BTA giving trouble
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nogascans
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" It eats whenever I offer it a food... and that is about 4 times a week...
What is very strange is that it never tried to move from this position. She really loves this spot. So I really don't understand what is wrong."
I would start by reducing feedings (as mentioned by AZJohnny) to start. I hardly ever feed mine (unless the hosted clowns bring some food back to host), and mine have split 4 x times now.
Sincerely,
David
What is very strange is that it never tried to move from this position. She really loves this spot. So I really don't understand what is wrong."
I would start by reducing feedings (as mentioned by AZJohnny) to start. I hardly ever feed mine (unless the hosted clowns bring some food back to host), and mine have split 4 x times now.
Sincerely,
David
I think it is Amphiprion ocellaris. The orange one.
Yes, I will try to feed it once or twice a week only and see what will happen.
I just asked is it normal for anemone to change coloration so much.
You can see the difference in coloration on first and second picture. Nothing else.
Besides that she looks very happy and healthy. Only coloration was my concern.
Reefpuck
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May still take a few months. Maybe the 2nd clownfish will host and pull the other one along.
You can try taking the anemone out (if feasible/on a smaller rock) and clownfish, and putting them in a small bowl together. Not ideal, but I recall a fellow reefer doing this a while back and it worked. You basically give the clownfish no reason not to start playing with the anemone...cause they have no where else to go.
azjohnny
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You might want to go with with a different breed of clown. For a BTA. Tomato, Clarkii and Maroon clowns are good matches. When I was acclimating my Maroon clown it was trying to bite it's way out of the bag when it saw my RBTA
Thanks guys.
Maroon is actually very cute. I will seriously consider buying that one.... although I hoped to make a couple of orange clowns.... I guess buying both of them will not be a problem.
The thing is, so far, in my almost 100 gallons tank I have only 4 fish - bangai cardinalfish, Blue hippo tang baby, yellowtail damselfish and small orange clownfish..... I didn't plan to have more than about 7 fish in total - I planned to add one more clown (to make a couple), copperband butterfly (because that is the most beautiful fish for me) and at the end yellow tang...
Somehow I am more into corals, anemones, shrimps... and everything else... trying to keep perfectly clean water and healthy tank. But I will probably end up on 10 hahaha :lolspin:
Maroon is actually very cute. I will seriously consider buying that one.... although I hoped to make a couple of orange clowns.... I guess buying both of them will not be a problem.
The thing is, so far, in my almost 100 gallons tank I have only 4 fish - bangai cardinalfish, Blue hippo tang baby, yellowtail damselfish and small orange clownfish..... I didn't plan to have more than about 7 fish in total - I planned to add one more clown (to make a couple), copperband butterfly (because that is the most beautiful fish for me) and at the end yellow tang...
Somehow I am more into corals, anemones, shrimps... and everything else... trying to keep perfectly clean water and healthy tank. But I will probably end up on 10 hahaha :lolspin:
djbon
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I think BTA color will appear lighter when they bubbled up or expand. They will move around if they are not happy. Mine was super happy, end up with 5 instead of 1 in 10 months. As long as you feed it regularly, enough light along with good water chemistry, they will flourished. It will move somewhere if splitting. I sold all my BTA as they reproduced too fast, always reappear near my SPS. With stinger, BTA surely will win the battle 
I think BTA color will appear lighter when they bubbled up or expand. They will move around if they are not happy. Mine was super happy, end up with 5 instead of 1 in 10 months. As long as you feed it regularly, enough light along with good water chemistry, they will flourished. It will move somewhere if splitting. I sold all my BTA as they reproduced too fast, always reappear near my SPS. With stinger, BTA surely will win the battle
Hahaha cool.
Mine still didn't split - I guess it's too early, and, thank God, it never moved from this spot. But it did grew at least 3 times of it's original size.
It's good to know that I probably don't have any reason to be worried because of color.
thank you all
rucnnefish
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While I also agree that your BTA is beautiful and it seems to be healthy, I would also like to point out that it seems to be void of any zooxanthellae. If it is eating food that you provide for it everyday and you quit feeding it as others have suggested, you may be taking away it's only remaining means of nourishment.
I also have 2 rainbow BTA's that are fading..ie their color is not as intense as when I got them. My water parameters are similar to yours but I keep my nitrates between 5-10. My phosphates are very low ( I only have to clean the glass once a week) so I believe extremely low or no phosphates could be the reason both our anemones are "bleaching".
Your rock in your tank looks very clean, do you think your water is too clean?? Do you think phosphates could be the issue??
I also have 2 rainbow BTA's that are fading..ie their color is not as intense as when I got them. My water parameters are similar to yours but I keep my nitrates between 5-10. My phosphates are very low ( I only have to clean the glass once a week) so I believe extremely low or no phosphates could be the reason both our anemones are "bleaching".
Your rock in your tank looks very clean, do you think your water is too clean?? Do you think phosphates could be the issue??
Actually yes.
It did came to my mind that water might be too clean. My phosphates are undetectable.
But people all over the net always talk water should be perfectly clean.
I had some hairy algae a while ago because I had some phosphates (you can actually see some algae on first picture from 3 months ago), but then I put phosphates under control and algae were gone in a very short time. I guess then it was because tank was still young at that time - only 3 months old.
Since then my tank is perfectly clean and water parameters are almost perfect - everything is undetectable - it is 6 months old now.
Probably Vitamin C dosing also helps with that because it is organic carbon (I am dosing only 5ppm of vitamin C powder)
Is it possible that anemone actually fading because water is too clean?
Someone told me once there's no such a thing as too clean water - so I stick to that hehehe.
I also have two bigger colonies of Xenia in tank, and they doing good - although many people say they like slightly dirty water.
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A small update.
I took this picture just now.
Unfortunately my phone camera can't handle actinic light so good, therefore colors are not authentic - everything looks blue on picture - like some blue mist...
...But, it seems that anemone gaining back some of its coloration. Very slowly, but it's happening.
I guess reason was probably that short tank infestation from before with bacteria that made water blurry for few days and probably stressed the anemone...
I took this picture just now.
Unfortunately my phone camera can't handle actinic light so good, therefore colors are not authentic - everything looks blue on picture - like some blue mist...
...But, it seems that anemone gaining back some of its coloration. Very slowly, but it's happening.
I guess reason was probably that short tank infestation from before with bacteria that made water blurry for few days and probably stressed the anemone...
