anemone color loss
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Daniel@R2R
Living the Reef Life
+1 on the lighting questions.
by the way this is a callifornia coast tank there are mussels in the tank hermit crabs and anemones. temp is around 61 degrees and the salt level 1.026 those levels are fine for the animals but the anemones lost color
Since these are aggregating anemones the bleaching is probably related to a deficit in nutrition. Brine is probably not going to cut it. They are loosing their zooxanthellae, and I can not comment on the lighting because I am not familiar with the fixture but you may have to supplement the lighting. I would try adding some amino acids to the diet and feeding raw meaty sea foods. There is actually a good deal of information on the net regarding aggregating anemones.
http://californiatidepools.com/anemones/
It's a nice little temperate tank.
http://californiatidepools.com/anemones/
It's a nice little temperate tank.
Really light is their main source of energy, you could not spot feed at all w/ proper lighting, but I'm not familiar w/ the light you've built, though I'd guess it may help to have closer to a 10k spectrum.
The darker tan one is pretty typical of what I see locally, some may have some blue or green to them.
Your upper one looks a little bleached, maybe spot feed some mysis to help it recover, 1-2 x per week.
The darker tan one is pretty typical of what I see locally, some may have some blue or green to them.
Your upper one looks a little bleached, maybe spot feed some mysis to help it recover, 1-2 x per week.
Roy 9121
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That seems to long to me. I run my lights about 10 hours.
