How much light is too much light?

Dropjaw · 07/01/2018, 04:43 AM

I really have no clue how much light is too much light? If it is too bright? At some point of the day when my light is at max intensity my bubble tips tend to lose its bubbles and stretches out its tentacles and around late afternoon it bubbles up again with a different intensity.

Any general rule of lighting for RBTAs? I have been experimenting for 2 weeks now. They bubble up and lose it and do it all over again a few times everyday. How do you guys keep them on a steady bubbled state?

Ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 1 or less. Keeping it at this intentionally.
Phospate - 0.0
Dkh - 11-12
Calcium - 440 -450
Magnesium- 1450

accel · 07/02/2018, 10:32 AM

I think the bubbling is a heavily debated topic or still unknown why. I think the important thing is the anemones are staying put. I'd suggest getting a PAR sensor to see how much light ia being thrown.

james.lim.397 · 07/03/2018, 06:05 PM

So far I have kept mine between 150par to 400par no issue.

Whenever I feed, the bubble have more tendency to form.

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tthouston · 07/06/2018, 11:47 AM

All my Rose bubble tip and Rainbow anemones are the same, their tentacles are stretched out too. I would like to know what happens too.

BonsaiNut · 07/20/2018, 06:03 PM

Bubbling appears to be a result of many factors - not understood.

Let me guarantee you that in the wild you can observe fields of BTA clones - some with bubbles, some not, all in the same water with the same lighting and hosting the same clowns. Come back 24 hours later, and some anemones will have changed while others not.

I'm not saying it is random - I'm just saying it appears to be much more complicated than any single factor (at least that we are aware of).

07/01/2018, 04:43 AM	#1
Dropjaw Registered Member Join Date: May 2017 Posts: 11	How much light is too much light? I really have no clue how much light is too much light? If it is too bright? At some point of the day when my light is at max intensity my bubble tips tend to lose its bubbles and stretches out its tentacles and around late afternoon it bubbles up again with a different intensity. Any general rule of lighting for RBTAs? I have been experimenting for 2 weeks now. They bubble up and lose it and do it all over again a few times everyday. How do you guys keep them on a steady bubbled state? Ammonia - 0 Nitrite - 0 Nitrate - 1 or less. Keeping it at this intentionally. Phospate - 0.0 Dkh - 11-12 Calcium - 440 -450 Magnesium- 1450

07/20/2018, 06:03 PM	#5
BonsaiNut Premium Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Orange County, CA Posts: 4,629	Bubbling appears to be a result of many factors - not understood. Let me guarantee you that in the wild you can observe fields of BTA clones - some with bubbles, some not, all in the same water with the same lighting and hosting the same clowns. Come back 24 hours later, and some anemones will have changed while others not. I'm not saying it is random - I'm just saying it appears to be much more complicated than any single factor (at least that we are aware of). __________________ "You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!" - The Hobbit; J. R. R. Tolkien

07/02/2018, 10:32 AM	#2
accel Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2018 Posts: 110	I think the bubbling is a heavily debated topic or still unknown why. I think the important thing is the anemones are staying put. I'd suggest getting a PAR sensor to see how much light ia being thrown.

07/03/2018, 06:05 PM	#3
james.lim.397 Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2015 Posts: 15	So far I have kept mine between 150par to 400par no issue. Whenever I feed, the bubble have more tendency to form. Sent from my SM-G965F using Tapatalk

07/06/2018, 11:47 AM	#4
tthouston Registered Member Join Date: May 2014 Posts: 128	All my Rose bubble tip and Rainbow anemones are the same, their tentacles are stretched out too. I would like to know what happens too.