lighting question

[richg315]

Happy new year all!!!

I want to eventually get an anemone for my clowns and was wondering if i had sufficient lighting. I've had my tank up and running for 8 months, have a pair of ocellaris clowns, cleaner shrimp, assorted mushrooms, zenia. The lighting i currently have running with my system is the 30" nova extreme saltwater. This consists of 1 24 w 10K and 1 24w 460nm actinic. Just wondering if this would be sufficient to host an anomene. My water parameters are in order and i feel that at this time i would have no problem hosting an anomene but wanted to make sure the lighting was ok. Thanks to all that reply!!!

Rich

 

[anemoneguy]

two things should be looked at. first is lighting and second is tank size. so imo i would only try a bta. for sure no ritteri or gigantia. i dont think light nor room would work for any other anemone. good luck.

 

[holdyourlight]

you sure its only a 2 bulb fixture? i thought those nova extremes were 4 bulbs!?

 

[richg315]

Yeah im sure there are just two bulbs. It's the 30" fixture.

 

[garygb]

I second what anemone guy said, only consider Entacmea quadricolor and then only if the anemone can be kept within a foot or 15 inches directly under the two bulbs. I would consider changing out the pure actinic with a blue plus or other blue bulb that still has a very high PAR.