I have a BTA that by all appearances is doing great. It's gone from about 3-4 inches in diameter to getting near 5 inches since May. It's ends are bubbling up just like the pictures, colors don't appear to be fading, opens every day when the light comes on and closes when it goes off so it's light responsive, etc.
So my concern is it won't directly take any food. It may be grabbing mysis or flake when it can, and sometimes it does close after I feed the tank so I'm assuming that it caught something.
Chopped silversides, clams, krill, mysis when fed intentionally, a few other things that escape me now have been tried and rejected. I've used very long tweezers, syringes with long feeding tubes, basters to blast food at it, etc.
So, if it's still growing, should I continue to try different things or assume it's got a system figured out? I don't want to pollute the tank or stress it out by trying to force my good intentions on it.
So my concern is it won't directly take any food. It may be grabbing mysis or flake when it can, and sometimes it does close after I feed the tank so I'm assuming that it caught something.
Chopped silversides, clams, krill, mysis when fed intentionally, a few other things that escape me now have been tried and rejected. I've used very long tweezers, syringes with long feeding tubes, basters to blast food at it, etc.
So, if it's still growing, should I continue to try different things or assume it's got a system figured out? I don't want to pollute the tank or stress it out by trying to force my good intentions on it.
