Hi,

I am new to SW tanks, I am having problems with my bubble tip anemone. I have a 12g Aquapod with 24W 50/50 full spectrum/Blue actinic lights.

My anemone is new, I got it the beginning of june,from liveaquaria.com quarantined it for 4 weeks and put it into my tank. I have been keeping close eye on it and it seems to have expelled its zooanthelle and appears bleached.

I have noticed that on some days it looks more puffed out when the lights are off, but I saw it one day and it looked like it was sticking its stomach out. I turned the lights back on and it seemed to recover. Since I have had this anemone it goes through periods where it shrivels up and has its mouth gaping open.

I haven't seen it eat, though I have placed chopped up shrimp near its mouth and also brine shrimp. I have also used Kent Marine Microvert every few days.

I supplement the tank with Iodine, Liquid Calcium, Strontium & Molybdenum and Essential Elements weekly after I do a water change (normally 2 gallons, but i have done 3-4 recently to try and improve the water for my sick anemone).

In my tank I have two Ocellaris clowns, one regular orange and one Black. I have a lawnmower Blenny, 1 scarlet hermit, 1 dwarf zebra hermit, 1 dwarf blue legged hermit, 1 sexy anemone shrimp, 2 Super tongan nassarius snails, 3 magarita snails (i believe), and 3 astrea conehead snails, and 1 blue tux urchin. Everything in the tank looks fine except the urchin has lost some of its blue while i QTed it.

I have tested 0ppm for ammonia, nitrite, nitrate. pH 8.2, salinity or 28.5, temp 82F, and alkalinity of 300ppm.

Any suggestions for help?

Thanks.

I have a link to my flikr page with pics of my BTA (named HANK). You can see from the first pic to the last/video, the loss of color.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/40556294@N08/sets/72157621390302357/

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