Help with BTA? Stressed?

[saxplaya]

Hello all! Fairly new to the forum and really became acquainted over the last weekend with the WWC Live Sale!

We have a BTA for a few months now and it’s not behaving like it should for some time. When we first got it I put it where I wanted it and it walked all around as I knew it likely would. It stayed in the back of the tank with minimal flow for a few days but was bubbles up nicely and would just change size some through the night but would retain the bubbles and color.

For a while now it’s been in the same spot over on one side behind a rock and it will extend in the late morning into the light around the front with some flow and have darker tentacles never bubbled, will then retract into a little ‘cup’ for some time and repeat this cycle a couple times a day normally.

The color isn’t the same and I hadn’t given much credence just figured it was being like a normal anemone but we just got some fish two days ago including a couple very young clowns and we want to try and get them to host the BTA but that’s hard to do if it doesn’t stay out and big so I’m looking for some help!

Last time I checked parameters the salinity was steady 1.026 with ATO, other parameters were steady and good. We have 9 other corals all doing very well and happy from chalice, blasto, acan, Euphyllia, leather and candy cane fat and happy so I don’t think it’s the water. I have not been spot feeding it.

Running 2 Viparspectra lights over this 75g with the left at 35% blue 2% white and the right side at I believe 25% blue 2% white.

Pictures/video below of the BTA early the first week or two, and this last Sunday in its biggest form of late and what it looks like pulled in.

The ‘cup’ state picture is from 20min after I flipped around the rock it’s attached to. I can flip it back so it’s in shadow if deemed better.

 

[jtf74]

The color doesn't look all that bad just less pink and darker is better than lighter, and the short bubble tips come and go, and they normally kind of deflate somewhat at night, so nothing jumps out to me. Though I run the exact same lights (mine is 300 watts) on my RBTA's, but at much higher numbers. I'm at about 60% blue and 50% white with about 12 hours blue and 9 hours white each day.

 

[saxplaya]

The color doesn't look all that bad just less pink and darker is better than lighter, and the short bubble tips come and go, and they normally kind of deflate somewhat at night, so nothing jumps out to me. Though I run the exact same lights (mine is 300 watts) on my RBTA's, but at much higher numbers. I'm at about 60% blue and 50% white with about 12 hours blue and 9 hours white each day.

Thank you for the feedback. I am wanting to rent a PAR meter from BRS so I can get hard numbers on everything. I have the white where they are because I was getting algae growth but I had high PO4 which with my dual reactor up and going a couple months now I think that’s under control and the blue I didn’t want to overpower anything and I only had softies and LPS so far but I do have a couple SPS coming from my live sale purchases so I may need to crank it some. I have a combined 300W between the two lights. They are on 12hrs blue with 5hrs white in roughly the middle of the day.