Blue long tentacle anemone

KMHREEFER · Feb 10, 2019

So I picked up a nice large blue long tentacle anemone about a month ago for my 2 clowns and after a few hour acclimation, it settled its foot deep in the sand. The next morning it had doubled in size and moved slightly below a rocky overhang. I’ve notice over the last few weeks that it has slowly been losing the blue color and been showing a lot more pink with an almost blue-green hue to the last inch or so of its tentacles. It eats really well, hasn’t moved at all and is fully inflated almost always so looks healthy to me but looking for some opinions on the color change. Too much light or not enough? I am using 2-16 inch SB reef lights about 8 inches of the water of a 21 inch tall tank. Have the blues at 100 percent and the whites at about 50 percent. All corals are thriving and the anemone has become more opaque compared to when I first brought it home, which I know is a good thing.

Here it is about 6 hours after being added to the tank.

Here it is now, one month later.

NY_Caveman · Feb 10, 2019

Beautiful anemone! Welcome to R2R!

Orion1885 · Feb 10, 2019

looks good to me, prob darkened up in response to better lighting in your system than LFS.

jsvand5 · Feb 10, 2019

Yea. It was bleached a bit when you got it and now it is much healthier. Nice looking anemone

KMHREEFER · Feb 10, 2019

Thanks for the responses. To be honest as long as it’s healthy I’m happy with whatever color it wants to be. Still blows my mind how big it got in such a short time. It’s been touching all its surrounding corals, both sps and lps and they don’t seem to mind at all so I’m pretty lucky because either can easily be moved.