Carpet anemone question

[Fishy1]

I have a green one under MH right now. I am going to be upgrading my 55 gallon to a 120 soon. I like the looks of T5 lighting and was wondering if anemones need MH or if T5 can support them. Has anyone successfully kept a carpet under T5 lighting? Thanks for any replies.....

Janey

 

[pch90265]

Hmm, curious about the same... bump!

Running T5's (four fixtures, six lamps each) over 270G (82 l x 32 w x 26 h)

--Sean--

 

[phender]

Its all about light penetration. You can keep haddoni carpets until 4 watts per gallon of normal output fluorescents if the water depth is less that 15 inches.

When you start getting in the 24" deep range, you are going to need 250 watt metal halides.
I'm not sure that T5 light penetrates much better than PC lighting.

 

[pch90265]

Hmm, I don't know about the T-5 penetration... I'm keeping SPS on the sand in my tank -- Acros, specifically -- that normally only work under 250W halides... T-5 HO's are working great for them, excellent color, fantastic polyp extension.

I wonder if Haddoni will fare as well . . .

BTW -- Nice Bernese Phil! Good looking pup.

 

[kbxiong67]

i agree with phender

 

[lemec]

From the test results I have heard...T5's have awesome PAR values and put any compact to shame for penetration

 

[vthondaboi]

from tests I've read T5 has stupendous penetration compared to other bulbs

phender
where did you find out that carpets require only NO lighting if the tank isn't deep?

 

[phender]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7257069#post7257069 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by vthondaboi
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phender
where did you find out that carpets require only NO lighting if the tank isn't deep?

This applies to only haddoni carpets and not gigantea carpets. Before the popularity of PC lighting and even metal halide lighting, I kept haddoni carpets under NO lighting. I had three different haddoni that were under my care for over 7 years until I gave them away, sold them or they fell victim to a tank tragedy.

Most of the common knowledge about anemone care comes from information collected by myself and Joyce Wilkerson in seperate but similar studies in the early 90's. Unfortunately, there hasn't been a whole lot of new information since that time.