sebae bleached

[lovethereefer25]

So I've had my pink w/purple tips sebae anem around 3 years under pc's with no issues. Around 6 months ago I changed my lights to dual 150w mh's phoenix 14k bulbs! Since they ran significantly hotter than my pc's I started running into some temp swings. There were a few days where the swing would run anywhere from 72 at night when the fans didn't cut off up to 84.5 during the day when the fans were to small to cool the mh's. Obviously this was an issue addressed and I have been maintaining constant temp range of 79-80.5. Everything in the tank from softies to zoos to sps are all doing fine except my sebae anem. He/she/it has been bleached white and doesn't expand nearly as much as it used to since before the temp issues. It seems like the anemone would move it it wasn't happy with where it was. He is in the bottom corner where it has been for years. Any ideas of how I can get this guy healthy again? All water params are fine. I perform 10-15 gal water change every 3 weeks. Tank is a 55gal with a wet/dry turned into fuge. Nothing else is showing any kind of issues other than the mthr f'ing monti nudi's, but thats another story for another day. Thanks for any input!

 

[Lewin]

If he bleached out because of the temperature stress then you need to just keep feeding him until he re-gains his color. That said you could try moving him closer to the light. I have had anenome's stay in not so hot spots lighting wise because they liked the current/substrate/etc. I have had to move the anenome to a higher light spot and then move rocks around to create the type of current the sucker prefers. Otherwise he was starting to bleach in spots from lack of light.