Recovery of bleeched BTA

anglfish · #1 11-14-2006, 10:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Quagmire

Is there any color at all? Or is it pure white? .

it is bright neon pink. sometimes deep deon pink depending on how much it is extended. it is however transparent-ish towards the body. I read that this ANY anomone would have a brown-base colour, so in the case of a RBTA it should be dark non-transparent red-ish.
Of course the LFS said it wasn't bleeched, but....
I knew when I got it that there is a good chance that it it bleeched and that I might get myself into trouble.

It looked healthy otherwise so I took the risk.

Thanks Bev for all those videos. Some of them I knew and admired before.
And we all know the infamous BTA POOP video, don't we

That was awesome. I actually tried to pull off something similar the other day but don't seem to be as coordinated with it and sucked in a tentacle as well

Rosie (BTA) was mad at me after so I won't try that again.

Tony, thanks so much for all this info. I'm quiet reliefed to hear that Rosie's behavior is not as unusual as I thought. Also I'm glad that I can't harm her increasing the feeding. I too read a few threads on RC that sounded rather alarming about Anemones dying due to overfeeding

Thanks again for all your advice. You guys are the best.

SeaHorse_Fanatic · #2 11-14-2006, 11:03 PM

I have one LTA that was doing great until my powerhead fell against it & sucked up 3/4 of the anemone. Surprisingly, the anemone survived. It went from 12" diameter to 2". It crawled into a cave, where my female gold striped maroon fed it with mysis & small scallops pieces. After about 3 months, it finally came out (3" in size) & it was pure white (bleached) with beautiful neon green and orange tips. It's been about 3 months since it came back out & now it expands to 8" or more. It's browned up but still has those beautiful tips.

I'm really glad mine recovered & got over being bleached out as well because I've had this one for at least 4 years now & it's a real trooper. My wife loved it when it was white with coloured tips, but oh well.

Your's sounds like its being well taken care of. Good luck.

Anthony