Why would Sebea bleach under MH's?

[kogle]

I think my upgrade to MH's has doomed my anemone. It started moving last Thursday. I was out of town for the weekend and when I got home I found the anemone under a ledge and it is looking quite bleached. How could this happen in 3 days? I thought anemone's liked intense lighting.:help:

 

[bang guy]

Anemone need to adapt to new surroundings. It will probably be fine now as it can slowly start to move out from under the rock and acclimate itself.

 

[thomas712]

You might explain from what type of lighting you did have, hours per day and such, then explain about your MH and hours per day.
When I added MH to my setup, I only ran them for 1 hour per day, for several weeks, then went up to 2 hours per day, then 3... I took it real slow, none of my anemones showed any stress from the new MH lighting.
Gotta go slow.
Thomas

 

[kogle]

Thanks guys, I went from 195 watts of PC to a 250w MH and 130 watts of PC. My photo period is 8.5 hours of PC before and 9 hours PC now with 4 hours MH. Maybe I should cut back the MH to one or two hours per day.