Bta just sits on sand???

[slickace17]

the more you mess with it, the more you will tick it off. i still say it's a condy, not a bta. a condy will move all over until IT finds a place it likes. it won't care where YOU put it. if it doesn't like the location, it'll take a walk.

i don't know what you paid but i'm sure you probably paid too much if it was sold to you as a bta. you will either have to take it back if the lfs allows returns or you will just have to leave it alone till it finds where it wants to be. and that's no guarantee it'll stay in that spot forever.

I paid 35 for him and I think it is a long tentacle an enemy I look up some that would be his color and saw some pictures just like it he doesn't move at all just lays around on the substrate.... The current moves him a little tho that's about it

 

[slickace17]

Michael's and Walmart sell plastic canvas sheets.

You can wrap these around the sides of your powerheads and ziptie them together. This may keep your nem from getting chopped up.

I think I will try to leave him alone and see if he will move on his own like I said he is responsive to touch his mouth is slightly open a little bit but beside that he looks healthy besides not anchoring himself

You can try to cover him with sand which would hold him down for a bit. It worked once for me, but like others said, he will wander until he's happy.

 

[Dkuhlmann]

I'm still going with LTA and they need a deep sand bed to anchor their foot. Why don't you try pushing some sand deeper in one area and then hollow out a hole to put his foot in then push the sand back around the foot. This is best at the base of a rock.

 

[g_langley]

Also I' had one this same color before and he had bubble tips but he wouldn't anchor himself down and floated around until he got chopped in my powerhead �� he was my favorite I want another like him....This was before I had my skimmer and had an eheim cannister filter ehhh...

Do you still have the other BTA attached to the rock in that pic? He looks like mine did before I realised I was frying him with my LED's. I'm not sure what lights you have and what percentage they are running at, but just saying.

 

[joshbrookkate]

How old is your tank? Anemones don't like tanks under a year old.

I'm not highly experienced with them (I have 2 carpets, 3 flower and two RBAs), but yours looks like a long-tentacle, not bubble. Bubbles sell for 80-100. Long-tentacles about 40-60 bucks.

I agree with the ID. LTA, not bubble tip. I have found them much more challenging to keep happy in my tank.
If I were you, I'd return him now. Get something that will be easier to care for.

 

[slickace17]

Here he is still laying on side my clowns are trying to host him but he lays on his side and drifts around the tank... Any other people experience this???

 

[slickace17]

 

[Dkuhlmann]

I'm still going with LTA and they need a deep sand bed to anchor their foot. Why don't you try pushing some sand deeper in one area and then hollow out a hole to put his foot in then push the sand back around the foot. This is best at the base of a rock.

This is what you need to do to get it to anchor it's foot. I said this a week ago.

 

[slickace17]

This is what you need to do to get it to anchor it's foot. I said this a week ago.

I have tried that numerous times he seems to just uproot himself or fatten his foot until he ejects himself from the position he seems to like laying on side

 

[Nina51]

your substrate looks pretty course. i wonder if that is why he won't leave his foot buried when you try it. maybe it's irritating to him? wonder if he would bury and stay put if you had finer sand.

i dunno, just throwing out ideas. thinking which surface i would rather sit on...gravel or plush carpet.

 

[Dkuhlmann]

Nina I think that's a great idea. Put a few cups of finer sand in the area where the OP would want the anemone and place it there and place the anemone like I suggested above.

 

[Nina51]

yeah, that's what i was thinking. much easier than replacing the whole sand bed. hopefully, OP can figure this all out before the nem gets up close and personal with a power head.