and the tentacles look like the first...my batteries are dead in the camera so hopefully i can get a pic eventually. for my next question over the last couple days he has begun to creep ever so slowly towards my sps will one attack the other if they get to close or do i need to rearange around him...

 

[phender]

Normally the sps will lose if they touch each other, but it usually takes a couple days of contact before the sps will show any damage.

 

[R_Hudson]

bare with the camera kinda washes out some color

 

[phender]

Nice anemone. It looks just a little bleached, but not too much. Hard to tell what color it will be when all the zooxanthellae return. Might be a really nice orange or the light brown of the zoo might make the orange look more brown.

 

[Slakker]

Phil, I don't suppose that flame orange BTA you've got has decided to split yet, hmm?

 

[phender]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13348252#post13348252 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Slakker
Phil, I don't suppose that flame orange BTA you've got has decided to split yet, hmm?

Nope sorry, it has been very stubborn in that department. I guess I just treat it too well.

 

[jubjub]

you shoudl seriously either move the nem or that hammer... my frogspawn was fighting with my nem and winning...just a fyi the hammer will win to...

 

[JAG107]

Hudson-- nice green birds nest!@ I just bought one yesterday. Euphyllias looking good, too. Hope your BTA does well, when I bought mine it detached overnight and got stuck in a powerhead, looked totally destroyed, LIVED! and split 2 months later, now both are doing great a year and a half later, although are a little smaller than they used to be, they lost size when I switched from PC to dual 250w halides, but the color is still the same roughly.