BTA moved under rock

[rachelcb80]

Got home from being out of town for a few days to find everything in my tank a-okay except my BTA. Have had this BTA for over two weeks, it hasn't moved an inch in that time and been totally happy (expanded and bubble tipped 95% of the time). I left town Monday afternoon, spot fed it before I left and came home just a little bit ago. Tank parameters are all good (1.025, 80 degrees, 8.4 pH and 0ppm ammonia, trite and trate) and though it wasn't spot fed for the past couple days (I normally do it every other day) there has been an auto feeder so I'm sure it's filtered out some stuff from those feedings. Anyways, it's under the rock it was on top of and obviously not expanded or bubbled up. Do I leave it be or what? Will it come out on it's own?

Rachel

 

[TOURKID]

Leave it be for a few more days. Keep monitoring your water, and make sure your lighting is still on the way its supposed to be. If it still stays shriveled..

PERSONALY, I would flip the rock over. Your going to have to be extreamly slow in the process and make SURE the foot doesent get torn.

Some people will say to just leave it be period. But Ive had to move my nem in the past.

Ive had my nem 10 months, and its always been healthy. for 8 days strait it acted strange and was shrinking up every single night. Its foot was wrapped around a long thin rock. I finally flipped it over and freed its foot and its right back to being normal and happy, it moved about a half inch to reposion its foot. I think it would have died

 

[rachelcb80]

Thanks Tourkid.

I checked on it a little bit ago and it's expanded out some and bubbled up a little, though not nearly to full size like it has been. I really thought I got lucky and had positioned it somewhere where it would stay happy. It was in the perfect spot in my tank, now who knows where it will decide to land.

Rachel