hows my BTA looking?

[chewieee]

 

[chewie]

Looks bubbly!

Can you get a shot with daylights on?

 

[chewieee]

yup here you go

 

[GSMguy]

Sweet color combo. nice.

 

[kar93]

Looks nice and healthy

 

[Eklikewhoa]

That thing looks gorgeous!

 

[H2OBUM]

i hope it's enough lighting

 

[Aquarist007]

interested in how much space you have left for it from the other corals--can you post a full tank shot?

 

[Haddonisreef]

Is that from the greadful dead era? Awesome tyadie color:bum:

 

[Haddonisreef]

I ment Greatful Dead!! LOL

 

[chewieee]

full tank shot as requested

 

[reefman13]

Looks like enough to me

What lighting do you have on it? Your profile says 4x 65W PCs? And the tank is 75g? Thats 1.733334 watts per gallon......

 

[chewieee]

4 X 65w = 260w = 3.4w per gallon

 

[ezcompany]

thats a little iffy. don't go by watts per gallon, its a very old and inaccurate measure to add livestock that need light.
100 watts of T5s and 100 watts of Power compacts are two very different amounts of light. True measure of how much light they get is through PAR, not even lux

 

[Aquarist007]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11217506#post11217506 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ezcompany
thats a little iffy. don't go by watts per gallon, its a very old and inaccurate measure to add livestock that need light.
100 watts of T5s and 100 watts of Power compacts are two very different amounts of light. True measure of how much light they get is through PAR, not even lux

the anenome seems happy with the lighting--if it wasn't it would have moved

 

[Slakker]

Not necessarily, afaik it's a fairly new addition, and an anemone will stay where it is and bleach from lack of light as long as other parameters are suitable.

Are those clams in there?

I don't know how long everything has been in there with the lighting you have, and from what i can tell it looks to be healthy, but even so, I'd look into upgrading fairly soon.

 

[reefman13]

Agreed! Seems my calculator is getting a little slow

 

[GSMguy]

the anemone is new to the tank


i saw it at the LFS two weeks ago.

i think its time to upgrade lights but a bta can definetly live under pc.

 

[chewieee]

you think if i added a 2 bulb T5HO 54w fixture that would help out for awhile till i can save up money to go all t5?

 

[Reefer Brandon]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11223373#post11223373 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by chewieee
you think if i added a 2 bulb T5HO 54w fixture that would help out for awhile till i can save up money to go all t5?

Any light addition will help for now, yes. Anemones always look good at first, but under your current lights I would fully expect it to dwindle. Unless of course you feed it regularly.