Anyone help id?
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Cleaned up the multiple posts ;>)<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9733367#post9733367 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by hoodrat
Ok i dont know why it posted it 3 times but it also wont let me delete the other 2 sorry...
btw: BTA
phender
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If you just got him, it is not unusual for them to refuse food for the first few days. Let is get settled in a bit first (a couple days) and then try again with small (pencil eraser sized) piece of silverside.
Is that the "sunset" or "sunrise" bta that are propagated in Colorado? If so, it is a nicer picture than most the ones I have seen before.
Is that the "sunset" or "sunrise" bta that are propagated in Colorado? If so, it is a nicer picture than most the ones I have seen before.
hoodrat
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Yeah we did just get him he is already eating. I was giving my clowns some krill and decicided to give it a piece and it ate it so i gave it a second small piece. Ive been tryin to figure out what type of BTA it is. This morning it is open more and lookin good and still sitting in the same spot 
phender
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When I have heard discriptions of this particular color variety, they are said to have a green base with orange tentacles and yellow tips. Until hoodrat's picture, most of the pics I had seen were either brown with a hint of orange or green bases with copper colored tentacles (which looked like a normal cheap rbta that fades to brown in your tank to me). Hoodrat's picture is the first one I have seen that actually matches the original discriptions of the "sunrise" bta.
Last I heard the prices ranged from $300 to $1200. I don't know how many were actually sold at those prices. There were being sold from the original owner and through a LFS in Colorado Springs (I think?).
The thing about BTAs though, is once you sell clones of your unusual color morph, the people you sell them to can start propagating them and undercut your price.
hoodrat
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The guy i got it from has sold some on the net and he has been propogating them for a long time. He has a bunch of them and they are all brightly colored like this one and some are huge. I might have a pic that i took about a year or more ago with his clowns let me see if i can find it. he is looking better today out waving around.
