New lights and anemone

[blout]

Ive just purchased a T5 overtank luminaire which comes with 2, 14k marine white and 2, marine blue every thing in the tank loves the new light exept for the the new anemone ( its a large ritteri ) the strange thing is it loves the old tubes but when i put the T5 on it dosent seem to like it could some one help as the waters perfect PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Navarre]

how long has tehse new lights been working? The anemone might take some time to adjust to the new lights. Even when changing bulbs on halides, corals etc can go into shock so just give it a few days to see if it slowly comes around.

Another possibility is that you have changed the K ? Were your lights higer K than the new ones? sun light is closer to 7.5k and you are now moving a long way off of sunlight.. 14k with actinics which are closer to 22k so you could average them out to about 18k. This is a very cold light and a long way from natural sunlight (which is what anomeones love) Lovely for showing off colours though. Again, i would give it time and see if it can adjust. It will probably move higher up to get closer to the lights if it feels the lights are not strong enough.

 

[Great Lakes]

What were you using for lighting before?

I agree with Navarre, that is real "cold" lighting.

GL

 

[blout]

the tubes i was using before was normal stanrdard tubes and they about 5 months old. when it was at the LFS it was under 150w halides and although it was big it got bigger and had a more fuller look when it was under my lights (before the T5s). but now for the bad news my hungry peppermint shrimps thet are only ment to eat aptasia attacked it in the night and is now dead (bloody shrimps) . my shrimps now have a new home except 1 as he keeps hiding in the rock. as for how long the lights have been working they have been running for about 4 weeks now

 

[Navarre]

Sounds to me like a case of light shock.