Anemone won't come into the light

[ultium]

First, specs:
30 gallon
250 w MH 10,000k
34 lbs lc
1.245 spec grav
temp 80
PH 8.3
Ammonia 0
Nitrate 15
Nitrite 0
flow - apx 20 times
Fish - 1 maroon clown, 1 LM blenny
Clean up crew - 4 sm hermits 5 turbo (I believe in adding clean up crew as needed so there is enough food to go around. Thus far my tank is very clean)
Tank has been set up for six months
I purchased the BTA six days ago and it appeared to be healthy to me based upon the research I have done as well as pictures I have viewed of healthy BTA's.
I put the BTA in the tank on some rockwork about 2/3rd the way down. Right away it climbed up to a big hole in one of my rocks that essentially functions as a cave. I can see inside the "cave" but it is certainly shadowed from the light. For six days the anemone has not moved from the spot and is getting very little light.
I am a bit scared that if I feed it too much it might become complacent in that spot and delay the time it takes to move out to where it can get some needed light. My hope is that if it is hungry it will come out.
It still appears relatively healthy and so the other side of me says that if it needs to move it will do so on its own. Though, my other big concern is that I know with their slow metabolisms, they are often slow to show signs of decline, and by the time they do it is often to late. It has shown no sign of wanting to move out yet. The only thing it has done was to close up the day after I got it for about four hours or so before it opened again.
Any suggestions?

 

[dmv]

There are 7 things that could be the reason its not coming out but perhaps as I found with mine if your lfs or whoever you got it from did not have it under metal halides it may need to adjust I put 7 layers of window screen over it and removed 1 every few days , they will go where they want keep an eye on it and good luck .

 

[dmv]

Oh yea I have also read that bta like it a little cooler I keep mine at around 76-77 deg f .

 

[ultium]

Thank you for taking the time to reply.
Good advice. As to the lighting, the lfs had it under okay lighting but it was not MH. I did not closely inspect the lighting but I would guess in was around 150 watts HO over a 30 gallon tank. I wonder now if that should concern me. Was the anemone getting enough light during its time in the lfs?
I assume feeding it in the mean time will help the transition, correct? My concern was that feeding it might make it more likely that it stays put. But I don't think I want to risk the alternative that it will stay put anyway and starve to death all the faster.
Btw, tonight after I started the thread, my clown found the anemone for the first time, has dove in head first and not looked back since. Is it possible this will help some with my problem by easing the transition for the anemone?

 

[dmv]

Ifeed mine about once a week I have not heard of many people feeding more than that roughly some 3-5 days I geuss its something you have to figure out by the looks of the bta , my saddle back clown also found my bta on the same day they were interduced together some say it helps but also if your clown is much bigger than your bta it could be smothering it causing it to be closed . The bta will go were it wants on its own so unless its headed straight for a coral or somewhere it will get hurt I would leave it alone and see what happens . maybe post a photo soon if you can ,

 

[lsu]

I agree with the light acclimation idea but if that does not work try adjusting your power-heads. I had the same problem with gbta. I adjusted a power-head that was aiming below a set of rocks to above the rocks and the anemone followed the flow to on top of the rocks.

 

[ultium]

Update:
He has climbed out just far enough that top fourth of him gets direct light. I also fed him a chunck of a silverside today and he snatched it up and sucked it down fast.
I think he will be okay.