Bleaching Green Carpet Anemone

[John Quattro]

I bought a Green Carpet Anemone right before Halloween. It settled in the crevice of large rock. There was another rock over top of it, Kind of like a shelf. This blocked some of the light, but the anemone seemed ok. It was eating well, and spread out and opened most of the time. Just before Christmas, I noticed about half of the carpet was white (bleached). The other half looked ok. I have since moved the shelf to allow full light to get to the carpet. It has started to color up a bit, but not much. I went down to look at the tank this evening and caught one of my Emerald Crabs picking at the Anemone. Almost like it was trying to pull pieces of it off to eat. My tank is a 75 gallon that has been setup for 13 months. Water params are all good and feeding is about twice a week. My clowns have never had anything to do with the anemone. The cleaner shrinp crawls all over the Anemone without worry of being eaten. My question is how do I get it off of the rock without damaging it so I can relocate it to another tank, or would it be better just to move the whole rock, or should I just leave it where it is and let nature run it's course. Thanks for the help.

John.

 

[elegance coral]

IMHO, you don't have enough light for this anemone.

 

[John Quattro]

Sorry. I haven't update my sig in awhile. I have this light AquaticLife two 65W 460nm Actinic Lamps, two 65W 10K Lamps and four one watt Lunar LEDs

Don't know if that makes a difference or not

 

[John Quattro]

Includes two 65W 460nm Actinic Lamps, two 65W 10K Lamps and four one watt Lunar LEDs

 

[dz6t]

no enough, IMO.
you need a 250w halide

 

[John Quattro]

Would this light be ok?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/AQUARIUM-ME...t=LH_DefaultDomain_0&var=&hash=item6fc48fc6b3

48'' 2x 250 Metal Halide with 4x 54 watt T5 HO Bulbs w/ 14 watts of blue led moonlights 716 WATTS

All fixtures are 15.5'' wide and 4.25'' tall

PLUG AND PLAY READY TO OPERATE UPON ARRIVAL

EACH UNIT COMES WITH 3 CORDS so you can add to timers

Metal Halide bulbs included are 14k - Crisp white with a touch of blue

T5 HO Bulbs are True blue Actinic bulbs - nice deep blue color

moonlights are a deep blue color

Ballast is built right into the fixture so you do not have too many wires to deal with

$149.99

 

[tpdpercula]

Im a mogul fan rather then HQI. I would be curious how the interior ballast lasts with all the heat opposed to it being external.

 

[elegance coral]

That would be more than enough light, but they are out of stock in the 48", on your link.

 

[John Quattro]

That's fine. I'm sure that I can find another one somewhere on the internet. I just wanted to make sure that that light would do the trick. It's also weird that the light I have now was like $400.00, and the one I need is only $150.00. Now, just what to do with the other light, when I get the new one. It's barely 8 months old...:fish1::fish1::fish1: