bta location kinda odd to me

[reef tank 2.0]

About a month ago, I got a BTA and placed him in the tank. After a day or two, he settled in to what is now his home, and has been ever since.

He has managed to make his home on the side of a rock clear at the end of the tank. His foot is actually attached well underneath it, then it extends a good 4-5 inches out to where his actual body is. So body/tentacles stretch as far as they can to get light. So does not look very comfortable. But what do I know.

Why would he not detach his foot, move it closer, and not have to stretch so much to get to the light source?

I know you can't force a clown and nem to pair up, but has anyone ever had a pairing when the BTA is located on the side of a rock, rather than on top and flat? My two perculas pay zero attention to him. which is all good, but wondered if bta location might cause this pairing to not happen.

I will get a couple pictures of it tonight. The ones I currently have are not that great for detail

 

[JohnnyHildo]

I had very small but pretty one find a nice hole in the rock work in a spot I was completely happy with and then watched the nem slowly disappear down the hole never to be seen again. the morale of the story is anemones just seem to do what they do and there isn't much a person can do about it.
as far as your clowns go, hosting comes naturally to wild caught and not so much to tank raised. I've seen people force hosting by catching their clowns and basically reintroducing them in a bottomless cylinder that encourages the fish to make the connection but it isn't something that ever bothered me enough to try.

 

[hearttx]

It took about 4 months for my tank raised clowns to even look at my RBTA. Now they barely leave them.

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[Daddi0]

We have a pair of clowns and 2 RBTAs, the clowns dont go near the anemones and instead host a brain coral. The anemones have had all kinds of weird positions in the tank and we have had to move a lot of corals for them - no rhyme or reason. The Porcelain Crabs love the anemones and sit in them all day.
Cheers! Mark

 

[outy]

So body/tentacles stretch as far as they can to get light. So does not look very comfortable.

Normal, and they don't feel comfortable or not. Its getting light so its fine.

 

[reef tank 2.0]

Here are some pictures of the BTA.
one with blues off and the rest with
https://flic.kr/s/aHskqoRSxn

 

[hearttx]

It will move if it is not happy. That extension looks normal.

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[hearttx]

This one of the 8 in my tank.

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[Formulator]

Mine is almost the same position as yours. The anemone has split once and his offspring chose similar location. The clowns love them and have recently started breeding beneath the larger one. I suggest leaving it be. It will move if it must.

 

[Formulator]

Though I do see that your glass is a bit closer to the rockwork wall than in my tank. From my experience they really like to have their feet securely in a crevace, just like you have. I tried to get mine to move to the front a few times, but he is really content and secure where he is and I didnt want to risk injury by manually pulling him out. You might try pointing a powerhead at him. They dont like strong flow and he may decide he wants to move. Just be careful about other corals in the neighborhood. If you can tell by the picture, he killed my plating monti on the ledge above, but I chose to let him go since the clowns had just began hosting and I didnt want to bother that.