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ok my mum has a nice green tip bubble anenomne and her clowns have taken to her bubble coral.

my lighing is

2x 36watt compact 50/50 t5's with reflector
2x 36watt t8's one actinic and one triton

Thanks

Bubble tips need a LOT of light. You have a fair amount, but I think you need a bit more.



Dan

What size tank is that lighting on? As that may just be good for some anemones. T5s put out more light, and you have 144 watts there. So how many gallons is your tank?

Last edited by acidrain at 03-Jan-2005 16:58

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55 but with displacement i think about 40-45 gal

That should be enough for a long tentical, and even a seba should be OK in that light.



Dan

Under that lighting, you should have no trouble keeping a BTA, Sebae, or LTA. All of these should do well.

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i already have kept the malu before in one of my old reefs thank s you 2!

You think buggle tip would be OK, I thought they needed more light, not as much as a carpet, but more then a sebae. Thanks for the update.



Dan

Thats very risky, in my opinion you could keep the critter alive for a couple months but it would slowly start to shrink. When anenome's dont get enough light they get smaller, and their tenticles eventually will not expand.

I have had a couple BTAs split under less lighting than that. And actually I have one RBTA, that is going on 2 years old now, that is in a 30 tall, under just 35 watts of PC. Of course it is like 10 inches from the surface, on a stack of LR. BTAs are probably the easier to keep, and do great under mid level lighting, as compared to reef lighting. They prefer a hard anchor and not the sand, and they prefer to hide their foot, out of the light. So, they very well may attach to the underside of a cave and kinda curve up and out of it during the day. I have seen this happen on multiple occassions, with many different ones.

I also kept an LTA, under much less lighting than that many years ago. It was under only 80 watts of NO fluorescent lights, and not only did great, but grew from the size of a coffee cup, to the size of a platter, in just over a year.

144 watts of PC and T5s, is plenty for these anemones.

I know several people right now, doing SPS under 180 watts of T5s (5X36 watt T5s), and they are growing quite well.



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