Cree LED's for Green Carpet Anemone?

[tallreefguy]

Hey guys - I'm just re-setting up my 90g tank. I haven't decided on lighting yet - but I'm doing to put a Green Carpet anemone in the tank.
It was originally going to be an all-fish tank, so I didn't want to blast 2x250 halides in there for 1 anemone.

Would running 24 LED's w/ 80 deg. optics + 2xT5's be good lighting?

 

[R33f3r]

Which species of carpet anemone?

 

[tallreefguy]

Not too sure. Looks like a Haddon's Carpet. LFS didn't say - just Carpet anemone.

 

[R33f3r]

Ok, you should be able to keep that one then. Haddoni's don't need the intense lighting that a gig does but even so, gigs can live and thrive under certain led setups. To me, it sounds like good lighting. How deep is the tank?

 

[tallreefguy]

It's a standard 90g - so I think 24" deep.
I was going to run 12 LED's w/ optics on each side plus 2xT5 54w retro's I have lying around.

It seems to be doing well in my small tank with a 250w halide on it. So I wanted to re-create that. It seems like 24 LED's would be more like a 250w halide, not sure though.

 

[Ryleerei]

Haddoni will be fine under leds. I have a green haddoni under AI sol blue. Run the whites at 50% and blues at 80%. Tank is 24" deep

 

[Ryleerei]

Took a pic this am for reference