anemone color loss

[brencrazy]

in my tank i battle color loss. they aren't bleaching they where neon colors but now they just wouldn't retain color

 

[tigastt]

How long has the tank been setup ? How long have you had the nems ?

 

[Tahoe61]

Lighting type please and duration of photo-period.

 

[Daniel@R2R]

+1 on the lighting questions.

 

[aabjones888]

Are u feeding?

 

[brencrazy]

How long has the tank been setup ? How long have you had the nems ?

6 months for both

 

[brencrazy]

Are u feeding?

yes i turn off the filters and dump brine in.

 

[brencrazy]

Lighting type please and duration of photo-period.

i built the light and its a 6000k led chip running from 6am to 9pm

 

[Tahoe61]

Is this a temperate system?

 

[brencrazy]

by the way this is a callifornia coast tank there are mussels in the tank hermit crabs and anemones. temp is around 61 degrees and the salt level 1.026 those levels are fine for the animals but the anemones lost color

 

[brencrazy]

Is this a temperate system?

yes its on the edge of coldwater and temperate.

 

[Tahoe61]

Since these are aggregating anemones the bleaching is probably related to a deficit in nutrition. Brine is probably not going to cut it. They are loosing their zooxanthellae, and I can not comment on the lighting because I am not familiar with the fixture but you may have to supplement the lighting. I would try adding some amino acids to the diet and feeding raw meaty sea foods. There is actually a good deal of information on the net regarding aggregating anemones.

http://californiatidepools.com/anemones/

It's a nice little temperate tank.

 

[brencrazy]

Since these are aggregating anemones the bleaching is probably related to a deficit in nutrition. Brine is probably not going to cut it. They are loosing their zooxanthellae, and I can not comment on the lighting because I am not familiar with the fixture but you may have to supplement the lighting. I would try adding some amino acids to the diet and feeding raw meaty sea foods. There is actually a good deal of information on the net regarding aggregating anemones.

http://californiatidepools.com/anemones/

It's a nice little temperate tank.

thank you i am copying a tank at monterey bay aqurium

 

[davocean]

Really light is their main source of energy, you could not spot feed at all w/ proper lighting, but I'm not familiar w/ the light you've built, though I'd guess it may help to have closer to a 10k spectrum.
The darker tan one is pretty typical of what I see locally, some may have some blue or green to them.
Your upper one looks a little bleached, maybe spot feed some mysis to help it recover, 1-2 x per week.

 

[Roy 9121]

i built the light and its a 6000k led chip running from 6am to 9pm

That seems to long to me. I run my lights about 10 hours.

 

[davocean]

Yeah I agree, 8 hrs w/ main lights and 10 hrs w/my LED strips, hour before and hour after mains for warm up/cool down

 

[brencrazy]

ok imma mix up the lights!

 

[brencrazy]

new lights really helped

 

[brencrazy]

 

[brencrazy]