Zooxanthellae source?

[Scoober68]

I acquired a bleached BTA in early March from another aquarist. The nem had expelled its zooxa after being in a dark tank with a broken light.

Anyhow, I am getting tired of nursing it. My water quality is great, but after four months this nem is not getting color back or improving in any way. Is there a method for me to give it some starter zooxanthellae?

These are the alternatives I have come up with:

1. Put another BTA in the tank on the opposite side. The excess zooxanthellae from the healthy BTA will seed the sick BTA.

2. If #1 is feasible, then it should also be feasible to take the water change from another tank with BTAs and dump that in my tank, right?

3. Feed a few tentacles from a healthy BTA to my sick BTA.

4. I read somewhere that the nem can capture dinoflagellates in the water and then alter them to serve as zooxanthellae. Just need to wait for it to happen, I guess.

Any other ways for the anemone to recover? Anybody with experience in trying #1, 2, or 3?

TIA,

Jim

 

[Saltwaternooby]

There was another thread on here of someone with a semi bleached haddoni, and he fed it with tentacles from a healthy one. I have a bleached haddoni as well, that has just started to regain some color. It was ghost white, the guy thought thats how it was suppose to be.

I have been feeding mine a tentacle from my seabae every other week but don't think it has done much. It is probably just getting it from the H20 column.

I read some where that iodine will help produce more zooxanthellae but not sure.

Just give it good water and time, It should come back.