BTA help

[snappedbigfoot]

how do you know if your bta is healthy mine is realiy sucked inward it seems. heres some pics tell me if you think hes okay

 

[bertoni]

It looks okay to me. You could try feeding it, I suppose. I feed my BTA llancefish and krill.

 

[Toddrtrex]

It looks like it could use some more food/light.
What are your water parms and what type of lights to you have.

Are you feeding it currently at all? And I agree with Bertoni, I feed mine both lancefish and kril -- in fact just fed all of my anemones ( 6 in total ) tonight.

BTW -- in that one picture ( 3rd one ) it appears that you have another anemone in there -- looks like either a condy or an LTA. If it is an LTA, I would suggest moving it to the sandbed -- they prefer having their foot buried in the sand right at the sand/rock interface.

HTH

 

[kuoka]

Looks like it needs feeding. I feed mine silversides. I agree with Todd, BTA's need strong light.

 

[snappedbigfoot]

lta hes new today i was told that they to be stuck on some lr by my lfs store and that is the rock he was on at the store. So how do you feed them by a turkey baster or what my clown fish whos hosting with him won't he feed him. My nitrite is 0 nitrates are .20 I have a t5 over them right now might switch to power compact in two weeks

 

[kuoka]

I use aquarium tongs (you can buy them at your LFS). Also here's a link to some pretty good information on BTA's...

http://www.fishlore.com/profile-equadricolor.htm

My clowns don't feed the BTA's that I'm aware of. They do however chase away my tangs that try to pick the silverside from the BTA.

Good luck.

 

[bertoni]

I use gloves and touch the food to the tentacles.

 

[Dubbin1]

I never feed mine, the light is enough.