anemone and bubbles

[MightyMike1]

I have two possible problems. For starters I seem to have a lot of air bubbles that sit in various places of my tank. Is this a problem?? Secondly, I purchased a candy anemone around two weeks ago and it seems to have turned from a white to a light brown. The creature seems to be ok healthly looking during the hours the light is on, although, at night it shrinks really small and the tenticals deflate. Is this normal? I heard something of bleaching the animals, what is that about? I currently have another anemone in the tank that is doing just fine. My water para. seem to be fine as well.

 

[Len]

Hi Mike. Air bubbles aren't a problem unless they're building up around corals. Increasing water flow and randomizing the patterns will help eliminate this build up.

Bleaching is when photosynthetic corals and inverts expel the symbiotic zooxanthallae from their cells. Zooxanthalle are brown in color and are responsible for photosynthesis. Beached corals just means the zooxanthallae aren't gone. The fact that your anemone is turning brown is actually a good sign. It means the anemone is regaining it's zooxanthalle population

 

[MightyMike1]

Thank you!

 

[Len]

Oops! This line is all garbled up:
"Beached corals just means the zooxanthallae aren't gone"

It should read:
"Bleached corals just means the zooxanthallae are gone"

Sorry