RBTA lost All colour ??

[lllesley]

HI, purchased this RBTA about 3 months ago now.
Have had a ton of success with RBTA in the past, in fact have bought many bleached BTAs, recovered them and sold once healthy.
Parameters are excellent, direct feed once a week.
Have 5 others in the tank all doing well.
But this one has gone completely brown and lost all colour
Eats well , sticky tentacles, closed mouth, opens and closes as all the others do hasn't moved around since about day 2. But no colour.

The first 2 photos are of the RBTA that has lost colour. He moved around the back of the tank on day 2, he is behind the white alverpora (bit hard to see but that is the same RBTA that is in the first picutre.

I have also included some pictures of the other BTAs I have so you can see that I can acutally keep healthy ones, except the one I spent a fortune on.
Any ideas on if he will recover and why this has happened would be greatly appreciatd.
Thanks

 

[phender]

It is possible (but not likely) that it could have been artificially colored. It is more likely that the lighting in your tank is just not conducive to the anemone maintaining it color. Anemone pigments help protect the anemone from harmful solar radiation. If they don't need those pigments in your tank, they tend to fade.

Some rose BTA's keep their wild colors pretty well, others seem to lose their colors quite easily.

 

[lllesley]

It is possible (but not likely) that it could have been artificially colored. It is more likely that the lighting in your tank is just not conducive to the anemone maintaining it color. Anemone pigments help protect the anemone from harmful solar radiation. If they don't need those pigments in your tank, they tend to fade.

Some rose BTA's keep their wild colors pretty well, others seem to lose their colors quite easily.

I run ATI 8 x 80w programmable.
I cant imagine its the lights as all the others have grown, split and kept colour very very well. The 3 btas in the photo were all bleached when I bought them, they recovered, grew and gained their colour back before I sold them.
What else do you think it could be. ?

 

[geckoejon]

if anyone ever finds out what actually causes it, then i would sure like to know. i'm not sure what causes it. i literally have acquired a couple dozen bta's from local sources. some look the same after months, some gain color, some change color, some lose color then gain it back, some lose tentacles then get them back, and several melted away. all in the same tank under the same conditions...

is that a blue with green tipped bta in one of your pics? i picked one up locally. it has been a couple months in my tank, and now it is entirely green! not faded, but a nice deep bright green. go figure.... lol kinda bummed about that.

honestly, i think a lot has to do with different types of light, different water quality, and just different bta's. i had clone blue bta's. one faded in a month to the point that i tossed it out. the other looks just as good as the day i got it....

 

[emperor penguin]

nice RBTA... where do you purchase them from?