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Originally Posted by DSB
I don't quite get this. When I got mine it was all white, now it look's like the other picture, I thought something was wrong. What color is right?
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This isn't a technical explaination, so it's not exactly right...but it's to help you get the idea:
Anemone's, and other
photosynthetic corals allow algae to live inside them. These algae get a safe place to live (as opposed to just going where the current takes them), and in exchange, they give the host (in this case, the anemone) some of it's byproducts (i.e. food).
These specific kind of algae are called Zooxanthella. When a critter is stressed, sometimes, it doesn't know what's making it stressed, so it expels it's Zooxanthella as a last ditch effort, hoping to just survive on captured food alone, until it gets better, and gets more zooxanthella. This is called Bleaching.
The first picture is what it looked like when I bought it...after the stress of being captured, travelling from god knows where, to my fish tank.
The 2nd picture is after it's captured a good share of zooxanthella. Which means, it's no longer completely dependent upon me feeding it. It can now get most of its nutrition from the photosynthetic algae living in it's body.
so to answer your question...white is bad. Brown is good.
with almost ALL marine critters...white is bad.
But the LFS's stores sell them that way, cause to the uninformed (myself included), we think they look healthy, and pretty. But the truth is, they are VERY ill at that point.
