What is the name of this?

[sgreen]

Hi...We have 3 white looking anemone's in our 90g tank and 1 in the 150g. We originally started out with 2 from the person we purchased the tank from, but they have split to make the 4 that we now have. Upon doing some research it was noted that if an anemone is white it is a bad thing because it is a sign that, that anemone has bleached because of insuffient lighting. These anemone's have started out white and have remained a white color for the last 3 months and continue to grow. There are other BTA's in both tanks that are not white and they are some what in the same locations as these 'white anemone's'. Just wondering if this is indeed white anemone's that we have?? :biggrin:

http://i1235.photobucket.com/albums/ff426/blondie3369/whiteanemone.jpg

http://i1235.photobucket.com/albums/ff426/blondie3369/whiteanemone2.jpg

http://i1235.photobucket.com/albums/ff426/blondie3369/IMG_0659.jpg

This last is a picture of a BTA that is in the one tank with the white one.

[fishoholic]

Not sure kinda looks like a bleached bta but I don't really know (re-posted your pic.'s so people wont have to click on the links) What type of lights are they under?

http://i1235.photobucket.com/albums/ff426/blondie3369/whiteanemone.jpg

http://i1235.photobucket.com/albums/ff426/blondie3369/whiteanemone2.jpg

http://i1235.photobucket.com/albums/ff426/blondie3369/IMG_0659.jpg

[phi delt reefer]

Limited Edition White Knight RBTA - sell it for $600 on R2R and make some cash :)

[fishoholic]

Limited Edition White Knight RBTA - sell it for $600 on R2R and make some cash :)

:rolleyes: No such thing

[Money pit]

Yes they do look like bleached BTAs . With very little zooxanthellae, they wont be able to get much food from the lights, what seems like growth is them reaching up and expanding to catch as much light as they can. If you can offer them a bit of food each day, they may start to recover. But just a tiny bit to begin with, until you know they are eating it. Often they will take the food but later spit it out when the lights are out, you don't want to feed a lot incase it fouls the tank. Mixed sea food is best, if you can puree it in a blender so its like a paste, it will be easier for them to digest leaving more energy for recovery. If you cant blend it, chop it up as fine as you can. BTA's will often split when they're stressed , it a survival tactic where one may die, but maybe the other will live. Keep your fingers crossed and may be you will end up with a few nice BTAs.

[MMAX]

:rolleyes: No such thing

I'm thinking that was a joke?

[phi delt reefer]

I'm thinking that was a joke?

B-I-N-G-O!

[fishoholic]

I'm thinking that was a joke?

Ya I kinda figured that but Susan and Jim are newish to the hobby, so I wanted to point out that it's not real so they don't think they guy was serious.

[sgreen]

To be honest...at first we were like "WOW..right on!!!" Who wouldn't want something like this to be true? People can dream about having something rare or exotic in their aquarium, no? But then we wondered why only one person had posted that info...and why some one else hadn't posted something along the lines of this confirming the post 'Yes...I think that is what they may be too. I have seen a picture and heard about these very rare anemone's'. Then we thought, hmmm something seems a little fishy about this!!!! :redface:

So it is all good..we soon realized and know now there is no such 'anemone' lol!!!! Thank you for everybody's INPUT and info given to us about our anemone's.. :)

[Money pit]

sgreen, if those are RBTAs ( rose bubble tip anemones ) they do bring a nice price once they color up. Not $600 mind you, the stores sell them around $80 or so for a nice one, board members usually sell them $50-$60 to each other.
If they end up GBTA ( Green ) they're still a nice anem, but the price is about !/2. The last pic of yours is an RBTA.

[sgreen]

I am not sure that they are RBTA's we have a few of them infact they have split over a dozen times and they are all fine. Like we stated earlier we had two of these white ones and they have split a few times, they are well fed and in the same system as many of the other ones that have thrived. Our water levels are all good. I do not believe these are sick or bleached.

[fishoholic]

I am not sure that they are RBTA's we have a few of them infact they have split over a dozen times and they are all fine. Like we stated earlier we had two of these white ones and they have split a few times, they are well fed and in the same system as many of the other ones that have thrived. Our water levels are all good. I do not believe these are sick or bleached.

Honestly they do looked bleached, and IMO your rbta doesn't look very good compaired to healthy ones I've seen. Some bta's stay small and split often but when they are healthy the have good colour still. I asked about what lights you have over your tank, because I find with bta's that makes a big difference. I've never been able to keep BTA's really healthy looking with good colour under T5's, maybe if my tanks weren't as deep as they are it would be different but IME if you want a bta to do really well you need MH lights.

My rbta a few hrs after I 1st brought it home
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii53/Laurie_Morin/90g%20sump/PC190802.jpg

RBTA 2 weeks after being added, a bit stressed/bleached still but starting to fatten and colour up
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii53/Laurie_Morin/90g%20sump/P1010861.jpg

What it looked like April 2nd
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii53/Laurie_Morin/doug/P4020929.jpg

[whatcaneyedo]

My vote is for stressed and bleached. One of the aquariums here that is on public display had a problem with over heating during the summer. They went from 20 or so small GBTA that were always dividing to 20 bleached... to nothing in a matter of months.

Heres an old pic of my GBTA shortly before I sold it.

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh109/whatcaneyedo/pic099-1.jpg

[whatcaneyedo]

Here are some pictures from the public tank. The first one is from 2008. The anemones look a little funny and are reproducing like mad. Shortly after I took this pic they all bleached and died. The second picture is from January 2011. The tank is doing a lot better these days. They replaced all of the GBTA that died with this single one in 2010.


http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh109/whatcaneyedo/pic105.jpg

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh109/whatcaneyedo/IMG_6873.jpg