sorry to be asking so many questions about anemones but I have so many questions about mine in my 55g tank.
ok the question that I have is manly for the people that have had an anemone for at least 1 year or have a carpet anemone. I want to know what your tank is set up is and with picks if at all possible,thanks. I want to manly know what you lighting is and if you add any chemicals to the water.
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Not sure about a carpet, but anenomes are all about good husbandry and established parameters. They are really picky and demand good water and not a lot of changes from what I have read.
We keep a bubble tip in our 28g and it is pretty temperamental, but we have been successful.
it said this about lighting "All three species of large carpet anemones need intense lighting. VHO, T5, or metal halide lighting will be a necessity, depending upon the depth of the aquarium. Lighting in the 5,500-10,000 kelvin temperature range is recommended, excessive use of the blue spectrum is useless from a photosynthetic perspective and energetically wasteful. S. haddoni and S. mertensii are more adaptable to variations in light intensity than is S. gigantea."
I have 13,400K in lighting for the tank but I don't know if that Kelvin is related to white light or to the blue light as well but if it is not considering the blue light than I have 6,700K in the tank for white light. so do i really need more light in the tank?
Phishnoob I keep a LTA in my 29g bio-cube for about one year be for trying to add it to my 55g tank it did not like the change. I tryed feeding it tonight but it did not eat the krill so i guess I will try in like two days from now.
Both sets of pic's were taken in a 55gl tank. In the first set you can see that the color is faded and the area between the tentacles has been expanded. This exposes more zooxanthellae to light. The color in the second set of pics shows a darker color and the tentacles are more closely packed together.
The anemone was not happy and was moving all over the tank in the first set of pics. There was four 55W compacts and two 40W fluorescents over the tank, but it wasn't enough to keep the anemone in one place and healthy. The second set of pics were taken with the above lights and a 250W MH.
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it said this about lighting "All three species of large carpet anemones need intense lighting. VHO, T5, or metal halide lighting will be a necessity, depending upon the depth of the aquarium. Lighting in the 5,500-10,000 kelvin temperature range is recommended, excessive use of the blue spectrum is useless from a photosynthetic perspective and energetically wasteful. S. haddoni and S. mertensii are more adaptable to variations in light intensity than is S. gigantea."
I have 13,400K in lighting for the tank but I don't know if that Kelvin is related to white light or to the blue light as well but if it is not considering the blue light than I have 6,700K in the tank for white light. so do i really need more light in the tank?
Kelvin is the color not the amount of light. 6500k is yellow, 10,000k white or daylight and 20,000k is quite blue. There is more usable light (PAR) coming out of lower kelvin lights. That quote is merely saying you do not get as much usable light for your nem from a 20,000k bulb as you do a 10,000k bulb.
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You also cannot add the Kelvin temperature values together to get a higher value like you do with wattage. A 10,000K bulb is always a 10,000K bulb and running 2 of them does not give you 20,000K.
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I tryed feeding it tonight but it did not eat the krill so i guess I will try in like two days from now.
