RBTA changing colors??

Phyxius

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We have or my wife acquired a RBTA that was a light pink color when we first got it. Its colored up since we first got it and grown nicely since then. Lately it has started getting a silvery snow like splash coloration to it like someone splattered spray paint on it which is really nice looking and I have seen it before on other BTA`s. The last few days the tips have also started changing coloration to green. Its only the tips kind of like a Flame tip Anemone has yellow but this one has green.
Has anyone ever had a RBTA morph its color pattern before? Its kind of nice to watch it do this but unusual also.

A few months ago when we first got it and it was moving around tank and poking out in middle of the other corals in pic. Here it is all pink and no other colors
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Pic today showing some of the silvery spots and the green tips. This is only half of it showing as the rest is behind the rocks. It has grown tremendously. Sorry for the bad pic as battery on my Canon XTi was dead....You can see the green tips clearly now though
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First let me say that your anemone is very nice looking.

When you first got the anemone, the pink color it came was an unhealthy bleached out anemone. It wasn't horrible but by no means healthy. Now I have to give you props because more than half the people that got that anemone would have see it just go down hill and die.

Its original coloration is just coming back to its healthy state due to your very healthy tank. I don't think its morphing at all just getting healthy.
David
 
Beautiful RBTA. Yeah, sounds like it's just returning to it's natural coloration under your strong lighting.
 
Thanks for the comments guys. Truthfully I was never fond of the BTAs and tried to hold out over the last 4+ yrs and multiple tanks but the wife finally wore me down. I was worried about them moving around and going where I didn't want them. The night of the upgrade to the 210g we lost our last one we had in the old 90g due to a unprotected new powerhead. It was late and I didn't get the guard on in time so it was my fault. This was the new replacement for it we mail ordered in from a store in CA and must say I`m kind of happy on how it has changed in colors lately and stayed put the last few weeks also. If it moves to the other side of the tank with all the SPS that may be another story though.......
 

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