Anybody Need a BTA??
- Thread starter chemjoey
- Start date
Tomoko Schum
New member
I don't know if your clowns ever take up a residence in your BTA, but my clowns took two long years before they showed any interest in hosting something other than my Loc-line on my return. They finally took a notice of my Frogspawns when I moved two Frogspawns over to their favorite corner of the tank. Now they won't leave their Frogspawns alone.
Tomoko
Tomoko
crsswift70
Active member
i have 2 false perculas that would probably love to have it. only worry is, the tank is newly set up.
Tomoko Schum
New member
Actually it's the other way around: clowns are known to squash and stress out (may even kill) small BTA's.
I understand that BTA's and many anemone generally need a mature tank with rather pristine water.
Tomoko
I understand that BTA's and many anemone generally need a mature tank with rather pristine water.
Tomoko
8BALL_99
New member
H@rry and Tomoko are spot on, Your clowns hosting it won't help keep it alive.. Its true that they could even end up hurting it if they did host.
Ive got a BTA and my clowns ignore it.. They hang out by a return line.. In my other tank I dont have a BTA, But those clowns host a finger Leather..
I've thought about sticking my clowns in a small tank connected to my system with nothing but a BTA and maybe one rock in the tank.. Just to see if they would knotice it.. I figured once they started hosting it that maybe they would stick to it after I moved them back to the main tank.. But who knows..
Ive got a BTA and my clowns ignore it.. They hang out by a return line.. In my other tank I dont have a BTA, But those clowns host a finger Leather..
I've thought about sticking my clowns in a small tank connected to my system with nothing but a BTA and maybe one rock in the tank.. Just to see if they would knotice it.. I figured once they started hosting it that maybe they would stick to it after I moved them back to the main tank.. But who knows..
jrthomas40
New member
i would take it...as mine split when i got home from the store a few months back then one died a few months ago and the other died the other day or i should say just disappeared...so needless to say i dont have any luck with anemones but i am positive mine would inhabit immediately
crsswift70
Active member
He said it was drifting all over the tank and ending up behind the rock work. i guess it won't settle.
i have a standard 30g tank with a 140w PC lighting. I have a penguine 350 hob filter and a aqua c remora skimmer with maxi jet 1200 and 2 maxi jet 600's so i got plenty of water flow and all my paramaters are at 0. so i really dont know what is going on. the bta is a green tip and is about 4" when open. It just looks like it might be dying cause it kinda shrinks at night and sometimes durin the day.
8BALL_99
New member
You can't really go by them Shrinking up.. They just do that.. If it seems like it does it ALOT then it might be a problem. I've got a few anemones I"ve had since 04 and probably 1/3 of the times I walk in that room one of them looks deflated. I'd be more worried about it not staying in one spot for any length of time.. Also it doesn't hurt to target feed them some shrimp from time to time.. I buy frozen shrimp at the grocery store.. I feed each 1/2 shrimp. I do this proably about once a week. If they don't take it I just try again the next day.. If yours wont eat after a couple days then thats a pretty good sign its in trouble..
