anemone bleaching

[RH~reef]

Greetings, for a few days here my anemone has been losing its color, could you help me identify my anemone and what has it
here is the before and after...
I have a 10 gls nano without skimmer, only backpack filter, everything else is excellent

 

[laverda]

What are your parameters and what light and schedule are you running it? How old is the tank? It doesn’t look to bad, just a little pail in the last photo.

 

[RH~reef]

Yes, I have seen it affected for a few days here I stayed for a good few hours without light and without movement for the anemone, some 5-6 hours for a day.
The light I have at the moment is an Asta 20 marine edition (thinking of changing it) here is the link.
My parameters still do not measure frequently, I only change the water with tropic marine salt, I have a nano of 10 gls

 

[laverda]

What are your parameters? what is your light schedule? Are you running it at full intensity? How old is the tank? How long have you had the anemone?
Being with out light for a day should not be a big deal. I know nothing about that light. I suspect it is not getting enough light. Anemones love high light.
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[RH~reef]

I give it about 9 hours, from 12pm to 9pm
the nano is about 3 months old and the anemone is one month and ten days old.
the light has all the channels at 100% minus the white led channel that I have at 30%
It was like two days and one night that I ran out of energy, a total of 13-15 hours interspersed without light. I also suspect low light
I do not measure parameters, I will have to, I only change the water of about 5 gls every 7 or 15 days

 

[laverda]

I would increase the white lite as I suspect that light does not put out much. Pretty hard to give an anemone too much light. How many watts is the light? Your rock looks like it was live rock not dry rock that you started with. Even with live rock anemones do much better in a well established tank.

 

[RH~reef]

Yes, the rock is alive, they passed it to me from a tank for more or less an established year.
The light has 16 led pieces and each one has 3w, that is, about 48w in total.
The only problem I have is the anemone, but it opens me perfectly, even my other frags are excellent, I have zoas, paly, a frag duncan and star polyp
I plan to make a zoo garden and the occasional euphyllia.

 

[laverda]

Anemones thrive in tanks with elevated nitrate, as it is a food source for them. If your nitrates are less then 10 that may be part of the issue. Like I said I would increase the whit light.

 

[RH~reef]

and how could it get nitrates? or with weekly water change would solve that?

 

[laverda]

There are threads on dosing nitrates in the chemistry forum. Most established tanks have them naturally. Many people struggle to reduce them. They are a product of the nitrogen cycle. Ammonia brakes down to nitrite which then brakes down to nitrate.