What’s up with my bubble tip anemone?

[vetteguy53081]

It has magnifying lenses over ever LED, does that not help with the lower wattage light rating? The light originally grew coral on my brothers tank and did it well so I figured it’d be adequate?

Are you suggesting I turn it up and watch for progress?

Those are actually there to set angles and has appearance of magnifiers. You can turn up slightly and see if it responds. Your PAR from these lights are likely low

 

[TaylorLee]

Those are actually there to set angles and has appearance of magnifiers. You can turn up slightly and see if it responds. Your PAR from these lights are likely low

I’ll see about getting a par meter and do some investigating. What par do they like? Around 75-125 is what I was thinking

 

[TaylorLee]

Oh wow I’m way off. Googled an article said 220 minimum!

 

[vetteguy53081]

I’ll see about getting a par meter and do some investigating. What par do they like? Around 75-125 is what I was thinking

175-200

 

[TaylorLee]

Correction on my light wattage: it’s a 165W LED

Here’s some updates on the bubble tip. It’s definitely eating every time I feed it so it’s alive. Just doesn’t extend its arms anymore than what’s shown. Probably trying to adjust. Improvements are being made, it’s trying to climb on the black background next to the overflow. Might just be in shock from me moving it. I won’t touch it if it decides to roam

 

[vetteguy53081]

Correction on my light wattage: it’s a 165W LED

Here’s some updates on the bubble tip. It’s definitely eating every time I feed it so it’s alive. Just doesn’t extend its arms anymore than what’s shown. Probably trying to adjust. Improvements are being made, it’s trying to climb on the black background next to the overflow. Might just be in shock from me moving it. I won’t touch it if it decides to roam

looks better. Reduce white intensity and increase blue a little and assure flow is subtle to moderate where its at

 

[TaylorLee]

It looks a little bleached to me maybe wasn’t super healthy to begin with. Btas don’t need a ton of light and I’ve kept them for years under black box leds. I would just leave it alone. Also I am of the opinion and others may disagree that clowns rarely if ever are the cause of an anemones death.

Thanks for pointing that out! I didn’t notice it being so pale until I compared today’s pictures to my original pics. I feel like it’s getting some color back wouldnt you agree? It’s hanging in there! Thanks for your input I really appreciate the advice

 

[TaylorLee]

Shot of it eating I’ll be leaving the blues alone for a looong time if I ever change it.

 

[TaylorLee]

A little bit of extensions on it. Definitely haven’t seen it do that since I moved it. I think it’s going to make it

 

[TaylorLee]

A little bit of extensions on it. Definitely haven’t seen it do that since I moved it. I think it’s going to make it

 

[K-PAX]

125 PAR is too low for BTA，it stariving but looks better now after u increased the blue intensity

 

[TaylorLee]

Looking better everyday. Still don’t want to climb on anything. Floating around is mysis I broadcast fed