Spots on magnifica?

blackthunda77

blackthunda77

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My magnifica bleached a while back. I'm now noticing almost like freckles or spots randomly on some of the tentacles. Any ideas?

It's not as colorless as in the photo but i adjusted the color to bring out the location of the spots. The camera was having a hard time picking them up.
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Jamie1210 said:
Looks like its slowly coloring up. Are you feeding it?

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Just fed it a shrimp which it looks like it's swallowing up. However I probably don't feed it as much as a should. Maybe once or twice a month.

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The spots on the tentacles are the return of the zooxanthellae. That is a bleached Magnifica that is recovering. The brown spots will spread and give that anemone back it's healthy coloration.
 
OrionN said:
The spots on the tentacles are the return of the zooxanthellae. That is a bleached Magnifica that is recovering. The brown spots will spread and give that anemone back it's healthy coloration.
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Thanks. Yes, I know it's bleached. Had some issues with higher nitrates for an extended period of time. But like I said, it's not as bleached as it looks. I had to adjust the color on the photo to make the spots easier to see.

How often should I be feeding it? Just took down a pretty large bait shrimp last night.

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The spots are where the anemone have zooxznthellae. The rest of the area are bleached. Prior to the spots, the anemone is completely bleached.
If you want him to grow, then feed him. If you OK or want to keep him the same size then dot feed him.
You can feed him as much as every other day. Daily feeding of about 1/4 cubic inch chunk every other day is OK (.5X.5X.5 piece of seafood.)
 
OrionN said:
The spots are where the anemone have zooxznthellae. The rest of the area are bleached. Prior to the spots, the anemone is completely bleached.
If you want him to grow, then feed him. If you OK or want to keep him the same size then dot feed him.
You can feed him as much as every other day. Daily feeding of about 1/4 cubic inch chunk every other day is OK (.5X.5X.5 piece of seafood.)
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I don't necessarily want it to grow any larger. I like the size it's at right now. However I would like it to color back up more quickly.

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You can feed hime pencil eraser size food every few days. Regardless if you feed him or not his color will recover in 1-2 weeks
 
I echo what Minh is saying. Feeding will not help with zoanthellae. That will come back with good light and stable parameters.

Feeding will probably help the mag grow. I think you can probably feed once a week while the zoax comes back, just to give the anemone a bit of food in the meantime. If it's not totally bleached out, feeding probably isn't needed as long as it is building back it's photosynthetic source of food.
 
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