Anemone question

[nick654377]

Our tank finally reached its stable point. Coral line is starting to grow and we figured to try an anemone again. Our first one was not aquacultured and was not happy.
When we first put it in, it planted its foot in a hole and opened up right away. Picture 1. It stayed close to the rocks and filled out very nicely.
Today picture 2 it’s reaching up to the light. A lot. Does this mean I need to turn my lights up more?

We are using a reef breeders photon v2 at 12 inches above water. The anemone is about 12-15 inches below water.
Our lights are on 4 hours a day with an hour ramp up and ramp down. Max is 30% for those 4 hours. Mostly blues, violets, and uv. 1% whites just for my pleasure. We do not have a par meter but torches and hammers have been doing great. Should I bump up to 35% or add an extra hour?

 

[Bucs20fan]

No matter what you do to your lights the BTA will move where it wants. It will find the place it wants to be consistently on its own. Just leave everything as it is.

 

[nick654377]

No matter what you do to your lights the BTA will move where it wants. It will find the place it wants to be consistently on its own. Just leave everything as it is.

It’s not moving. Just reaching up to the light.

 

[Bucs20fan]

Leave everything alone then. It will reach for light like that because it is happy, if you change your lights it will probably move. More than likely you have another move or two in you future anyway. Dont fret, the nem will do what it does to make it happy.

 

[Jekyl]

I run 12 hours a day with a ramp up, 5 hours peak, ramp down with kessil 360's at 95% intensity. My nems sit right under the light as high as they can get.

 

[Bucs20fan]

I also run 12 hours a day with 6 hour peak. They LOVE light.

 

[ying yang]

4 hours seems very low photo period or maybe it's 6 hours if 1 hours Ramp up /down each side,I always read/researched 8-10 hours photo period buy everyone different I guess and if all corals alive and thriving /growing /entrusting then all is well as believe the answer to alot off our questions we have,the corals tell us with how they react.

I'm no expert on anemones as never owned one but as said above,anemones can move so if not getting enough light or getting to much or flow not enough or to much then they will move,but usually corals that reach for light are wanting more light so aslong as your flow not to strong at higher places and reason it didn't move then maybe try more light for little longer photo period or intensity but as always if do change something do it in increments and slowly and just change one thing at a time then if doesnt go to plan ,always know it was only the one thing you changed etc.

As I say im no anemone expert but it looks healthy enough and open and foot grabbed on,and where its attached looks like it needs to first extend out then upwards so could just look like reaching for light but it's because off where it placed itself under a sort off underhang if get me.

 

[Rtaylor]

Agree longer photo cycle of at least 8-10 hrs. Also, anemones seem to like more white light. I’d recommend significantly increasing the white channel intensity.