Anemone Bleaching Due to Low Salinity?

[Dragen Fiend]

Well I'm finally hitting crossroad with my small nem tank. I got one black widow and 3 rbtas. The 3 rbtas are fine. But the black widow has started to bleach. I wasn't really paying attention I though it was the light intensity since switching from kessil 80 to dalua pixel LED then back to Kessil 160. But I have been slacking on the tank and must have messed up my mixing.

I tested the salinity last night and it was 1.018! So now begs the question. Do we think this is the cause of the bleaching? Its odd the other nems are not impacted. Its fully inflated and its usual self. Just bleaching.

Thoughts?

I started to slowly bring it up. Sat at 1.019-20 this morning. Will raise it back to 1.026 by Sunday. I'm sure with the low salinity all my parameters are whack now. ugh!

 

[CrayHawk]

What is the age of the tank and how long have the nems been in there? I know some nems don’t play well with each other, but not sure if that would cause bleaching.

Lighting should be fine.

 

[Dragen Fiend]

What is the age of the tank and how long have the nems been in there? I know some nems don’t play well with each other, but not sure if that would cause bleaching.

Lighting should be fine.

Here's my tank thread for this one: Nem tank

Its 6+ months old now. Black widow has been in there for 5 months give or take. I used all ocean liverock. Never had any issues until now. I did just replace carbon a few days ago. Maybe its finally hit a point where the nems don't like each other lol.

I feed the nem once a week with frozen cubes mixture of mysis/shrimp brine, phyto and zooplankton.