Any corals that will tolerate BTAs?

[dela]

So my bubble tip anemones like to move around and so far none of my corals seem to tolerate their sting.

Just wondering if there are any corals that will coexist happily with BTAs.

I'm about to aquascape and will likely end up trying to keep the anemones on one side and corals on the other.

Thanks

Mark

 

[bradleym]

There are no corals that will ignore BTAs, but a few that can fight and win against them. I had a friend who had mushrooms that would sting the anemones if they got too close!

 

[Curtis.H]

Good luck keeping the nem in one place. They'll move to where they want.

 

[bradleym]

You can keep them on their own side if you create a sand barrier and then point powerheads at the walls above the sand. BTAs won't cross bare sand or high flow unless they are dying or starving.

 

[mogurnda]

Heliopora (blue ridge) has its live tissue mostly on the inside, so is less bothered by anemones. I have a colony that has been getting brushed constantly by my GBTA. It is not ecstatic about it, but has dealt with it for years. Every other coral in the neighborhood has been roasted to death.

 

[bues0022]

I dislike when people perpetuate the myth that BTA's will just move when and where they want. It is against an anemone's best survival to continually move. I wrote this awhile ago, and keep copying for times like this:

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2148906

 

[bradleym]

I agree completely with your write up, but would like to add that healthy BTAs will often split, and one or both will often move, if only because 2 feet can't share the same spot as the old one.

 

[Sk8r]

Brown buttons, green star polyps, yellow star polyps, and discosoma red and purple mushrooms, also discosoma neglecta.

 

[snow flake]

i kept my rbta with my frogspawn and hammer coral it never hurt them and it didnt move!

 

[dela]

I dislike when people perpetuate the myth that BTA's will just move when and where they want. It is against an anemone's best survival to continually move. I wrote this awhile ago, and keep copying for times like this:

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2148906

I'm causing them to move by making changes to the pump and rock locations. As long as I don't move things they don't move.

Brown buttons, green star polyps, yellow star polyps, and discosoma red and purple mushrooms, also discosoma neglecta.

I spread my GSPs all over, so a few colonies have been brushed. When they do, they close up. I will try and pick up some mushrooms. I'm just trying to avoid all anemones on one side and all corals on the other.

 

[jeff@zina.com]

My BTAs don't move. A few days after a split or a new one is in the tank and it's permanently in that spot. The writeup is correct, as far as my experience has been.

Jeff

 

[dela]

My BTAs don't move. A few days after a split or a new one is in the tank and it's permanently in that spot. The writeup is correct, as far as my experience has been.

Jeff

If you alter the flow and/or their location, they will move.

Any other corals that will tolerate a BTA? I was surprised to see an orange cap not react to one of my BTAs, although the encounter only lasted a couple of days.

 

[dela]

My BTAs don't move. A few days after a split or a new one is in the tank and it's permanently in that spot. The writeup is correct, as far as my experience has been.

Jeff

If you alter the flow and/or their location, they will move.

Any other corals that will tolerate a BTA? I was surprised to see an orange cap not react to one of my BTAs, although the encounter only lasted a couple of days.

 

[Sk8r]

I've had experience with about 4 different types of nem (including the carpet that ate New York) and have never had a nem move once it settled. Nems and mushrooms find a spot they like IME and the only thing I've found that can move them is when you move something that changes the currents and where the food piles up.

 

[dela]

It's unfortunate that I started the thread with "So my bubble tip anemones likes to move around" as that seems to have derailed the thread.

Why the anemones are moving is not a mystery to me, as I'm the one making the changes that lead to their moving. :spin1:

Not sure which corals tolerate anemones well.

My cabbage leather tolerates my BTAs very well.