What does a GBTA look Like

[Bmgrocks]

I kno, stupid question, but most of the threads on here that have GBTA's are all Belached, not to mention that i have a recovering GBTA as well.

Just would like to know what it would look like by the time its recovered.

Before and After Pics, as well as all Healthy Anemone, non Bleached pics appreciated.

 

[phoenix]

Go to drmaccorals.com or reefermadness.us - both sites have pics of healthy GBTA. On reefermadness.us you will need to go to the inverts section.

 

[jannima]

My first GBTA, got it two weeks ago, not sure it is "healthy" tho.

 

[phoenix]

Looks healthy - nice bubbletip

 

[Slakker]

Looks a little bleached.

 

[Toddrtrex]

Agreed, it is bleached.

Here are two pictures of mine, one without flash and one with.
Not the best picture in the world, but my batteries are dead.

With flash. ( and yes it is the same BTA, for some reason the flash really brings out the green. And when the sun hits it, I have a skylight near that tank, for for a couple hours a day it gets natural sunlight )

 

[ATX aquarist]

toddrtrex, thats a very nice BTA you have there. I LOVE the color of it. Very nice

 

[AquaReeferMan]

Heres mine.

 

[Bmgrocks]

So When Exactly is it done Bleaching, Not having Owned many anemone's FROM PICS, i wouldn't be able to quite tell whether or not its bleached or not.

ie. Jannina pic, of a GBTA
1 person said its healthy
1 said it was a little bleached.

Can I see I gues a before and after pic.?

 

[wiley0717]

Anytime they look transparant they are bleached. Not always bad , I can alway tell when my Nem is going to split as it will streatch as far as it can and bleach in the process. I have also had them bleach when I had too much light over my tank although it never went totally white/clear just a lime green like in the Jannina pic.
On the other hand, I just re-aquired a nem that I gave to a friend that bleached from not enoough light and no supplimental feedings, totally clear and wouldn't expand........this is bad! I'll try to toss some pics up of a healthy specimen and a near dead one when I get in tonight

 

[bureau13]

Under 10Ks, my GBTA when healthy looks more tan than green. Under actinics or the Phoenix 14K bulbs I'm using now, it looks much more green, but its a fairly opaque color, save where the tips are most expanded.....the almost transparent light green look seems to me to indicate a lack of the photosynthetic algae (I can never remember how to spell it) that gives it the healthy golden-tan tones. I had a "gorgeous" purple LTA that was this translucent neon purple color, but it died within a week, because it had lost all of that symbiotic algae.

jds

 

[Abominable Reef]

Here's my GBTA, well, more a like a BBTA (Brown Bubble Tip Anemone). It looked like the one that jannima has at first, but has lost most of its green color, and turned a tan/brown color. I have had him for about 3 months in a 75g tank with (2) 175 MH's, and (2) 110w VHO actinics:

 

[wiley0717]

Got some pics to put up, these are taken with very little actinic and under 6500k.

First one is of a healthy specimen. The second and third are ones that I re acquired (about 6 weeks ago)but only after they had nearly perished from lack of sufficient light and no supplemental food. The third is a pic of one of the two re acquired that I didn't get to in time, it actually didn't have enough energy to hang on to a rock and floated it's way to my closed loop, it's now regrowing from a small piece of leftover foot that I could not retrieve from my tank (glad i couldn't get to it!!). Both Nems were that same color as in the third pic when I got them back, this kind of bleaching is bad!.

 

[wiley0717]

Oh yeah, the moral of that story.......Make sure someone is going to do what it takes to care for it before you send it to a new home!!