anemone healthy?

[p30sl]

I have an anemone that was about 12-14'' across. It got a hold of some knori I feed my tangs. It has now been only inflating to 8-9'' and looks bleached white and the tips went from purple to red. It looks like a totally different animal. I bought new bulbs, also (same spectrum) around a week prior to this. Is this normal with new lights or an anemone eating algae?

[Beng]

From what I've seen with my own anemone, I'm pretty sure it's the new lighting rather then the Nori. I have an anemone that went from dark red to whitish pink because when it was at the LFS, it was under VHO, now that it's under direct MH it bleached.

Anemones can puke out anything that they don't like, I once had a large turbo snail that fell inside an anemone while it had it's mouth wide open, I thought the anemone was going to die for sure, after a hour, the anemone deflated and puke out the snail without any problems.

Beng

[jeffie]

Definitely sounds bleached- more then likely from the new lights... Keep your water quality up to par and hopefully it should recover.

[smeese]

Chance are it will move to a more comfortable spot.

[p30sl]

As it turns out this guy was just getting ready to split in two. I have never seen this happen before (just heard about it). The anemone split about a 1/4 way to the middle last night.

[MRI_GUY]

You must be a good custodian to keep your beasties so happy they can just split. Congrats.

[Sea monkey]

they often split when they are not happy : )

I think its a way of insuring its survival .

[Scott 3560]

is that why? makes sense, I got one a RBTA from the LPS and in a month it split and now almost 2 years later it has never split again