White carpet with blue tentacles

[Mike de Leon]

Hi Everyone. Just picked up a white large one with blue tentacles. Apparently the white is a sign of loosing colour pigments? And can eventually die?
The nem was small at tthe lfs but have opened up to 15 inches in my tank only after 24 hours. Will a maroon host it? I am afraid it will ingest my mandarin...

 

[NanoReefWanabe]

pics will help...but any white is usually not a good thing...

 

[millerp]

there is no such thing as a white carpet anemone naturally which means it is bleached out. I don't want to discourage you from taking care of it, but unfortunately this means it will probably not survive. It is difficult to get a healthy specimen from a local fish store to survive let alone one that has been bleached. My best advice is to make sure your water conditions are pristine, soak whatever SMALL pieces of food you are feeding it such as krill and silversides in a vitamin supplement such as vitachem, and hope for the best. If it does however survive it will make a nice 30 dollar meal out of your mandarin. Also, if it does go south make sure you pull it out of your tank as soon as possible, because it will quickly pollute your tank and destroy anything else you have in it.

 

[JamesJR]

Could you post pics? I would suspect that you either have a blue s. Haddoni or s. gigantea. The first species tends to be much hardier than the latter. If you have a gigantea and it is bleached I would say you have a pretty low chance of success but I would just try and feed it, keep water conditions perfect and hope for the best. Also the haddoni will have a higher chance of eating the mandarin.

Could you post pics?

 

[Mike de Leon]

here are a couple of pics
http://s68.photobucket.com/albums/i21/mookerji/?action=view&current=IMG_1202.jpg
http://s68.photobucket.com/albums/i21/mookerji/?action=view&current=IMG_1199.jpg

 

[OrionN]

I am fairly it is a bleached S. gigantea. If the spots on the column of this anemone, then it is a Gigantea. Good luck

 

[Gig 'em]

Agree, it looks like a bleached gigantea to me