road to recovery GBTA

[jstephens24]

So I purchased a GBTA about a month ago and placed it in my tank. Tank was about 10 months old. I placed him on a rock and he moved a couple inches from the top to the side of it. I have been working so much that I haven't paid too much attention to it. After noticing it was bleached a week ago I dialed down my light time in half. There is still some green on the tips. I also turned over the rock so the anemone would not be hanging off the side but now is facing on flat rock. I also turned off my white bulb and just left my blue on.
Hopefully with these moves it will start getting its color back. I changed lighting time from 12 hours to 6. I left it like that for 6 days and now bumped it up to 7 hours of just blue.

Am I on the right path? When should I turn back on the white bulb?

I have a dual t5HO fixture. 54 watt bulbs that I replaced a week or 2 before the anemone.

 

[Bogue Chitto]

Check with Orion on anemones and clown fish forum

 

[Dkuhlmann]

Bogue this is the Anemones and Clown Fish Forum :lmao:

FYI I've done the same thing a few times

 

[jstephens24]

well it was looking better day by day til I got home last night. It completely shriveled up and looked like death. I wont be trying another one for awhile.

 

[Dkuhlmann]

You do know that BTA's sometimes do the shrivel up to nothing. That is a normal daily occurrence with many of them and they aren't dying. Hope you still have it in your tank but doesn't sound like it.

 

[Bogue Chitto]

Hey DK, I couldn't see the forum name once I was typing, ha! I will have to watch closer. I hope he found some help anyway....