Anemone Help

[Amymorgan361]

I posted not too long ago about anemone that I have. They lady I got him from said he was a white anemone... but when I got him he was a dark green/blue. Now he's white. I've had him for about 3 weeks feeding him scallops and shrimp. So does he look healthy? Is he suppose to be white or greenish? The first picture(right side) is day 1 that I had him. The second picture(left side) was a picture I took today.

 

[Cell]

Isnt the left pic when you first got him? Aside from the bleaching in the right pic it looks healthy. What size tank/lighting?

 

[Fishurama]

I agree with the poster above, it looks fine other then being bleached. How often are you feeding it? If you over feed it they can expel zooxanthellae(ive done it to mine) which could be causing it to lose color. Could be lighting(not enough or to much) but it would normally move if that was the case.

What are your water parameters and what type of lights are you using at what intensity?

 

[Amymorgan361]

Isnt the left pic when you first got him? Aside from the bleaching in the right pic it looks healthy. What size tank/lighting?

Yes the left is when I first got him right is now lol.

 

[Amymorgan361]

I agree with the poster above, it looks fine other then being bleached. How often are you feeding it? If you over feed it they can expel zooxanthellae(ive done it to mine) which could be causing it to lose color. Could be lighting(not enough or to much) but it would normally move if that was the case.

What are your water parameters and what type of lights are you using at what intensity?

I need to go get a water testing kit. I took a sample of my water to get tested and they said everything was good and where it needed to be. I use the Fluval 59watt it's in my 75 gallon tank. I have it on the bright light all day and blue light at night

 

[Cell]

You are probably stretching the limits of that light on your size tank. I'd run blues at 100% and whites maybe around 75% or more for at least 8 hours a day with another hour or two ramp up and down time.

 

[Fishurama]

I need to go get a water testing kit. I took a sample of my water to get tested and they said everything was good and where it needed to be. I use the Fluval 59watt it's in my 75 gallon tank. I have it on the bright light all day and blue light at night

Please get a test kit and then give us your numbers, sometimes LFS can be wrong. How many hours do you have the lights on? if you leave them on 24/7 it could be causing the bleaching. They need some darkness. I generally run my whites for 10ish to 12ish hours(im including ramp up/down time here which is about an hour for morning/night) and blue for 2 hours(one hour in the morning and one at night) for a total of 12-14 hours of light.

 

[Cell]

I didn't notice that. Definitely don't run the blue light all night long if that's what you are doing.

 

[El_Guapo13]

You are probably stretching the limits of that light on your size tank. I'd run blues at 100% and whites maybe around 75% or more for at least 8 hours a day with another hour or two ramp up and down time.

Agreed. I personally only run whites on my Kessil lights when cleaning or doing any other type of maintenance (such as my usual murderous Aiptasia killing sprees) just so I can see better. Other than that, I keep my blues on during the day. Ramp up from 7 am to 11 to 60% intensity with blue setting of 25, and down back to zero blue and zero intensity between 6pm and 10:15pm.

Also keep in mind, white lights produce more algae than blue lights do. Same with the red spectrum of lights. And if you want to see your corals "pop" and fluoresce, then you will want more blue lights as that is the spectrum that shows the fluorescence on corals and helps encourage coral growth.

 

[Cell]

Normally I wouldn't run whites that high, but I feel like at that wattage vs depth every bit of light helps.

 

[Amymorgan361]

You are probably stretching the limits of that light on your size tank. I'd run blues at 100% and whites maybe around 75% or more for at least 8 hours a day with another hour or two ramp up and down time.

Thank you

 

[Cell]

If you are concerned about algae growth, you can start whites at a lower intensity and slowly ramp it up over a couple weeks while evaluating algae growth and nem health. But I'm guessing you'll need just about every watt squeezed out of that light it can muster.

 

[Amymorgan361]

I'm still "new" to the salt tanks. I started mine up in January. So idk what algae to grow and how to grow it. I do have coralline algae that grew naturally in my tank at about 5 months.

 

[Cell]

Unless its macro algae or coralline, or controlled growth in a refugium or turf scrubber, you dont want it. When we speak of algae growth and white lighting, we are typically talking nuisance/undesirable algae.

 

[Billdogg]

IMHO, that light is woefully underpowered for anything other than a fish only system. I'm quite certain that is the reason your anemone has bleached so badly. Until you can upgrade your lighting to something that will better serve you, I'd crank it up just as far as it can go, and leave it on for 10-12 hours/day. I would also suggest feeding it at most once/week.

jm.02

 

[El_Guapo13]

IMHO, that light is woefully underpowered for anything other than a fish only system. I'm quite certain that is the reason your anemone has bleached so badly. Until you can upgrade your lighting to something that will better serve you, I'd crank it up just as far as it can go, and leave it on for 10-12 hours/day. I would also suggest feeding it at most once/week.

jm.02

+1 on this. I remember in January of this year, I had an irreparable leak in my biocube so I moved everything to my current 29 gallon. Since it was an emergency, I was in a rush to at least get a temporary light while I waited for a few weeks to be able to afford a Kessil A360X light (it was after Xmas, of course I was broke lol). So I went to my local LFS to buy a relatively affordable light. I looked at the Fluval lights, but they were definitely not powerful enough for corals, and the LFS did not recommend them for anything other than fish only or maybe soft coral tanks. Same thing with Current USA lights.

So until you can get a better light, you probably do want to have it on full blast during the day to get as much power as you can and hopefully keep your anemone and any corals at least somewhat happy.

 

[Cell]

Tbf that light seems to work well for plenty of people with LPS/soft tanks according to Amazon reviews. Still, at that price you can get a 300W black box.

 

[Amymorgan361]

Unless its macro algae or coralline, or controlled growth in a refugium or turf scrubber, you dont want it. When we speak of algae growth and white lighting, we are typically talking nuisance/undesirable algae.

Please get a test kit and then give us your numbers, sometimes LFS can be wrong. How many hours do you have the lights on? if you leave them on 24/7 it could be causing the bleaching. They need some darkness. I generally run my whites for 10ish to 12ish hours(im including ramp up/down time here which is about an hour for morning/night) and blue for 2 hours(one hour in the morning and one at night) for a total of 12-14 hours of light.

I kept my white lights on 100% from 9am to 9pm And then I turn my blue lights on from 9pm to 9am. Should I turn my blue lights down for night time or am I doing too much light in general?

 

[El_Guapo13]

I kept my white lights on 100% from 9am to 9pm And then I turn my blue lights on from 9pm to 9am. Should I turn my blue lights down for night time or am I doing too much light in general?

Don't have any lights on during night. Having any lights on at night encourages nuisance algae growth. And if you can, I would have blues on at 100% during the day alongside the whites to get as much power as you can from the light.

Btw, what do you have in the tank aside from the anemone and the clownfish? Do you have any corals, and what are your long term plans for the tank in terms of what corals you plan on keeping in the tank?

 

[Amymorgan361]

+1 on this. I remember in January of this year, I had an irreparable leak in my biocube so I moved everything to my current 29 gallon. Since it was an emergency, I was in a rush to at least get a temporary light while I waited for a few weeks to be able to afford a Kessil A360X light (it was after Xmas, of course I was broke lol). So I went to my local LFS to buy a relatively affordable light. I looked at the Fluval lights, but they were definitely not powerful enough for corals, and the LFS did not recommend them for anything other than fish only or maybe soft coral tanks. Same thing with Current USA lights.

So until you can get a better light, you probably do want to have it on full blast during the day to get as much power as you can and hopefully keep your anemone and any corals at least somewhat happy.

I have 2 tanks hooked up to 1 sump a 75 gallon and a 55 gallon. What light do you reccomend? I am wanting to us my 55 as a coral tank with my 2 clowns.