See anemone with brown spots

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Hi everybody trying to figure out why my anemone is getting brown spots, seems to be doing healthy its tentacles have sent out and they are much longer but these brown spots I am puzzled.

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I'm probably wrong, but white anemones that start to turn brown are regaining their Zooxanthellae, which is a good thing.

I'm no nem expert, but that's what I recall from reading on the forums.
 
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Looks like a Haitian or condy anemone. Brown is their natural color if so. Is it accepting food and sticky? If so then nothing to worry about.
 
Many stores sell them as white which is actually bleached. When you see these spots, they are restoring their symbiotic algae and regaining their pigments, As long as tips are purple, youre ok. Light provides the progression of zooxanthellae and do feed 1-2 X per week. Mysis shrimp is a good source.
Moderate water flow.
 
Perfect thank you guys very much all good it seems and yes it gets fed a pretty decent size shrimp weekly, and it is a haitian.
 

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