Malu - bleached?

[Dolphin2409]

Hi

is this malu bleached or ‘normal’ colour?
It’s in the background behind the BTA

thanks

 

[James M]

Looks bleached

 

[Dolphin2409]

Follow on questions ..
if it is bleached then I assume it will either darken and survive or stay bleached and die. How long would this take?
Put another way, if it survives for x months without darkening would this mean it’s not actually bleached? If so, what is x?

 

[James M]

It’s bleached . Could take months to nurse it back to good health
Keep everything stable and do weekly feedings

 

[Dolphin2409]

It’s bleached . Could take months to nurse it back to good health
Keep everything stable and do weekly feedings

Thanks James - hopefully it pulls through. I’ll give progress update.

 

[alan3402]

It’s bleached . Could take months to nurse it back to good health
Keep everything stable and do weekly feedings

I agree.

When I nursed mine to health, I did twice a week feedings of very small amounts. You will really have to coax them to eat at first. I would turn off all flow for an hour at least and place a tiny amount of meaty food like shrimp or clam near the mouth and guard it from your fish stealing it it.

It took three weeks of this until the color began to return. As color returns, the portion size can increase and you can go to once per week feedings.

My Malu still likes once a week feedings

 

[Dolphin2409]

I agree.

When I nursed mine to health, I did twice a week feedings of very small amounts. You will really have to coax them to eat at first. I would turn off all flow for an hour at least and place a tiny amount of meaty food like shrimp or clam near the mouth and guard it from your fish stealing it it.

It took three weeks of this until the color began to return. As color returns, the portion size can increase and you can go to once per week feedings.

My Malu still likes once a week feedings

Cheers Alan

I’ve started to feed it so hopefully it starts to recover.

 

[Dolphin2409]

Latest photo….

 

[Dolphin2409]

Latest photo. 2 months and no change that I can notice. I try to get photo with fish in foreground just to validate colours are ‘real’.

 

[JonezNReef]

I had one in the past and it took forever to gain color. It was sold to me as a white Seabae so I didn’t know it would even gain color

 

[Dolphin2409]

I had one in the past and it took forever to gain color. It was sold to me as a white Seabae so I didn’t know it would even gain color

Once it doesn’t die I’m happy enough. Definitely wondering how long it will take to achieve its true colour though.

 

[Dolphin2409]

3 months. No real colour change that I can see

 

[JonezNReef]

Patients... still looking good. I currently have a Mag that’s bleached that’s taking its time coloring up too. As long as it’s not moving a lot, gapping mouth and/or inflating and deflating it should be good.

 

[Gp!]

This might interest you https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/zooxanthellae-transplant-for-bleached-anemones.758507/

 

[Dolphin2409]

Patients... still looking good. I currently have a Mag that’s bleached that’s taking its time coloring up too. As long as it’s not moving a lot, gapping mouth and/or inflating and deflating it should be good.

It’s not moving, not deflating and has good feeding response so think time is on my side.

 

[Dolphin2409]

This might interest you https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/zooxanthellae-transplant-for-bleached-anemones.758507/

Very interesting read. I do have BTAs in my tank but will give it a bit longer before trying the transplant route