LED acclimation for my anemones

[Curt2199]

About 2 months go I added a reef breeders photon 32 over my 105g cube with no lenses (120 degree) spread. It's mounted in my canopy probably 7" over the water on a. 22" deep tank. I started the led peaking at 25% and have stepped it down over the past 2 months to where it now peaks at 10% throughout the day. My blue gigantea looked great before when under t5s and has since bleached out all except his blue tips and moved to the bottom of the tank in between rocks. A gbta split and one clone is in the dark and looks near death while the other one is bleached and near the top of he tank and bubbling.

Any ideas as to if even 10% may be too muchl light at this height or if they will adjust and if so, how long does it normally take for anemones to recover from something like this. My carpet seems to be slowly gaining some color back but it's mouth is still not as tight as I'd like to see at times. In trying to avoid mounting the light higher due to the tank being in my living room and light spilling out everywhere.

Curtis

 

[iamarchitecture]

i had this issue with my photon32 (which i recently sold) the light just overpowered everything in the tank.
IMO the only way to ramp down the light is to raise it, however it will cause light spillage due to the optics in your light.

 

[sharkks]

I have 2 photon 16 reefbreeders mounted about 10 inches above my tank with 90 degree optics and my 2 GBTA's LOVE IT. I am running between 30-50% both white and blue on both lights and they are both at the very top of the rocks probably 2 inches from the surface. Both spread way out and are huge.

I guess I don't have a point except to say I do think it is very much possible to keep them under these lights so maybe it depends on multiple factors. I purchased both from another hobbyist who also kept them under a LED's.

 

[SNAKEMANVET]

I changed from 2 250 watt mhs to 2 ai sol blues.I run the ai's at 55% on all colors.My mag hasn't moved and still looks good.My ais are 13'' awl,and they have been running now for 4 weeks.

 

[Curt2199]

Here is what the tank looks at with all channels at 15%. As you can see the light is pretty close to the water. A couple pics below of corals are with leds at 10%. I'm not sure if you can tell if the lighting it too strong from the pics?

I'm actually going to Lowes today to get the parts top make a bracket to hang the light over the tank around 12-18" above the canopy so that should help alleviate a problem with too much light.