O.K. I'll stop pestering everyone with this thread after THIS post. (maybe).
About 4 months now. I'm feeling sure I'm "out of the woods" now. I've got it up to 9 hours of (2) 150 watt 10K and 12 hours of (2) 130 watt mixed white/blue PC lights. I tried to use a powerhead to force it onto a rock where I wanted, directly under a MH, but it didn't work how I wanted it to. It moved, but it went inbetween rocks, lower in the tank, where there's less flow (and light). I don't understand, but this guy seems to run from flow and light (stupid anemone doesn't know what's good for it). I try to keep blasting it, but it doesn't seem to like it much. I've removed all flow, exept a MJ1200 pointed right at it, on/off every minute about a foot away, where it seems to be doing very well with. Been in the same spot with that flow now for a few weeks. It doesn't look very good while it gets blasted, (tentacles go outside in, like a rubber glove sometimes) forcing the mouth open, flopping all over, but when it "rests" inbetween, it really inflates/closes the mouth right away, and moves (tentacles vibrate) alot! And looks very good while it rests. I can't believe the flow this thing can take!
Atleast now it's under all 10K lamps, like I wanted, and messing with lights is over. It's smack right in the middle of the tank, inbetween both 150 mh lights. I feed it every day, a meaty silverside folded in half. (I know, silversides are the "forbidden food"). Then I add a little Rods food ontop so the clowns eat that food instead of pulling the silverside out. I see it spit out an eaten fish (the tinfoil looking ball) everyday (or about 6-8 hours after it eats), it's digesting a silverside everyday.
My next battle is swapping my 75 out and dusting off my 210 to put in it's place, as this guy is growing quick! I'm a little nervous about the swap, as far as moving everything, AND not loosing stuff, because the best location for the 210 is where the 75 is,and that's where this guy is. A couple walls have to move, so the swap won't be done quickly either. Not looking forward to that.
I may have to cut back on the feeding soon, it's growing too much, but I hate to change what's been working so well.
For size perspective, the top clown is 1.75 inches long.
This photo (and the one above) is at "rest", and it shows how the tentacles are moving so much in this photo well.
If it changes much more, I'll post more, but I really can't imagine it getting any more blue or brown. It's lost all it's "milky" stuff that it got a few months ago, when the disk turned white. It looks kind of brown/transparent now. I can see in the chambers when it inflates and looks under pressure, like it's about to pop.
