Recently purchased - Does this BTA look healthy?

DHouse

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Bought this BTA about two weeks ago and was wondering if it was a good purchase. Eating well, very sticky and has moved from one side of the rock it is on to the other. When I purchased, instead of them taking it off of the rock, they give the rock to me as to not harm the BTA. To me, it kind of looks brownish and in some cases clear but in the early morning and evening my moon lights take over for about an hour and this BTA is a dark green color. I'm kind of new on the anemone side of the hobby (had fish for a long time) but just wanted to make sure this wasn't starting to get bleached. My parameters seem to be fine:

Nitrates - less that 5ppm
Nitrites - 0
Ammonia - 0
Ph - 8.2
Phosphates - 0
Cal - 420
Temp - 77f
Salinity - 1.024

Also, I have four clowns that will not host this anemone. What can be done about this?

Thanks,

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Stop feeding the anemone.
Wait for the tank raised clowns to find it. They may take a year, or you could 1/2 full a 5 gallon bucket drop the rock and nem in and add clowns and they will find it sooner than later.
Don’t feed the nem, let it catch drift food like natural.
 

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Looks fine. If you aren't running blues, you won't see intense color.
 

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