Lighting for bubble top anemone

[Rechelle Fleck]

I have a pair of ocellaris clowns in my tank and I am looking at getting a bubble tip anemone for them. The tank is 9+ months old (live rock is nice and healthy with lots of purple) and the water paramters are great . However, I am only running compact halogens with one 10,000k daylight and one actinic light plus an LED lunar. I have one person telling me that anemones need LEDs and another that this lighting is fine. I am officially confused.

 

[dantimdad]

What are compact halogens?

Anemones should be lit with as much light as SPS in my opinion.

You can get by with a little less, but you have to manually feed them a healthy diet and even then, they don't thrive.

 

[GoVols]

What are compact halogens?

Anemones should be lit with as much light as SPS in my opinion.

You can get by with a little less, but you have to manually feed them a healthy diet and even then, they don't thrive.

Bta's don't need as much light as some SPS.

Compact's will not cut it by their self, but a T5 or a low watt MH fixture will sure do the job for a Bubble tip anemone.

I have not spot fed my bta's in years and they were just fine without the need to spot feed.

Carpet and Ritteri nems. are an entire different matter than an BTA.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Soft lighting high on blues with moderate intensity will suffice. Water flow should also be moderate as high flow will keep them moving all over tank looking for a quiet spot

 

[kayla s]

I actually had the opposite happen to me! I have a 20L with anemones and a 60w blue and white LED light. It read 160 PAR at the bottom, and it was actually too MUCH light which caused the anemone not to grow and be quite unstable. It’s a medium that I’ve found tricky to find!!

 

[vetteguy53081]

I actually had the opposite happen to me! I have a 20L with anemones and a 60w blue and white LED light. It read 160 PAR at the bottom, and it was actually too MUCH light which caused the anemone not to grow and be quite unstable. It’s a medium that I’ve found tricky to find!!

You are correct. They are comprised of cells and membranes and utilize light for metabolism. as we are miserable in the hot, sun (well some of us), they respond the same way with lighting. Don't forget an occasional feeding for them also

 

[ReeferSpot]

I know this is a somewhat old thread but I discovered something new today. In August I made an impulse buy and purchased 2 bta's.
When I put them in the tank on a rock where I wanted them they were both bubbled up but when I woke up the next morning one had moved under a cliff and the other into a small shallow cave.

They were no longer bubbled up and stay that way for the next 2 months. One of them only had a few tentacles extended but the tentacles along its circumference were very short. The other nem is hanging upside down with deflated tentacles. They are both fed by me and the clownfish they both host.

Long story short I am having an algae problem so I did a 3 day blackout and discovered my nems have bubbled up after the 3 days of darkness.

Could this mean that they are getting too much light? I have lower my light intensity considerably and will hopefully see some results in the morning.

 

[Rscott]

you have a typo its bubble TIP not top

 

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I have a pair of ocellaris clowns in my tank and I am looking at getting a bubble tip anemone for them. The tank is 9+ months old (live rock is nice and healthy with lots of purple) and the water paramters are great . However, I am only running compact halogens with one 10,000k daylight and one actinic light plus an LED lunar. I have one person telling me that anemones need LEDs and another that this lighting is fine. I am officially confused.

steve’s all the way.

 

[Rechelle Fleck]

you have a typo its bubble TIP not top

yes I know. I couldn't correct the title to Tip, so now I have invented a new type of nem called the Bubble Top - LOL