Any way to encourage RBTA to move?

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AliKat

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It's behind a rock where it can be seen. I have one of those magfloat things. I've been inching it toward the nem, hoping that the nem would move, but so far no good. Anyone have any recommendations? Otherwise, I'm going to have to move around all of my live rock to get the anemone back out front.

Thanks!
 
Well you need to figure out why it moved back there. I think at this point getting your water params back in line would be more important than the rbta being in a less than ideal location.

To get it to move you could try aiming a powerhead directly at it or it's foot.
 
Well, the RBTA has been there for awhile, so it's probably comfortable. The problem is that I can't get to it to feed it. It's got itself wedged in between a piece of rock and glass. I just need it to move forward a bit.

Moving the rock is an option, but I'd have a lot of coral and live rock to move to be able to get to it. I may certainly wind up doing that, though.

Lance, water params looked good last night except for nitrates and phosphates still being a tad high. Everything else is back in check, and I'm getting a phosphate reactor so things should be getting better. I'm going to check the water again tonight when I get home.
 
Is it getting any light where it is?

For feeding you could feed it with some mysis shrimp. I have a 2.5' long bamboo stick that I rubberband some airline tubing to. Once the mysis is thawed, rinsed, and soaking with vitamins in some tank water, I suck up some of it in the tubing and blow it on the anemone. It should be relatively easy to feed it this way.
 
I have some mysis shrimp and have tried feeding both the RBTA and my sun coral with it, but I must be doing something wrong because they are not taking it.

1. What vitamins to you soak in yours?

2. Any idea what I'm doing wrong? I'm just shooting the mysis close to the mouth of both the sun coral and the RBTA.
 
I soak them in Vita-Chem then after about 5 mins I mix them with some tank water to get them the same temp.

A good trick for feeding sun corals is to take a 2L plastic bottle and cutting it in half then you place the top half over the coral so it's completely enclosed and you put the mysis in through the top of the bottle where the cap use to be.
 
I tried feeding the sun coral like that (with a bottle top), but it's still not extending to get food. Maybe I should leave the bottle top on longer?

Does the sun coral prefer to feed with the lights off? That's when I have been feeding it. It just hasn't been extending its tentacles to get any food.
 
the sun coral is nocturnal, but can be trained to expect food when the 'sun' comes up--i fed mine every morning when the lights came on for about a week, and then day 8 it just opened up right as the lights came on. now i just feed my fish when the lights come on, the tentacles are already out looking for extras.
 
Sun corals can be trained to feed at anytime. Whenever the polyps are open feed them and eventually, or at least in my experience, the polyps will pretty much open all the time except to expell waste.

I have found that with the airline tubing/stick trick I mentioned above if you suck in tank water and blow it back out over the polyps for a couple minutes you can get them to open up.
 
Good news about the RBTA! I came home to find it in the process of splitting. Unfortunately, that means I have to make another big time water change, doesn't it?
 
mine split over a weekend, and i didnt notice until monday morning. we didnt confirm it until thursday morning. no water change.

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congrats though!

pics please?
 
I'd love to post some pics, but I can't figure out how to turn the flash off on this stupid camera! It's a Canon Powershot. Anyone know how to turn the flash off? :-)
 
your other hand?

i'm pretty technologically advanced, so i use a magazine or somebody else's hand...


(to cover the flash...yeah, its that lame...:)
 
Well, there's an idea. It's been one of those blonde days for me. I actually searched for my keys for two hours, and they turned out to be in my back pocket. How embarrassing! Yep, probably shouldn't have admitted that one...

I'll have to give the ol' "cover the flash" thing a try. Not sure there is enough light right now, though.
 
Guess I've figured out a new way to encourage a RBTA to split, although I was just trying to get it to move an inch to the right so I could feed it.
 
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