New lights but with problems help!

[jgbryan02]

I just upgraded my lights this weekend in my 55 gallon reef tank, I was running only 2 15 watt-18k bulbs, no coral yet just one Atlantic anenome, the anenome was fine before and now that I added the new lights he just shrinks up. They are Coralife 260watt compact flourecents. 2 460 acentic and 2 10k bulbs. It seems to do better when I turn off the 10k lights, whats the deal? I was told that you need at least 3 watts per gallon. Thanks for any advise you can give me.

 

[swatskee]

break in the new lighting slowly, just like adding fish... over a week or so is what i was told to do and it worked for me.

 

[bigarn]

Originally Posted by swatskee
break in the new lighting slowly, just like adding fish... over a week or so is what i was told to do and it worked for me.
Good advice ... The animals have to adjust to the stronger lighting.