Affect of light on bubble tips

[Qasimja]

do you guys think the difference in light affects the bubbles on bubble tips? these two pictures are from my tank the first one was taken in june under 250W metal halides the second one is taken under led lights yesterday specifically the ocean revive t247bs i just upgraded too or downgraded however you see it lol the appearance looks much fuller and more bubbly under the led lights

 

[James M]

No one really knows why they bubble and don’t bubble.

 

[NinjaTiLL]

My brother recently gifted me a BTA and he uses a MH/T5 combo light. When I first moved the BTA to my tank under Kessil A360WE LEDs, it was bubbling the tips for a few days but has since stopped. I think the lighting change was quite a shock or perhaps my tank is too young. It went through some bouts of moving around the tank and even detached and free-floated one night. I think it calmed down now. I started to feed it some shrimp slivers once or twice a week and it responded to that very favorably. So now it found a relatively sheltered spot that has full sun exposure for a few hours in the afternoon (tank is under a small window). When the sun hits it, I thought it would bubble up more but it only bubbles just a few tentacles. It looks happy in that sun though; it puffs up and expands like it is trying to absorb as much light as it can get.

 

[BlennyTime]

Those things are just weird, they would bubble and not bubble whenever they felt like it in my tank. Never could find a pattern. Even 2 from the same stock next to each other would be different.

I don’t think research knows why they do it.

 

[jtf74]

Doesn't matter. I have ten nems all from the same splits. Some bubble, some don't all in the same system.

 

[Sdot]

do you guys think the difference in light affects the bubbles on bubble tips? these two pictures are from my tank the first one was taken in june under 250W metal halides the second one is taken under led lights yesterday specifically the ocean revive t247bs i just upgraded too or downgraded however you see it lol the appearance looks much fuller and more bubbly under the led lights

I think you are on to something.... I noticed in the am when my lights are lower intensity, I noticed more bubbles...as the lights peak..(More intense) they don't bubble as much

Lights ramping up (Lower intensity)

During Peak

 

[snowhite]

I've got a Ritteri up high in my Anemone 90g tank along with about 10 bubbletips, and 8 rockflowers lower in the tank at varying levels of their choosing. I've been feeding him about 500par of light and he doesn't move away from it.

However, I've noticed that all my bubbletips in the tank are slowly getting darker and more muted.
I received 4 more orange'ish morph bubbletips from someone and over the 3 weeks they've been in this tank they've also gotten darker and more muted.
So I've noticably cutback on the light in the tank to see the effect color wise on the bubbletips, but also watching the Ritteri. I might have to make a choice between the two, but I definitely have notice color effect of light on bubbletips, which is the opposite of color effect on SPS. Lower light on SPS gives brownout and higher gives brighter colors.

 

[vorphex1010]

I think you are on to something.... I noticed in the am when my lights are lower intensity, I noticed more bubbles...as the lights peak..(More intense) they don't bubble as much

Lights ramping up (Lower intensity)

During Peak

Based on observation, I would like to hypothesize that Bubble tip anemones bubble up more during low light to increase surface area for zooxanthellae and zoochlorellae to photosynthesize I will further study this with my own experiment (Do not try this ; at this moment it is only a hypothesis)