clip on 6500k light work for RBTA?

[sw1tched]

I have an RBTA and 2 clowns in a 210 aquarium. The clowns are 1/2 tard and have decided to host my back overflow box instead of my gorgeous rbta. They even take food to it and watch the overflow "eat the shrimp." So here is my plan. I am going to plumb a 10 gallon tank into my system and run it beside my current setup. take the rbta and the clowns out of the 210 & place them in the 10 gallon with a couple pieces of rock. hoping that they decided in a week or so to host the rbta. Then after a couple weeks of getting used to hosting it, I will put them back in my main display.
Now the question.

would a clip on 6500k light work for an anemone for a couple weeks?

I dont really wanna buy a nice light since its very temporary. also I currently run some 250 watt halides and the tank will get spill over since it'll be directly next to the main display.
are there other alternatives?
Thanks for the help.

 

[azchow]

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Yes . The light will be fine . In fact my brother is using a 5000k bulb on his . A 6500k bulb is a day light bulb .

 

[davocean]

Sounds like alot of work w/ no gaurantees, and if I did that I'd lean toward a bigger tank than 10g myself, but I guess you are trying to force close proximity.
That spectrum would not be my choice, better for fuge/greens, and those clowns could take much longer than a couple weeks to hop in that nem.
My picassos took 3-4 months to accept their malu, occelaris could take longer, or not at all.

 

[1crazymofo]

i had occys take overnight

 

[UnknownFish]

My Occelaris's wanted nothing to do with my rbta, I was at a buddy's and he was getting rid of a Occelaris that hosted his rbta, I took it home and put it in my tank with my other 2 clowns and the rbta, his clown went right up to the rbta almost right away and in about a week or so the other 2 decided they would try it, now they kicked the new guy out of the rbta and I had to get a 2nd rbta for the other clown, all 3 get along great, been this way for about a year now.

 

[Mavrk]

My Occs took 3 months to go in the RBTA (well, the female was 3 months, the male another 3 months after that). They had completely ignored my frogspawn for at least a year before hand.

 

[vaporize]

I use 6500K 70W MH to propagate mine, they don't seem to care either way. But yes, I have used the home depot 6500K PC bulbs too. As long as they are "tank raised" or lived in tanks for a long time, they do not see a difference. Fresh ones tend to be a bit more finicky in comparison

 

[davocean]

My reason for not leaning toward that spectrum is it could promote unwanted algae growth.

 

[sw1tched]

is there a cheap alternative to the 6500k bulb?
I have a couple laying around that I use for chaeto in the sump and I get coraline that grows in my sump, so I figured I'd give it a shot for the small tank for a couple weeks. I figure I'll give them a couple weeks to host the rbta, and if they don't, I'll put them back in the tank & hope someday they find it. The 210 is just so big that they dont seem to notice the rbta where it currently hangs out in the tank. The nice thing is the water quality will be the best a 10 gallon tank has ever seen since it'll be plumbed into a 250 gallon system.

 

[clowns101]

My reason for not leaning toward that spectrum is it could promote unwanted algae growth.

I agree,but you have to think,its alot eaiser to get the deep red color with a lower K bulb IMO.Plus its just in a prop tank,not a display.

 

[davocean]

Not sure I agree w/ getting deeper red color w/ that spectrum, I had awesome deep red color under preferred lighting on several nems, my avatar being one.
And yes, it's a temp/prop tank, but that wouldn't make me think to give less than it should have for that reason.
If OP's reason for doing this is to force hosting(which I'm not a big fan of) that could end up taking quite a while.
I'm all for hope for the best, but plan for the worst on that one.
Not saying it won't work, but wouldn't be my first choice, especially when there are clip on's or small T5's that would be a better/more practical spectrum for maintaining health and color.