New lights installed. Seeing positive changes in my BTAs

[hotelbravo]

I have had my BTAs under marine orbit led for about two years now. Most people claim this fixture cannot sustain anemones but mine have done great growing from a half dollar to a soccer ball sized anemone.

HOWEVER I am upgrading to a 180 so I needed New lights to cover the 6ft tank and decided to go with ocean revive T247s and am seeing improvements at just 15% power. My btas are now bubbling and they have never done that and my large soccer ball size rose bubble split last night and looks like its trying to split again into 3rds.

 

[Reef enthusiasm]

How close to the surface was the nem with the orbit light?

 

[hotelbravo]

he was maybe 10 inches from the surface. the green bubbletip is alot higher than he is.

 

[hotelbravo]

this is the anemone before the split


this is after this split


this is where he sits in relation to the surface

 

[Reef enthusiasm]

he was maybe 10 inches from the surface. the green bubbletip is alot higher than he is.

Yeah, I have one coming and I have a 34 watt Marine orbit, is that ok for him or should I upgrade?

 

[Dkuhlmann]

Hodge, what do you have your blues and whites set to? I killed all of my acans and blastos with too much light from mine. I had the initially setup for 60% blue and 40% whites. This was coming from the Chinese Black Box set at 100% blues and 60% whites. I'm not running 35/5

 

[hotelbravo]

Im running 30% blues and 20% whites. I started at 20% blues and 15% whites but upped them yesterday

 

[Dkuhlmann]

How far above the water do you have them mounted? I've just started keeping my blues at 80% no whites to allow my corals to come back from where they were before I torched them with my whites of the new lighting. These things are BRIGHT! Organism suggested to me in another thread about doing the blues only and it made sense so I'm going to give it a try. My lights are 13" above the water and for me to go any higher I would have to redesign how I have them mounted.

 

[hotelbravo]

Well right now the lights are on the 90 gallon because I wanted to acclimate them to the lights before Moved them to the 180 gallon so they do not have two things to stress about (lights and the change in environment) and instead just the environmental change.
So the only way I could mount them on the 90 gallon was to hang them from the cannopy so they are waaay to close to the water maybe 3-4 inches over the water. On the 180 I have cut out places in the top of the canopy for them to rest in about 12 inches over the water

 

[phender]

FWIW, sometimes BTAs split in response to stress and not because they like the new conditions.

 

[hotelbravo]

I understand and have thought of that but the anemone has not shown any other signs of stress and looks fantastic before and after the split which leads me to believe other than stress is the cause

 

[Dkuhlmann]

BTA's don't only split due to stress.

 

[phender]

BTA's don't only split due to stress.

Didn't say they did. I was just pointing out that you can't assume that a splitting BTA is a happy BTA. Sometimes they split because everything is going great, but they will also split when conditions are changed quickly or they are stressed in other ways.

 

[hotelbravo]

Didn't say they did. I was just pointing out that you can't assume that a splitting BTA is a happy BTA. Sometimes they split because everything is going great, but they will also split when conditions are changed quickly or they are stressed in other ways.

either way it happened im happy. the anemone is happy. and so is the little clone.

 

[darmar7812]

Those btas look great, following along for in site as I'm also switching from orbit marine to Chinese led this week for my bta to be more happy hopefully

 

[darmar7812]

What brand Chinese led box did you get?