Please help my carpet anemone is bleaching

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Vancouverman

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Hello:

You may rember me posting pictures of my 2 new anemones last week. Well the big green one spawned in my tank 3 days ago and spewed milk all over my tank. I did emergency water changes with RO/DI saltwater just like I always use to clear up the milky water. I did a 50 o/o water change. I also added fresh carbon to my phosphate reactor to help clean up the water. I have a 55 gallon tank with a 20 gallon refugium full of cheato. Nitrates are undetectible and phosphates are pretty low. The tank is 8 months seasoned and has a 5 inch DSB and about 80 pounds of liverock. I have a wavemaster Pro with 3 maxijets and 1 seio 820 running 24/7. Remora Pro skimmer. 2 250 watt xm halides 10000k with PC actinics. The blue anemone is just fine. The big green carpet is loosing its color. It spawned 3 days ago, perhaps this is a sighn of stress? I have fed it a few times. Raw shrimp meat about 1 inche long twice. I gave it 1 of those cubes of formula 1 that I defrosted first the other day and yesterday I fed it a mix of seafood that I make for my fish, you know blended shrimp,mysis,clam,squid,scallop,octopus, along with some Boyds Vitachem that I add b4 I freeze it for added nutrition. It has been great food for my fish so why not the anemone.

All my other corals look awesome and my fish and inverts are doing great.

My question is. Why is it bleaching? Could it be my lights are to strong? It was under a 400 watt bulb b4 I got it but I dont know the how good it was. Diddnt look that bright to me.
I keep the tank at 78-81 degrees.
How long should I keem the halides on?
Did I overfeed it or is it something about it spawning that made it bleach? Its not completly lost its color but is fading.

Thanks for the help, I can use all I can get. I have been reading up everything I can

Jay in Vancouver Washington

This is b4 it started bleaching. The anemones are no longer touching
two.jpg
 
Current picture would help.

Bleaching can be triggered by many things, in fact, spawning can apparently be induced by certain stressors as well. The events may be related.

I typically look into the lighting(sporadic carbon and ozone use change lighting penetration through water), temps, and significant pH shifts when my anemones begin bleaching.

Best of luck.
 
Could it be caused by the small size of your tank? It's kind of hard to tell with the picture that you've provided, as it isn't a full tank view, and I have never had carpets, so please keep in mind that this is simply my never-owning-carpets-before-.02, but your two look:

A) squished against the glass.
B) way too large individually to be in a 55, much less having both of them in a 55.
 
Yes its in a 55 gallon tank. It has buryed its foot under the rock in the sand and is not touching the glass. It looks like it has shrunk down a little since I got it. There is many changes from my tank than the one it was in. I have much stronger current. He only had 1 400 watt halide while I have 2 250 watt plus actinic PC.

Mabey I fed him to much? I keep the lights on 12 hours is that to long?

Thanks for the help.

Jay
 
Yes its in a 55 gallon tank. It has buryed its foot under the rock in the sand and is not touching the glass. It looks like it has shrunk down a little since I got it. There is many changes from my tank than the one it was in. I have much stronger current. He only had 1 400 watt halide while I have 2 250 watt plus actinic PC.

Mabey I fed him to much? I keep the lights on 12 hours is that to long?

Thanks for the help.

Jay
 
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