Bringing bleached anemone back

[Drichards]

Does anyone in the club have experience bringing a bleached anemone back to full Vibrance? Wondering if there is a secret recipe of enriching their food to promote zoo growth? This guy is in ruff shape, but keeps hanging on. Initially I treated with Cipro but had no effect on him. I want him so badly to do well, he's one of my two Csb's. Guts are not out or anything, just shortened tentacles and all grayed out. Been like this for months. Not seeing any forward or backward momentum

 

[Drichards]

These two used to be twins. Bleached one is on the right. Ironically they both spawned right after Thanksgiving. It was remarkable to see. Happened right before lights out . They are however two males.

 

[Jmalin]

What are you feeding it? I have never seen a grey bleached nem. Your situation is funky for a bleached nem good lighting and feeding helps, don’t have to feed anything crazy even deshelled frozen shrimp pieces work. Stable parameters are key as well. I have been bringing back nems colors that lost color just with better lighting. Feeding makes it faster though in my opinion and it grows a lot faster that way too. I have done both ways to get some nems to regain color.

 

[Drichards]

What are you feeding it? I have never seen a grey bleached nem. Your situation is funky for a bleached nem good lighting and feeding helps, don’t have to feed anything crazy even deshelled frozen shrimp pieces work. Stable parameters are key as well. I have been bringing back nems colors that lost color just with better lighting. Feeding makes it faster though in my opinion and it grows a lot faster that way too. I have done both ways to get some nems to regain color.

Been feeding shrimp since I got it. I run ai Prime's on somewhat of a modified AB schedule. Other csb is fine. I don't think better lighting ofr shrimp will do it for this guy. Tank is several years old and stable

 

[Jmalin]

That’s why I’m saying your situation is funky, it’s not the typical bleached anemone something else is going on in my opinion.

 

[Drichards]

Is there was a way to inject live zooxanthellae in? Or even transfer from another nem? I've heard stories of people feeding it at tentacle from a healthy anemone but I have no scientific data

 

[Jmalin]

I wouldn’t try that, and people on forums say cipro can remove the color from the nems.

 

[TimSlate]

my RBTA bleached and ive been feeing it amino acids and its slowly starting to get it color back

 

[Drichards]

I wouldn’t try that, and people on forums say cirpo and remove the color from the nems.

Cipro removes color from nems??

 

[Drichards]

my RBTA bleached and ive been feeing it amino acids and its slowly starting to get it color back

my RBTA bleached and ive been feeing it amino acids and its slowly starting to get it color back

@TimSlate what kind of aminos?

 

[TimSlate]

ive been mixing ab+ and brightwell coral aminos is been slowly workin over the past month

 

[Xhxxh]

How long have the two anemones been together? Could they be fighting for territory? I recently came across this video talked about anemone fight.

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Its strange one is doing well and the other one isnt when they are in the same tank. Are they also the same kind? I know anemones dont do well together if they are diff kind.

 

[Jmalin]

Cipro removes color from nems??

According to some forums they said sometimes cipro can cause a varying degree of bleaching.

 

[Drichards]

ive been mixing ab+ and brightwell coral aminos is been slowly workin over the past month

I also broadcast feed AB+ to the whole tank daily

 

[Drichards]

According to some forums they said sometimes cipro can cause a varying degree of bleaching.

That's odd, all I've seen is proven methods for antibiotic treatment for nems using Cipro. Csbs are weaker then other nems however

 

[Drichards]

How long have the two anemones been together? Could they be fighting for territory? I recently came across this video talked about anemone fight.

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Its strange one is doing well and the other one isnt when they are in the same tank. Are they also the same kind? I know anemones dont do well together if they are diff kind.

I've had them well over a year. Same species, same strain and lineage. They both came out of a tank filled with them from a breeder.

 

[Drichards]

How long have the two anemones been together? Could they be fighting for territory? I recently came across this video talked about anemone fight.

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Its strange one is doing well and the other one isnt when they are in the same tank. Are they also the same kind? I know anemones dont do well together if they are diff kind.

Mixing csbs with other anemones is a big no no. I've had bad results mixing anemones in general. I do have rainbows mixed with black widows in a small 15 gallon Peninsula and they are flourishing. In the past I've mixed and had less desirable results

 

[Jmalin]

Mixing csbs with other anemones is a big no no. I've had bad results mixing anemones in general. I do have rainbows mixed with black widows in a small 15 gallon Peninsula and they are flourishing. In the past I've mixed and had less desirable results

I got my csb from a tank with 25 rainbows, and 17 csb they were all touching. I also had my csb in my tank with widows and rainbows no issues. Right now currently have 2 csb and 4 widows in the same tank. I did remove the rainbows just incase there was some type of possible chemical warfare. Also thought of wild nems introducing a bacteria the aquaculture’s nems can’t handle over the chemical warfare aspect. But there are people who have successful nem tanks with over 11 different kinds of bubble tips.

 

[Drichards]

I got my csb from a tank with 25 rainbows, and 17 csb they were all touching. I also had my csb in my tank with widows and rainbows no issues. Right now currently have 2 csb and 4 widows in the same tank. I did remove the rainbows just incase there was some type of possible chemical warfare. Also thought of wild nems introducing a bacteria the aquaculture’s nems can’t handle over the chemical warfare aspect. But there are people who have successful nem tanks with over 11 different kinds of bubble tips.

I've seen people have luck mixing, but then I've seen catastrophes also. I mixed several before, widows, Sherman's, acid rains Joker's Etc, they all died except one. The guy who sold me the csbs in Connecticut said explicitly don't mix them. In fact he told me he would not sell to me if I was mixing them with other nems. I'm sure a lot of different factors come into play, tank size, wilds Etc. When paying close to a g bar for a nem I'd rather not take the chance. Do you have a picture of the widows and the csbs? Those are hands down my two favorites. I have two widows and 3 rainbows in another tank with zero issue.

 

[Jmalin]

I've seen people have luck mixing, but then I've seen catastrophes also. I mixed several before, widows, Sherman's, acid rains Joker's Etc, they all died except one. The guy who sold me the csbs in Connecticut said explicitly don't mix them. In fact he told me he would not sell to me if I was mixing them with other nems. I'm sure a lot of different factors come into play, tank size, wilds Etc. When paying close to a g bar for a nem I'd rather not take the chance. Do you have a picture of the widows and the csbs? Those are hands down my two favorites. I have two widows and 3 rainbows in another tank with zero issue.

I hear ya I have heard it to that’s why I removed the rainbows. Only reason I didn’t remove the widows was I didn’t have a good place to put them and didn’t want them to die, cause I have been trading them for corals. This was back in September after it split. It’s a lot bigger than that again. I can try and get another pic sometime.