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Welcome!So I’m fairly new to salt tank keeping. I was given an established 30 gallon tank with 2 clownfish and 2 yellowtail damsels, one feather duster worm and a “cleaning crew with some snails and crabs. I had a green bubble algae outbreak and bought an emerald crab. Emerald crab is doing his job and doing it well.. but while I was at the reef/fish store I also fell in love with a little green and purple BTA! I’ve done a couple of feedings with freeze dried brine shrimp and Kent Marine microvert.. the anemone doesn’t seem to be the same color and I wondered what I’m doing wrong? Or if this is normal?
Have you changed your lights/flow, and how large is it/how quickly did you feed it after putting it in your tank? I changed my lights trying to accommodate a duncan that didn't want to open raising the blues. Where the anemone had decided it liked was higher in the tank and it began the process of splitting almost immediately. I feed it once a week a piece or 2 of mysis shrimp, by dropping it on the tentacles and allowing the anemone to draw it in and it seems to really do well, but mines a smaller specimen. Once I lowered the lights back a little the anemone flourished again no longer looking like it wanted to split and bubbled out nicely. They're odd creatures who hate change.So I’m fairly new to salt tank keeping. I was given an established 30 gallon tank with 2 clownfish and 2 yellowtail damsels, one feather duster worm and a “cleaning crew with some snails and crabs. I had a green bubble algae outbreak and bought an emerald crab. Emerald crab is doing his job and doing it well.. but while I was at the reef/fish store I also fell in love with a little green and purple BTA! I’ve done a couple of feedings with freeze dried brine shrimp and Kent Marine microvert.. the anemone doesn’t seem to be the same color and I wondered what I’m doing wrong? Or if this is normal?