<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8782201#post8782201 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by 55semireef
Wow Phil, that Rose bubble tip anemone is pretty...bubbly. Was it a different type of morph or was it just the conditions that caused it to bubble up so much like that?
I actually like the classic bubble/nipple tips on the green one better.
To tell you the truth, I kept/shopped for anemones for almost 10 years before I saw a BTA
without bubble tips. The first one I ever saw without bubbles was in an LFS display that had metal halides.
You are too young to know, but 15 year ago not many people had metal halides or even VHOs. There were no PCs or T5s. If you ordered a 400 watt MH, the FBI would stop by your house to make sure you weren't growing pot in the basement.
Most of us reefers(no pun intended) would just pack as many 40 watt bulbs over our tanks as would fit. I used 5 over my 60 gal 48" tank. I had two 20 gal tanks that I put side by side and put 4- 40 watt bulbs over them. I never had a BTA without bubbles and like I said, I never saw BTAs without bubbles in anyone else's tanks. Everyone used combinations of bulbs, usually an equal number of actinic to daylight (5000K to 6500k) bulbs, often two different brands of daylight bulbs.
I don't know if it is a question of intensity or light spectrum or something else, but it sure seems odd that you rarely see an established BTA that actually has bubbles anymore.
I suspect, but have no proof, that whether or not they bubble may be more of a reaction to the color spectrum than the intensity of the light.
