Another "how do I move this nem" post

[E46Twist]

Hi all, so I purchased a BTA about two weeks ago and it immediately walked off into the back of my rock work. I searched for it after a few days to make sure it was still living as I honestly had little hope after it walked off. To my surprise I found a beautiful green BTA with nice fat tips hiding deep in a pocket on the back of a rock. I decided to give it at least a week to adjust and settle in and see if it would move. Well it did not and I checked on it a few more times to make sure it was still doing good. When I put it in I had the lights off and only ran my blues for three days after that because I moved all my coral around and put in about 10 new frags. I have been slowing ramping my whites back up but I cannot imagine it is getting any light where it is.

Here is the problem, the rock has about an 8 inch monti cap growing on the front side of it so I cannot really move the rock around. How long will a new wait to move to a better source of light? Also there is a crap load of flow in the back of my tank so I doubt it will want to venture out of the cave.

Things I have considered:

-Frag monti off rock and turn rock around, really don't want to do as the monti looks awesome where it is and adds a nice deep red next to the bright corals around it.

-move rock close to a power head and convince the nem out, or just move rock to a bad spot and let it walk out on its own time. Rather not risk losing the monti if the nem decides not to move.

-just say screw it and hope it out grows its cave and moves on its own eventually and just forget I have a nem for a while. The rock is actually a bit structural so I have to move a few rocks to check on it and one already fell on me and killed all but two heads of a trumpet that was about 20 head(20 damn years of growth for a trumpet it seems like.)

So what would you do?

 

[hotelbravo]

well im dealing with the same issue with my GBTA but I do not plan to do anything at all with him I will wait it out all the way.

 

[hotelbravo]

i lucked out with my RBTA he has only moved one time in over a year and that was only a few inches. he likes this one particular rock and i can move that rock wherever i want and the RBTA just stays there. ive posted pictures of my anemone to show how big and healthy it is usually to combat the threads that bash the light i use saying its not sufficient to keep anemones but when i show them pictures they claim things like "look how its climbed to the top of that rock its stretching and stressed and unhealthy" lol no it isn't. anyways back to the topic like i said in the first post i believe they will find where they are happy and stick with it. it in theory will not stay behind the rock and starve and die. if it can sense the light it should come out eventually when it absolutely needs the light to survive.

 

[E46Twist]

The nem wandered on to another rock that I was able to move to a better spot and now I think it may stay put.

 

[hotelbravo]

my GBTA came out today also and is looking pretty decent

hopefully neither one of ours goes back into hiding