What happened to my anenome?!?!?

[seamonkey84]

Personaly I wish I went with LEDs from he beginning, but then again thee wasn't as many good spectrums as there are now. But if your going to go with t5ho, get one with individual reflectors if you can find them locally. Then to with ATI bulbs. If you have to order a fixture, there are tons of good ones out there.
Or like I said, LEDs vs the ~$100 a year in bulb replacement for four bulbs. If you don't like the price of the full fixtures or can't DIY, 3-4 par38 bulbs will do fine also I love my LEDtric full spectrum.

 

[sjwitt]

Good luck and let us know how the new lights work out. Added bonus might be that the corals color up some too. BTW, also wanted to say you have some nice looking rock in there! Once you get the lighting squared away I think you'll have yourself a very happy nemmie.

 

[SomeDude12]

See if it'll take any food. At this point, it may be your best option.

 

[BonsaiNut]

The light is low - and not very blue. You can tell by looking at your tank you could use more light. You only have low light inverts and they are not very intensely colored. You will need to feed your anemone while it is recovering its zooxanthellae or it will starve to death.

 

[sEaLiFe4LiFe]

I fed it some clam and ate it within 5 min. So I'm happy to see that it still eats and I know with changing the lights will be a step in the right direction to recovery I know of it dies in the tank say goodbye to everything so ill feed him every other day.. Swap out lights and patience and time will tell! Thanx again for everything!! Here's a pic after 10 months and my first ever salt aquarium

Before...

After... With new lights

 

[shifty51008]

the new lights look much better, what brand and such?

also you will have to acculimate the corals to the new lights, start with about 3 hours a day and increase it .5-1 hours each week till you get back to your normal schedual or you will burn them.

good luck

 

[SomeDude12]

Looks like some ATI's. Looking good! By the way, don't feed the anemone every other day. Once or twice a week is good.

 

[seamonkey84]

Yes, make sure you either run the lights for shorter times then increase, or put some layers of window screens on top of the tank to shade it a bit, them remove a layer every 3-5 days.
Or if your fixture allows it, run just half the bulbs for a couple weeks them turn them all on gradually.
The color spectrum is really up to you as long as your using reef bulbs. Some like a warmer looks, most like it bluer to bring out more colors.

 

[sjwitt]

Lights look really good. Keep us posted on the progress.

 

[twilmot]

The lights look really good compared to the old ones. Good luck on getting back to health.