Acclimate s. haddoni to new lighting?

[Axolotl]

I have had my haddoni anemone under sub par flourescent lighting. Today i purchased 2x150 metal halide lighting. Will it hurt him if i just put the new lighting over him he is about 18 inches beneath them on the tanks bottom? I read somewhere that he may release his algae and bleach himself if i dont acclimate him?

 

[Toddrtrex]

I will give you the same advice that I give you in your other thread;

Use 3 layers of window screening, supported by egg crate, and remove a layer every 5-7 days.

I have been keeping S. haddonis for the last 15+ years.

 

[Axolotl]

I dont have window screening but i have these four tank screen lids. Remove one every week?

 

[Toddrtrex]

Use 3, no need for 4 of them.

 

[Axolotl]

Awesome thanks! No offense i had just wanted to post in the anemone forum. I think its a brilliant idea. Just had no idea why they would bleach themselves with sufficient lighting. Thought it would be the other way around. Thank you

 

[Axolotl]

Oh! What about my condys? I have two of em.

 

[Toddrtrex]

No worries.

It isn't that they are bleaching themselves because of the sufficient lighting, but from the increase in the amount of light.

Think of it this way -- the first day of summer, you spend 5 hours at the beach, and burn to a crisp, that is what is happening to your anemone now. Now imagine you went to the same beach with sun screen on, you don't get burned. You keep going to the beach and slowly you end up getting tan, and not burnt --- this is what the screening is doing for your anemone.

(( hope that makes sense, still on pain killers from my recent back surgery )).

 

[Toddrtrex]

Oh! What about my condys? I have two of em.

I personally would sell them -- they aren't a natural host for any clowns, and have a nasty sting. Plus, I have never had good luck mixing S. haddoni with any other anemone species -- never seen to fully settle in.

 

[elegance coral]

I would also shorten those pickup tubes so that the anemone doesn't get into one of them. Especially while the anemone is settling in.