Rock flower anemone color

[Delatedlotus]

My Rock Flower anemone's have turned brown.... Fast! I did kick up my lighting this morning for the first time in a while. I added a lot more sun light 50/50 and true sun VHO T-12's... Could this be it? I noticed it after about 5 hours - that is it! Most all color is gone and they are ALL brown looking. Not much color other than that BROWN. They are all on the floor of my tank, small rocks and in the sand bed... Please help!!

 

[fishguy242]

@F i s h y @Lost in the Sauce

 

[Garf]

My Rock Flower anemone's have turned brown.... Fast! I did kick up my lighting this morning for the first time in a while. I added a lot more sun light 50/50 and true sun VHO T-12's... Could this be it? I noticed it after about 5 hours - that is it! Most all color is gone and they are ALL brown looking. Not much color other than that BROWN. They are all on the floor of my tank, small rocks and in the sand bed... Please help!!

Dunno but lots of things look brown in sunlight.

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

My Rock Flower anemone's have turned brown.... Fast! I did kick up my lighting this morning for the first time in a while. I added a lot more sun light 50/50 and true sun T-12's... Could this be it? I noticed it after about 5 hours - that is it! Most all color is gone and they are ALL brown looking. They are all on the floor of my tank, small rocks and in the sand bed... Please help!!

Pic? Before/after could help.

What else has changed in the tank down to something small?

Over light exposure will make most RFA close up before being damaged.

Without knowing for sure, the easiest obvious thing to do would be to switch your light schedule back and see if they revert to normal coloration..

You also may want to remove the emergency tag. This doesn't really qualify.

 

[Delatedlotus]

Dunno but lots of things look brown in sunlight.

No not the case here... I will take some pics..

 

[F i s h y]

Yep pics please. And parameters, tank size, age, etc...

 

[Delatedlotus]

Dunno but lots of things look brown in sunlight.

Oh my... Oh my... LMBOFF fixed the problem.. you did....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LMBOFF here out loud.. Garf you are a genius sir: lol

 

[Garf]

Oh my... Oh my... LMBOFF fixed the problem.. you did....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LMBOFF here out loud.. Garf you are a genius sir: lol

Show us a pic of the tank.

 

[Pistondog]

Emergency averted thanks to @Garf.

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

Emergency averted thanks to @Garf.

And an Emergency Emergency no less

 

[Garf]

I go brown in sunlight. Unfortunately they don’t let me out that often.

 

[vetteguy53081]

My Rock Flower anemone's have turned brown.... Fast! I did kick up my lighting this morning for the first time in a while. I added a lot more sun light 50/50 and true sun VHO T-12's... Could this be it? I noticed it after about 5 hours - that is it! Most all color is gone and they are ALL brown looking. Not much color other than that BROWN. They are all on the floor of my tank, small rocks and in the sand bed... Please help!!

They may have bleached temporarily. Bright light can cause their inner algae called zooxanthellae to be expelled . The brown you see is the zooxanthallae trying to restore its energy and is affected by elevated temperature change, Hi elevated lighting, physical stress by highe salinity and phosphate,

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Going to change the title

 

[Garf]

Going to change the title

To, “I’ve changed my light spectrum and stuff looks different, explain”

 

[Delatedlotus]

Show us a pic of the tank.

 

[Delatedlotus]

Oh man, oh man.. All is under control here... I haven't run white lights in months! And when I did and I was gone for 5 hours and came back. All my rock flowers where an ugly brown.. I thought I was loosing them all, they are all on the bottom of the tank. In the sand and and on small flat cut rock pieces.. Holly....!

27 year set up, I got the flowers about a month ago 10 of them. And I was really scared.... lol. Most inportely THANK YOU to ALL... Thanks. One big happy family here like no other.. Thank you!

 

[Delatedlotus]

Thank you Garf...

 

[Delatedlotus]

Dunno but lots of things look brown in sunlight.

Thank You Garf...

 

[littlefishy]

I run daylight colors and stay away from the "ultra" rfa as they are plain in that spectrum. There are red, pink, etc that look great in daylight and are cheaper than ultras, too.

 

[Delatedlotus]

I run daylight colors and stay away from the "ultra" rfa as they are plain in that spectrum. There are red, pink, etc that look great in daylight and are cheaper than ultras, too.

Yes Agreed .. Now I have learned my lessons well... lol