Glow stick BTA

[Paleozoic_reefer]

GOOD MORNING FELLOW REEFER!

I have this glow stick BTA that I purchased about 2months ago that is moving about the under hang of this rock. It peeks out about 1/2 of itself during the days sometimes but never fully. Do I have it too high? I have kessils a160we on my 75 Red Sea Reefer and intensity maxs to 60 during the day for 3 hrs. Where do others keep their glow stick BTAs?? Any thoughts or comments on these types of nems would be appreciated!!

 

[laverda]

If your anemone is getting to much light it will move on it own. That said I truly doubt it is getting to much light. They love intense light.

 

[Paleozoic_reefer]

If your anemone is getting to much light it will move on it own. That said I truly doubt it is getting to much light. They love intense light.

So should I not be worried? The mouth is closed and it’s hanging on pretty tight. I just don’t see if coming out for light very often..

 

[laverda]

It is hard to say. Anemones do weird things. I have a bunch of cloans of ine anemone. The few that have gone down near the sand bed are definatly lighter in color, but you photo looks bleached to me. My tank is 30" tall.
It has been a few days not has had thing changed.

 

[Triggreef]

Definitely not too much light. Maybe not enough. I've taken par readings on those a160 (today actually) and your probably only at about 30 right at the tip of that arrow.

 

[Paleozoic_reefer]

@Triggreef what intensity are you maxing out at on your a160?

 

[Triggreef]

Max intensity, all the way to the blue. If you go a little more to the white the par goes higher (not by much maybe 10 at most) but aside from not looking as good (imo) the white tends to nuke corals. Blue is much more forgiving ime.

Now they say par meter errs up to 20 percent on blue led so I'd call the par reading about the same really in the end if you adjust for that 20 percent.

 

[Triggreef]

I just read again that you maxed at 60 percent. So you may be even lower than that. At similar distance in 100 percent (all blue) I was getting about 42.

 

[Dancingmad]

I keep my BTAs under a160s - they bleach out at max intensity. They're happy as all get out at 80% peak. I don't go too deep into the white spectrum in the schedule, because I mean...that kessil blue is awesome. That being said I guess its all relative to their position in your reef. Mine hang out at the tippy top of my reef. When I transitioned them from MH+T5 I started at 40% max intensity and slowly got it up to 100% over about 2 months, then reeled it back when I started to notice some bleaching. Just my XP!