Anemone Help

[El_Guapo13]

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.

Depends on your budget. You could go with two Kessil A360X Tuna Blue lights, a ReefBreeder Photon, Two AI Prime lights (can't remember which is the equivalent of the A360 in terms of power), two black boxes. Like I said. It all depends on your budget. I am sure others have good recommendations as well.

And keep in mind, I say "two" lights, but you could always need more. Take my 29 gallon as an example. I COULD use only one Kessil A360X light and it would cover the entire tank. Problem is, my rockwork would cause certain areas to be shaded and thus the corals in thise spots will receive very low to zero light. So instead of having one light centered in the tank, I have two lights at two spots rougly 1/3 of the lefth from either side of the tank. This way, I don't have any shadows or dark spots, and all my corals get adequate lighting to thrive and grow.

 

[Amymorgan361]

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?

When I say white lights I should have added that they are white and blue at 100% idk if that makes a difference. For my 75 gallon I have 3 zoas 2 have about 10 heads and one has about 50, a recordia, kenya tree, a green/purple hammer, and a purple Oregonian. Fish I have a engineer goby, yellow head jawfish, 2 premium snowflake clowns, 5 chromies, a cleaner shrimp, 2 sand sifting starfish, and a lot of snails and crabs. My goal with this tank is to grow my corals and have a blue hippo... eventually I want to get a 200+ gallon...

 

[Amymorgan361]

Depends on your budget. You could go with two Kessil A360X Tuna Blue lights, a ReefBreeder Photon, Two AI Prime lights (can't remember which is the equivalent of the A360 in terms of power), two black boxes. Like I said. It all depends on your budget. I am sure others have good recommendations as well.

And keep in mind, I say "two" lights, but you could always need more. Take my 29 gallon as an example. I COULD use only one Kessil A360X light and it would cover the entire tank. Problem is, my rockwork would cause certain areas to be shaded and thus the corals in thise spots will receive very low to zero light. So instead of having one light centered in the tank, I have two lights at two spots rougly 1/3 of the lefth from either side of the tank. This way, I don't have any shadows or dark spots, and all my corals get adequate lighting to thrive and grow.

My budget is kinda small right now. I'm having a major surgery next Wednesday and I will be out of work for 15 weeks.

 

[Krully]

When I say white lights I should have added that they are white and blue at 100% idk if that makes a difference. For my 75 gallon I have 3 zoas 2 have about 10 heads and one has about 50, a recordia, kenya tree, a green/purple hammer, and a purple Oregonian. Fish I have a engineer goby, yellow head jawfish, 2 premium snowflake clowns, 5 chromies, a cleaner shrimp, 2 sand sifting starfish, and a lot of snails and crabs. My goal with this tank is to grow my corals and have a blue hippo... eventually I want to get a 200+ gallon...

Doesn't matter, you need to stop having lights 24/7 right away, this isn't good for neither the fish or the corals...

 

[Amymorgan361]

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?

I'm wanting my 75 to have all types of corals. My ultimate goal is to have a 200+ tank for bigger fish. But first my 75 I want it to be colorful with a lot of coral. This is what I have now. Plus my anemone.

 

[El_Guapo13]

My budget is kinda small right now. I'm having a major surgery next Wednesday and I will be out of work for 15 weeks.

I'm wanting my 75 to have all types of corals. My ultimate goal is to have a 200+ tank for bigger fish. But first my 75 I want it to be colorful with a lot of coral. This is what I have now. Plus my anemone.

Given everything you mentioned above...
1. Hold off on buying new lights and just keep the lights you currently have running at full power during the day and completely off at night. You can worry about getting new lights later once you are able to. Your own health is much more important than any issue with your aquarium and should take priority. Hope your surgery is a success and you recover to be better than 100%.

2. I would also probably hold off on adding more corals until some time after you have recovered. So just focus on the ones you currently have, as you are able to. Likewise, even once you have fully recovered from the surgery and have money available to splurge on new corals, I would avoid getting any SPS corals, as there aren't really alot that would be considered "low light" SPS. For sure, if you ever decide you want to try to grow an Acropora coral, it would force you to buy a stronger light as they generally require stronger lighting. This once again brings us back to point number 1 above about just waiting until much later to get a better light. Like a few months.

3. For sure, many many moons from now - years even - when you do get that 200 gallon tank, you will definitely need something with more punch than Fluval brand lights like the new Kessil lights (AP900?? Can't remember what it is called lol) or AI lights or something equally powerful and high end. Just food for thought/future planning.

 

[Sleeping Giant]

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

Is it the Bluetooth version?

 

[Cell]

The Fluval might be ok on the 55 with lower light corals, then you could get a black box for the 75.

 

[Sleeping Giant]

The Fluval might be ok on the 55 with lower light corals, then you could get a black box for the 75.

I use a Fluval 3.0 on my 75, no issues at all with my corals, better than the grow lights that are now being pushed off as aquarium lights. And the Fluval is waterproof, can't say that for any black boxes or hockey pucks.

 

[Fishurama]

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?

Run your lights from whenever you want in the morning to around 7pm-8pm then run blue lights only for another hour or two so lights go completely off around 10pm. They do need darkness. Running lights 24/7 is 100 percent causing the bleaching and is why i asked before if this is what was happening. You basically want between 10-12 hours of total light, you can go around to 14 hours(using 2 more hours of blue only) but thats when you start to push it.

 

[AJ192]

I think the light is underpowered I would pry Recommend a stronger one but take my advice with a grain of salt cause I’m fairly new to the hobby myself