No zoox is brown or yellow. they do contain pigment to which give their host certain colors. but the zoox itself is brown or yellow. science, not semantics BTW.
I'm a fuel systems engineer for an OEM and know very little about salt water science but lots about mechanical things. I enjoy trading information and always search out the more scholarly people on here as I trust that advice much more. I'll keep this forum going as I'm wondering what will happen to mine. If all the Zooxan is brown, what causes the green/pinks/red colors in anemones?
I appreciate both of your advice
Also, if someone has anemone under radion, and I have a kessil, how long until the nem starts to change color and how long until complete change in color? Give me an average or example, not "it depends" please
Well look at it this way when you see a color you are seeing what wavelengths are being reflected by that surface. for example, if you're looking at a blue object the reason why you see it as blue is because that certain color wavelength is being reflected the most. the bright color you see in plants and in photosynthetic animals are pigments these pigments are used for reflecting and absorbing wavelengths. they do this to optimize photosynthesis and to protect them from wavelengths that might be harmful to them. Pigments take a lot of energy to make and they are constantly being made as pigments do break down on a regular basis. Depending on what pigments the zooxan in the coral are producing determine the color that you see in the coral. Another example of a pigment we will use trees instead of coral. The most common pigment is trees and plants is chlorophyl A this we see as green and all spring and summer long the trees are making this pigment constantly along with a few other different pigments, but we see the green because it is the most abundant pigment in the leaf and it out washes all the other colors they produce. When the the tree stops producing pigments let's say in the fall the chlorophyl A is the first to break down it starts to break down a lot faster than the other pigments, which is why we see the leaves changing colors as the more dominant chlorophyl A diminishes we can see the other pigments. eventually all the pigments break down and the leaf will turn brown and fall off of the tree. I hope this gives you a good understanding of pigments as for your other question I'm sorry but I can't give a definite answers as to how long it takes for the anemone to change color or become it original color
Well pigments don't grow they are produced my the zooxan, cipro can kill a lot of the zooxan in the animal causing to looked bleached or discolored. im sure if you keep your lights at what you've normally kept them at the population of zooxan in the anemone will go back to normal numbers. They will produce pigments again and hopefully they will be the same pigments originally produced best of luck this just needs time and patience maybe take weekly photographs of the anemone so if there is re coloration we will have the pictures to look at
