Anemone stretching to the surface

[RivieraBayReef]

I have a large rose bubble tip that has always stretched as high as he could get. I have him under kessil A360NEs (previously had a deeper rank). My concern is that he gets caught in the overflow. Does he look healthy? Do I need more light on him?

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[vhuang168]

What % are you running the 360 at?


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[NYCBOB]

that is one light hungry anemone.

 

[neiltus]

I am curious what your light cycle is and how high off the surface the lights are.

 

[pfan151]

Never saw anything like that before. Maybe try redirecting the flow.

 

[davocean]

Light hungry would also be my guess

 

[RivieraBayReef]

Thanks for the responses. I'm running the Kessils for 9 hours. They quickly ramp up to 90% intensity and 50 color and stay there for about 5 hours before slowly running down to 50% intensity 35% color. I'll take it up to 100% and try it. Lights sit about 8 inches off the surface


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[vhuang168]

Is there a light shining directly at it? Or off to the side?


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[RivieraBayReef]

Vhuang168, that's a good question, I think he's trained himself to get so high from the old deeper tank, that now he's extending high enough to miss the strongest light. I have some extra LED lighting that I may tilt towards his position


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[RivieraBayReef]

Or I may just raise all lighting up to 15 or so inches off the surface.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[neiltus]

Seems like a lot of light, but if the water is yellow...

I have a couple bta, under a360we, but only go up to about 53% int. They stretch from time to time, but not like that.

 

[OurCoralReef]

Did you try feeding it food?

 

[RivieraBayReef]

He gets a lot of food when I feed all the fish. He's about the size of a dinner plate at times so he catches a lot.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[OurCoralReef]

My anemones love light as long as they aclimate to it they like it strong can you raise the light on the anemone alone

 

[domb54]

My guess would be wants more water flow

 

[RivieraBayReef]

I just wanted to follow up on this thread. My anemone looks a lot better. I ended replacing all the A360NEs with A360WEs. I think i just wasn't getting good coverage at the height of the tank where he was sitting. Under the WE lighting, he's not stretching up much at all. This is only day 3, but he's acting completely different.....now I have 3x A360NEs to get rid of!