Lighting for bubble top anemones

[thisguy1]

Hi I was wondering if this is good lighting schedule for a rose bubble tip anemone? I’m looking to do an anemone only tank

 

[Ron Reefman]

I'm afraid your graph is a bit unclear to me. Even a couple of the color/letter heading are unclear. RY? DR? ML?
What is the PAR of that light?
What fixture are you using?

I have a 40g breeder aio tank with about 15 BTA's (rainbow & black widows), RFA's and a large zoa colony. No fish, no sps or lps corals. I have a Reefbreeder light fixture. My RFAs are pretty stable and have not spawned recently (at least not that I have noticed). My black widow BTAs split regularly. I started with one about 3 years ago and have sold 5 and have 14 or 15 in the tank. The rainbow BTA is a recent addition to the tank and it has split once already.

About 2 months ago I had to make a change to my tank. My 40g tank was a mix of corals, anemones and inverts (no fish). But the BTA were splitting so often that they were starting to interfere with the sps and lps corals. So I moved the sps and lps corals to a new 20g aio tank. Now the 40g tank is divided in half by a group of big rocks covered with zoas (mostly local zoas from the Florida Keys). The BTAs get the right hand side and the RFAs get the left hand side.

I only feed them once every 3 or 4 weeks. And even then, just small bits of silversides fish or chopped up local shrimp I collect at a local estuary.

If you want, I can take some PAR reading from the tank and get a photo to show you what it looks like currently. I'd be happy to share info and ideas.

We just got back from 2 days of snorkeling, collecting and photographing in the Keys. We live about 5 hours away and go there a couple of times a year so I can collect some new CUC. Here are a few pics from Tuesday's snorkel.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

Knowing the intensity doesn't help us if we don't know how strong the light is or what size the tank is. IS that an AI Prime light? What size is the tank?

 

[thisguy1]

Knowing the intensity doesn't help us if we don't know how strong the light is or what size the tank is. IS that an AI Prime light? What size is the tank?

I'm afraid your graph is a bit unclear to me. Even a couple of the color/letter heading are unclear. RY? DR? ML?
What is the PAR of that light?
What fixture are you using?

I have a 40g breeder aio tank with about 15 BTA's (rainbow & black widows), RFA's and a large zoa colony. No fish, no sps or lps corals. I have a Reefbreeder light fixture. My RFAs are pretty stable and have not spawned recently (at least not that I have noticed). My black widow BTAs split regularly. I started with one about 3 years ago and have sold 5 and have 14 or 15 in the tank. The rainbow BTA is a recent addition to the tank and it has split once already.

About 2 months ago I had to make a change to my tank. My 40g tank was a mix of corals, anemones and inverts (no fish). But the BTA were splitting so often that they were starting to interfere with the sps and lps corals. So I moved the sps and lps corals to a new 20g aio tank. Now the 40g tank is divided in half by a group of big rocks covered with zoas (mostly local zoas from the Florida Keys). The BTAs get the right hand side and the RFAs get the left hand side.

I only feed them once every 3 or 4 weeks. And even then, just small bits of silversides fish or chopped up local shrimp I collect at a local estuary.

If you want, I can take some PAR reading from the tank and get a photo to show you what it looks like currently. I'd be happy to share info and ideas.

We just got back from 2 days of snorkeling, collecting and photographing in the Keys. We live about 5 hours away and go there a couple of times a year so I can collect some new CUC. Here are a few pics from Tuesday's snorkel.

Sorry I’m using the AI Prime 16HD for my lighting on my 15 gallon air tank and not sure of the par measurements. The letters are for the colors like “RY” is royal blue, “DR” red, and “ML” is moonlight. I have a few torches and hammers in the tank until I setup my 2nd tank which is a 20 gallon aio just for corals

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

I run AI Prime on my 15 gallon as well, your setting is close to mine. Your blues look good, I would turn down the green and red to about 10%-15%, corals don't need much green and red and these 2 colors can promote algae growth, your whites are good. I get great growth under this setting 12 hours per day. Good luck

 

[thisguy1]

I run AI Prime on my 15 gallon as well, your setting is close to mine. Your blues look good, I would turn down the green and red to about 10%-15%, corals don't need much green and red and these 2 colors can promote algae growth, your whites are good. I get great growth under this setting 12 hours per day. Good luck

Yea I’m battling hair algae now so I’ll definitely turn those down. I bought a few rainbow bubble tips for this tank so hoping my lighting is good

 

[X-37B]

Turn up the 16. I ran 2 over an 18" cube.
First 4 at 100% the rest 50%.

Currently run 2 16hds over my 13g. All channels at 80%.
There is a small quarter size bubbletip in this system.

50

 

[Ron Reefman]

It looks like you are heading in the right direction. If you ever have BTA questions, I'm here to offer help.