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I've got a very strange anemone.. When i just got him/her, he/she was red.. just like it should be.. but when i put it in a new aquarium, with more light, he/she turn into a pink beauty ( i don't mind! )

Red..


Not in the mood for the moving..


Just a nice pic


A little les red..


And in 2 days she was pink!






When he/she get some food, he/she turns into the strangest sizes.. like yesterday this one:




And Mini wants to say hi!!


Isn't it a beauty! Next weekend i'll get 2 more... i hope they also turn pink!

That's beautiful! The last ones look like hearts! Congrats!

I KNOW

The last one does looks like a heart, very cool

The heart is very cute but your anemone is bleaching. http://www.karensroseanemones.net/zooxanthellaeloss.htm
Please go through this site: http://www.karensroseanemones.net.

Thx Pufferpunk!

To bad i can't copy, it's to hard to understand al the text without translation.. Some people also told me it was because of to many light. But i dont understand, when it was 240lt it has as much light as now.. and now he is only 110lt..

Maybee because i don't use osmosis water? I give my anemone the same food as my puffer.. I cut it very fine and give it with a needle thing ( without the needle ) so i don't know what he/she wants than..

What kind of light are you using? Where do you keep your water temperature?

What kind of light do you have over it currently? They need very high light, 110 liters/29gallons, you are going to want something like a 150watt+ HQI MH or as many T5s as you can fit (with individual reflectors).

Defiantly bleached, this happens when there is not enough light for the anemone, it looses the Zooanthellae algae, which is a symbiotic algae that feeds the anemone. This happens with corals as well. For instance I gave a frag of kenyan tree to a friend to just test if his tank could even keep a easy coral, with in a week the kenyan turned pure white and shrank.

Food and more light will help it recover. RO/DI will help. Check water parameters, high nitrates may also cause this.

Oh and to copy stuff from her website, just high light and hit control-c then paste in to the translator with control-v.

Use this for translation: http://www.babelfish.com.

You can translate a page, a paragraph or the whole darn site!

Pufferpunk wrote:Use this for translation: http://www.babelfish.com.

You can translate a page, a paragraph or the whole darn site!

But i can't copy the site.. than i should type over every word.. I don't understand what mekong is saying about the translation.. ???

Anyway, i think i understand the most But that HQI.. i dont know why that should be.. a rule is 1 watt per ltr.. i have 3 x 30watt and 1 x 18 watt. And that was the same when the tank was 240ltr.. And in that time my anemone was just red. I have anemones for 2.5 year now, and never i had so much light as i have now..

That story of HQI.. for an anemone? You say, 150 watt + hqi for an 110liter tank???? That's crazy.. and i've never seen anybody who has that.. Even not when the tank is ful of rock coral.. I'm very confused now.. The thing i go from a 1.20 tank to a 0.80 tank was the light, and now you say that it is to little.. i realy don't understand..

bauk wrote:i have 3 x 30watt and 1 x 18 watt.

That story of HQI.. for an anemone? You say, 150 watt + hqi for an 110liter tank???? That's crazy.. and i've never seen anybody who has that.. Even not when the tank is ful of rock coral.. I'm very confused now.. The thing i go from a 1.20 tank to a 0.80 tank was the light, and now you say that it is to little.. i realy don't understand..

Are your bulbs VHO or HO? t5? Either way, i'm not sure if 118 watts is enough for an anemone. I'm not sure what you read about HQI but it means means hydrargyrum quartz iodide but usually just referring to a double ended metal halide. I have 500 watts on 174liter tank so it's not too crazy. A 150w hqi would only be one bulb over your whole tank. It's not as much as you would think. LOL... who told you too much lighting?

jdak wrote:

bauk wrote:i have 3 x 30watt and 1 x 18 watt.

That story of HQI.. for an anemone? You say, 150 watt + hqi for an 110liter tank???? That's crazy.. and i've never seen anybody who has that.. Even not when the tank is ful of rock coral.. I'm very confused now.. The thing i go from a 1.20 tank to a 0.80 tank was the light, and now you say that it is to little.. i realy don't understand..

Are your bulbs VHO or HO? t5? Either way, i'm not sure if 118 watts is enough for an anemone. I'm not sure what you read about HQI but it means means hydrargyrum quartz iodide but usually just referring to a double ended metal halide. I have 500 watts on 174liter tank so it's not too crazy. A 150w hqi would only be one bulb over your whole tank. It's not as much as you would think. LOL... who told you too much lighting?

Even with translate i don't understand the hole part

But here is a standart 1 watt for 1ltr is right.. It's in every forum here in Holland.. ( there are people with more, but that are the people with the rock coral ) But than i still not understand why he was red bij 240ltr and now by 110ltr he's pink..

Translation is rough, at best but fairly understandable.

bauk wrote:But here is a standart 1 watt for 1ltr is right.. It's in every forum here in Holland.. ( there are people with more, but that are the people with the rock coral ) But than i still not understand why he was red bij 240ltr and now by 110ltr he's pink..

Simply not enough light! Watts per gallon means pretty much nothing. Its all about PAR rating, that is how much photo-active radiation, or how much usable light actually penetrates the water. You are going to need at least a high output T5 4-6 bulb system like one of these:

http://www.reefgeek.com/lighting/T5_Flu ... ofit_Kits/

That or metal halides. Anemones need as much light as the most demanding stony corals!

But i can't copy the site.. than i should type over every word

Can't you highlight the text & copy & then paste? You can hit Ctrl C for "copy" & then Ctrl V to "paste", anything you have highlited. Or copuy the entire yrl in the proper section of the page, to translate the entire site.

This might work...
http://translate.google.com/translate?j ... l=en&tl=fr