Sad anemone?

[Mwhitedesigns]

Good morning class,
I have a RBTA that I’ve had for about a 2 months now. I was just curious on what you guys think it looks like. It just doesn’t seem completely happy. Tentacles are sticky. I feed bits of raw shrimp once a week. It happily grabs the shrimp quickly. All my corals are doing great and growing fast. Fish are great and happy I’ll active.

The picture isn’t the best. Can’t find a way for my iPhone 7s to take a good picture and retain the colors i see. I’ve tried the camera + app without success.

Parameters are as follows for my Fluval Evo V.

Salinity-1.026
Temp-78
Ammonia-0
Nitrites-0
Nitrates-5-10
Ph8.1
Phosphates-.05

Running USA Marine orbit IC loop lights.
Reds-0
Greens-10
Blues-100
Whites-8

 

[Mike78]

Looks ok to me. I noticed when I lowered my light intensity my BTA's extended out a little be more.

 

[Mwhitedesigns]

Looks ok to me. I noticed when I lowered my light intensity my BTA's extended out a little be more.

Thanks for chiming in. Do you have any suggestions for the color settings on my light?

 

[Mike78]

I'm not too familiar with all the fancy lights out there. I have 165w black box with 2 channels. Ch. 1 are blues set at 60% Ch. 2 are whites,greens and reds set at 20%. Also they will move around if not happy

 

[Mwhitedesigns]

Thanks. It’s been in the same spot since I’ve gotten it.

 

[davocean]

Looks fine to me.

 

[Mical]

Looks OK, you might up the "whites" in your lights maybe to 30% (Do it gradually over days and weeks)

Mine love more white than blue

 

[Mical]

more whites

 

[Mwhitedesigns]

Thanks guys. I’ll try upping the whites some. I kept it more blue because that was closer to what they had in the LFS.

I just remember the edges being inflated more when i initially got it. I’ll try honing In on what she likes best.

 

[Brian6119]

more whites

I have a quick question about your coral setup... the two greens on the left, what are they? Are both green star polyps? Or is one a GSP and the other something different? Thank you!

 

[Katrina71]

Is it getting a lot of flow?

 

[Bayareareefer18]

Looks good to me. I run the ic pros on my tank but I am also supplementing with an orphek uv bar and a reefbrite lumilite pro

I run my blues at 100 and whites at 60

 

[Mical]

I have a quick question about your coral setup... the two greens on the left, what are they? Are both green star polyps? Or is one a GSP and the other something different? Thank you!

Both are GSP

 

[Brian6119]

Thank you

 

[laverda]

You BTA does not look bad at this point, although it is an unusual place to see one. BTAs usually like to be higher in the tank in my experience. They also prefer to have their foot in a hole in a rock or the underside of a rock. I can not tell if that is the case or not here. It looks like it is on a single rock by its self. The will not move across sand and will detach and float around to find a better place. That is how they end up in power heads. If you want to keep it in that area away from your other corals I would add another rock for it to climb up higher on. I would not base how the lights looked at the LFS as a good basis for proper lighting. Most do not light anemones properly at all. That is why you see so many bleached anemones. At best they light them to show off the colors so things sell, hence lots of blue.