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bessycerka
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Your anemone slightly resembles this carpet ( except for the coloring ) and this carpet seems to be very easy to care for, I don't know the exact species, anyone else care to identify?
perfectdark
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I agree with Viper. VERY HIGH light requirements and they seem to like strong flow. IMO it does look a bit bleached. What type of lighting is it under?
teen
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im thinking the browning is an indicator that its not getting enough light. im not an anemone expert, and i dont have much experience with them, but browning in corals often means not enough lighting. excess zooxanthellae is being produced to make up for the low lighting in order to keep the coral (or in this case anemone) fed and that gives it a brown look.
8 months is nothing considering some anemones have rediculously long lifespans.
8 months is nothing considering some anemones have rediculously long lifespans.
perfectdark
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Originally Posted by teen
http:///forum/post/2469741
im thinking the browning is an indicator that its not getting enough light. im not an anemone expert, and i dont have much experience with them, but browning in corals often means not enough lighting. excess zooxanthellae is being produced to make up for the low lighting in order to keep the coral (or in this case anemone) fed and that gives it a brown look.
8 months is nothing considering some anemones have rediculously long lifespans.
Nope the browning is a good thing and the lack of it is bad. When an anemone bleaches it typically starts at the tenticles and fades out to the food, white is not good. General rule with anemones there is no such thing as a healthy white anemone. Their base color should be any variation of dark brown, to carmel, to brownish pink.. those are all colors indicating a healthy specimine. This color should extend up and into the tenticles with pigmints of what ever color the specific specimine is. EG. Rose BTA, the foot to base should be brown'ish, and the tenticles can be any variation starting with green changing to rose, light pink, even orange.
http:///forum/post/2469741
im thinking the browning is an indicator that its not getting enough light. im not an anemone expert, and i dont have much experience with them, but browning in corals often means not enough lighting. excess zooxanthellae is being produced to make up for the low lighting in order to keep the coral (or in this case anemone) fed and that gives it a brown look.
8 months is nothing considering some anemones have rediculously long lifespans.
Nope the browning is a good thing and the lack of it is bad. When an anemone bleaches it typically starts at the tenticles and fades out to the food, white is not good. General rule with anemones there is no such thing as a healthy white anemone. Their base color should be any variation of dark brown, to carmel, to brownish pink.. those are all colors indicating a healthy specimine. This color should extend up and into the tenticles with pigmints of what ever color the specific specimine is. EG. Rose BTA, the foot to base should be brown'ish, and the tenticles can be any variation starting with green changing to rose, light pink, even orange.
sh2000
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Thnaks it looks ok to me but it not the best picture I hope if you can tell if it's healthy some would say it might be bleaching but I don;t see it. I feed it 3x a week silversides and squid plus it gets brine and mysis shrimp when I feed the other fish I run around 800 watts in a 120 gal tank with MH's running for 6 hours a day and actinics for 10-12 hours.