Hello fellow reefheads.. First post here... i bought an anemone from my LFS 8 days ago and he is still hiding in this cave from the light. It is my first anemone and it has this crazy crazy vibrant pink color to it, like way more vibrant then the other BTAs. Healthy looking foot, dark brownish color, but the mouth is white. I got it like that at the store, hopefully its not bleached? Otherwise It looks happy and on the first night it attached itself to the rocks in a place it seems to be filling out nice during the day and having my hermies walk right into him, also it gets food from the nice flow that brings brine shrimp right to it when i feed a cube in the tank (twice daily for the fishies, picky buggers dont like pellets). Then he shrinks up at night, mouth closed.
This location is unideal on both means of me losing my hermies(not a huge issue)... and but you know, hes hiding in a freakin cave without much light and we cant see him!
So this leads me to a 2 part question, 1 is this even a BTA? The more i look online im thinkin my fish store was lyin, they sold me and charged it as a BTA. so what kind of anemone is this? Hopefully i can get a decent enough pic its kinda squishy in that cave. And part 2 is, at what point should i move the rock or flip it over to stop this cave situation? or should i just leave it in its lame cave out of sight? im off work for the next 2 months thankfully so i can watch it like a hawk.
Tank is 6 months old (I know a little early, forgive me)
Red Sea Reefer 425xl (98gal plus sump)
Runs skimmer 24/7, refugium, filter socks and carbon. UV light also
Red Sea 160s lights (60%blue, 30%white)
Temp: 79f (stable)
PH: 8.4
Nitrate: 7.2 (trying to keep around 5)
KH: 9.5 (fairly stable, dose 33ml/day)
Phosph: .08 (added tiny too much other day, should be a little lower)
Salinity: 34.5 (stable)
Calcium: 450 (stable)
Mg: 1300
Thanks Everyone!!
Photos turned out kind of orange because of the filter on the lens, and it actually looks more like a BTA in the photo than it does in person. but if it is BTA, then the mouth probably shouldnt be white, no?
also, to be able to see the anemone for the photo i have to go to the back of my tank and lean my head over really awkwardly, the big cave photo is where he is hiding in the back of which is what we look at from the front of the tank.
This location is unideal on both means of me losing my hermies(not a huge issue)... and but you know, hes hiding in a freakin cave without much light and we cant see him!
So this leads me to a 2 part question, 1 is this even a BTA? The more i look online im thinkin my fish store was lyin, they sold me and charged it as a BTA. so what kind of anemone is this? Hopefully i can get a decent enough pic its kinda squishy in that cave. And part 2 is, at what point should i move the rock or flip it over to stop this cave situation? or should i just leave it in its lame cave out of sight? im off work for the next 2 months thankfully so i can watch it like a hawk.
Tank is 6 months old (I know a little early, forgive me)
Red Sea Reefer 425xl (98gal plus sump)
Runs skimmer 24/7, refugium, filter socks and carbon. UV light also
Red Sea 160s lights (60%blue, 30%white)
Temp: 79f (stable)
PH: 8.4
Nitrate: 7.2 (trying to keep around 5)
KH: 9.5 (fairly stable, dose 33ml/day)
Phosph: .08 (added tiny too much other day, should be a little lower)
Salinity: 34.5 (stable)
Calcium: 450 (stable)
Mg: 1300
Thanks Everyone!!
Photos turned out kind of orange because of the filter on the lens, and it actually looks more like a BTA in the photo than it does in person. but if it is BTA, then the mouth probably shouldnt be white, no?
also, to be able to see the anemone for the photo i have to go to the back of my tank and lean my head over really awkwardly, the big cave photo is where he is hiding in the back of which is what we look at from the front of the tank.