m0nk3y69d
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Hello everyone and I am starting this thread because I want to be able to help others with reviving anemones. I was at my local LFS today when I saw this anemone labeled as a pacific long tentical and I new it was wrong right away. I knew it was a bubble tip right off just not sure what color because it was bleached out. Here is a pic from the LFS.
I decided not to buy it but go home and do some research on how to bring back bleached out anemones. And I of corse decided I wanted to try just not for the $40 he wanted. Now I already have a LTA that is rather large as shown here with my maroon clown.
I will be upgrading to a 75 from my current 55 soon the tank build is under way and I wanted to sell my LTA and clown and get a bubble tip with a pair of clowns most likely Picasso clowns. Here is my 75 in progress.
So after a few hours I went back to the LFS and I was able to convince the owner that it was bleached out and not happy. So he sold it to me for $5. After I got home and did all my acclimating I put it in the tank and it looked better then it did at the LFS. It was definitely bleached but under my Chinese led (witch I love by the way) I noticed it had a tiny of green to it. So I am assuming it's a green bubble tip. Here it is under my led during the day and under just actinic led.
Now it did move a little at first but as stayed put for several hours with the lights off. So what I'm planning is feeding it every day for a while until it gets it color back then cutting back to just once a week feedings like I do with my LTA.
So let me know what you guys think and I will update as often as I can on the nem. I would love to hear any ideas anyone has on this process and let me know what you think. Thanks guys.
I decided not to buy it but go home and do some research on how to bring back bleached out anemones. And I of corse decided I wanted to try just not for the $40 he wanted. Now I already have a LTA that is rather large as shown here with my maroon clown.
I will be upgrading to a 75 from my current 55 soon the tank build is under way and I wanted to sell my LTA and clown and get a bubble tip with a pair of clowns most likely Picasso clowns. Here is my 75 in progress.
So after a few hours I went back to the LFS and I was able to convince the owner that it was bleached out and not happy. So he sold it to me for $5. After I got home and did all my acclimating I put it in the tank and it looked better then it did at the LFS. It was definitely bleached but under my Chinese led (witch I love by the way) I noticed it had a tiny of green to it. So I am assuming it's a green bubble tip. Here it is under my led during the day and under just actinic led.
Now it did move a little at first but as stayed put for several hours with the lights off. So what I'm planning is feeding it every day for a while until it gets it color back then cutting back to just once a week feedings like I do with my LTA.
So let me know what you guys think and I will update as often as I can on the nem. I would love to hear any ideas anyone has on this process and let me know what you think. Thanks guys.
