green bubble tip anemone question

polskiaudi

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so i picked up my first anemone the other week. a small green bubble tip. i placed it onto a rock he stayed their for a day or 2 and now moved about 5-6inches into the rock scape so there is really no light getting to it. should i be worried? i dont really want to take all the live rock out to get to it.
 
Bta does what he wants no f****** around ahahaa. all kidding aside though they like to move to where they feel comfortable should seek light if it needs it. But dont mess with it its just trying to get comfortable
 
Mine went behind the rocks & never came out. I assumed it died back there. Months later I see a tiny nem on a rock. I couldn't believe it was alive! It's nice, big & happy now.
 
well the nem decided to come out of the cave and is now close to my sunny D palys. if it gets too close will it sting them and kill them?
should i move them somewhere else incase the nem decides to move more?
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the colors look washed out in the pictures because the white leds were at 100% and the blues were turned all the way down to get the pic
 
Nope, nems won't bother palys. This is the chance you take with keeping a nem. You can't keep moving it where you want it to live--you'll wind up killing it.

What kidd of lighting do you have/ Did you purchase it all bleached out like that?
 
I was talking about moving the palys. I picked it up like that. It has an electric neon green look to it but when taking pics of it under the LEDs it looks whitish. I have an led fixture with 24 3watt LEDs 8 white, 1 red, 15 royal blue. The whites and blues are on seperate dimmable drivers and I have it dimmed down to a bluish 20K look.
 
The "electric" green look is from the lack of zooxanthellae in the cells, causing to appear "bleached".
You certainly can keep moving your coral out of his path but you may need to buy lots more glue. ;)
Like I said, BTAs don't sting palys.
 
They don't sting palys but will sure as heck irritate them to the point of melting if the nem bothers them enough. One of my nems moved into a frag full of purple hornets, the hornets started going downhill, I moved the frag to a different area of the tank, and they happily recovered.
 
The "electric" green look is from the lack of zooxanthellae in the cells, causing to appear "bleached".
You certainly can keep moving your coral out of his path but you may need to buy lots more glue. ;)
Like I said, BTAs don't sting palys.

Well I have a lot of glue bought 12 packs when Menards had the buy one get one free sale haha. So will the nem ever go back to a normal green color since its bleached out?
 
Depends on your lighting (I know nothing about LEDs) & your feeding it. Be sure to feed small pieces of meaty foods about every 3 days & soak all it's food in Selcon & Vita-Chem.
 
mine i never feed but i have strong leds on my tank and they get all the light they need i would move my zoas for sure though
 
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