Is my BTA dying

[WILDTHING]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9061085#post9061085 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Slakker
.you're making it sound like you could throw the anemone in a 55 gallon drum with a couple of torches above it as long as you fed it.

But that is not what is happening here, the anemone needs enough light to sustain its zooxanthellate, this person has enough light to do that. This animal is capable of "walking" to the highest point on this reef and planting itself there if it so desires/needs. He is not using Normal output lights or "torches":rolleye1: he is using PC's in a very shallow tank, that are capable of good penetration in a small /shallow aquarium.

Please read the article I previously posted,there is more than one way to skin this cat.
:rollface:

 

[WILDTHING]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9061838#post9061838 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by pszemol


For more scientific aproach check this article out:
http://www.reefland.com/rho/0505/main4.php

Good luck!

pszemol, I totally agree with what you've said.

That is a very informative article, I posted it on page 2 also, unfortunately I think you and I are the only ones who have/are willing to read it.

 

[Slakker]

I'm not trying to argue that BTAs need metal halide fixtures, I'm simply commenting on the fact that pszemol sounded to me like he was downplaying the light requirements of an anemone.

Fair enough, Power Compact can, indeed, be sufficient for BTAs, but that isn't to say that maybe they'd do better under a little bit more powerful lighting, T5's for instance.

Breeder tanks are shallow, true enough, but someone with a deeper tank may not be able to get away with Power Compact fluorescents.

Anyways, I digress.

 

[gkimble]

See I knew it could be done. My anemone is at the top part of the tank, readily accepts food, full of color, and is growing.IT IS THRIVING

 

[Slakker]

Maybe it could hang out somewhere besides the top of the rocks if it had more light.

 

[WILDTHING]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9062701#post9062701 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Slakker
Maybe it could hang out somewhere besides the top of the rocks if it had more light.

????????

 

[pszemol]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9062610#post9062610 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Slakker
I'm not trying to argue that BTAs need metal halide fixtures, I'm simply commenting on the fact that pszemol sounded to me like he was downplaying the light requirements of an anemone.

That is correct - I tried to balance the simple fact that most of the hobbyist exagerate role of light in the meantime neglecting feeding, which in my humble opinion is MORE important to the health of the anemone than light. At least when talking about the bubble-tip anemone. This kind is not as demanding for strong light as many other anemones.

To coment on your other statements - read my first post again where I state about my anemone possitioning itself in the lower part of the rockwork under two powercompact lights. This prooves it does not want to have more light. If it wanted more light it could walk to the top of the rockwork. It is happy where it is for couple of years now not wandering aimlessly searching for metal halide

 

[Brazengrrl]

How can anyone give a diagnosis with out even a picture?? From experience I have had a bleached ( got him that way from the LFS) stuck him in a 3 week old 25 gallon tank under PCs and watched him color up and grow over the next year, because of him I upgraded to a 65 gallon tank with 2 175 w MH and 2 95w VHOs and watch him fold into himself about an hour after the lights come on and unfold when they go off. He has positioned himself at the very top of the tank, but it seems like he does not like the lights.
Just because it says so in a book or on a web site, advice is best given from experience, not something you have read.


in the beginning

about a year later

From your post, it kind of sounds like your nem was going to the bathroom, not a pretty site, but they get to looking better not long after.
Good luck!

 

[pszemol]

One more proof anemone can be overdone with lights under MH
MH are not always better for anemones!

About your coment on writing from experience...
I would assume a book or a website is written based on own experience, so it does not differ much from what you are doing

 

[Slakker]

How long ago did you upgrade to the new lights? I know that many anemones will close up when introduced to brighter conditions because it takes them some time to acclimate to the new lights.

 

[jc286006]

i have a ? how long do you have your lights on during the day? i have 2- actinics on for 12 hrs 2- 8500k on for 8 hrs and 2-18000k on for 6 hrs is this tooo much? then led moon light on for 2 hrs before and after daylights?

 

[jc286006]

also these are on timers to simulate the sun rising and setting

 

[Brazengrrl]

September was a year. I would run the atinics from 12:00pm untill midnight and the 14k 175w daylights from 1:00pm untill 11:00pm, but I have had an algae problem so my lights are on for about 6 hours a day right now.

pszemol
I understand, but I would not post any advice on anything that I have not tried myself, but just read. I can read and appreciate someone elses experince, but I can not give my opinion on it until I have done it myself, does that make sense?

 

[Slakker]

If everyone followed that, Brazen, where would our politicians be?

 

[pszemol]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9076178#post9076178 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Brazengrrl
pszemol
I understand, but I would not post any advice on anything that I have not tried myself, but just read. I can read and appreciate someone elses experince, but I can not give my opinion on it until I have done it myself, does that make sense?

It would make sense only if you did not trust yourself remember correctly what you have read
Other than that I see nothing wrong with quoting opinion from a book, especially if somebody mentioned that this one is from such a such book and not his/her own experience.

Does that make sense ?