Bubble tipped sea anemone tips shrunk and turned green

[kyleflahardy]

I bought a bubble tipped sea anemone yesterday and today some of its tentacles have shrunken and turned green. My other sea anemone (Not bubble tipped) tentacles often shrink but never change color. Is this normal?

 

[pga7602]

Do you have a picture to share?

 

[kyleflahardy]

I'm sorry I don't know how to share a picture. I'm new to this.

 

[mandarin417]

My bubble tips go through all sorts of cycles that I cannot attribute to anything I do to the tank. Depending on how inflated or deflated they are, the tentacles appear to change colors. Much more green when deflated and more constricted. Sometime they have bubble tips at the end of the tentacle, other times bubbles further down from the tip, sometimes fat finger looking tentacles especially after ingesting a piece of shrimp, other times skinny long tentacles and occasionally shrunken down to a small messy blob. I used to worry about these changes but have come to realize it's all normal for my nems. Used to be one but split a few months ago.

 

[RJinPV]

I second what mandarin417 posted. My RBTA odes the same thing. More green in the tentacles when the are deflated. My one RBTA has now split into 3 over the course of a year

 

[mandarin417]

This is how one of my bubble tipped nems looked when the halide came on this morning. She was fed yesterday a small bit of shrimp. Probably about 6 or so inches across. Lighting is a super actinic BML LED strip in front of a 250W Radium 20K halide offset on the other side of the tank so the nem is not getting full halide illumination. It is hosting a female Spotcinctus clown who has an eye dot only on one side - so named Dot. The male (who is named Spot) is around the corner hosted in the sister of this nem. Throughout the day the male and female will share the back nem. The female doesn't let the male host in her nem.