BTA year old and still no bubble tips!?!?

OK, I have a bulb tip anemone and it has survived for over a year in my tank so obviously I am doing something right. I feed it a little piece of silverside bout once a month and my ocellarus clown (don't know if spelling correct) takes care of the rest along with lighting.

When I purchased this guy he was apx. 2" in diameter and had some real fat green bubble tips. After acclimation, the bubbles lasted about a month but seemed to be getting less and less as time went on.

So for the past lets say 8 months, it has grown to about 6" diameter but the bubbles have never come back (only can see little bubbles sometimes when excreting waste) and the color has gone from a real attractive green to a redish brown (again green seems to come back when excreting but not like when I first got it).

Now my question is does anyone have any clue if the bubbles/color will ever come back or am I stuck with a not so attractive amenome?? Now I know this has been covered before but I am wondering if anyone has any new information on this. Thanks

 

I would like to see the responses to this, I have a BTA that gets bubbly but the tips don't look like the standard bubble tip pics... Actually when I bought it 6 mos ago it didn't have the "standard" tips either. (Mine has stayed a nice color though.) I've been wondering if mine was some other type of BTA that doesn't look the same as the standard?

 

some bta lose there bulb tips in captivity it isn't known why(atleast when i looked into it) people presume we are missing something in our water

edit: nothing is wrong with your anemone, it just happens

 

i noticed that when i began to feed my BTA more it got the tips back...they do come and go but normally after it hasnt filled its mouth in awhile.
i feed mine once a week....sometimes twice

 

I tried that a few months ago thinking I was starving the little guy BUT every time I fed it like that it would basically spit the food out 1/2 digested and look worse than before I fed it so I stopped and let the clown supplement it most of the time now.

 

the reason i beleive it happens is that when their tips are inflated they are filtering the water for the nutrients they need, either A: we dont have it, or B: they dont need it due to the feedings and lighting in the tanks

 

So is this more common than I'm aware of?? I thought I was in the minority??

 

its pretty comon some completely lose there tips, some have there tips come and go. i think having the tips all the time is the minority

 

Thats good to know! Thanks!