BTA Tentacle Question

[JHiestand]

Hey everyone.. I have a green bubble tip and the tentacles are always long and stretched out. It has never actually looked like bubble tips except for the day I bought it. It is under 4 t-5 in a 72 gallon about 8 in from the surface. Is this normal or is it lacking something. Thanks for any help.

 

[Cryophilous]

As long as it looks healthy, and stays inflated most of the time, I wouldn't worry about it. No one has been able to find out why or what causes their tentacles to bubble up. A ton of BTAs have lived/are living happy healthy lives in marine aquariums with no bubbles on their tentacles.

 

[AndrewAP1]

FWIW my RBTA has skinny longer tentacles every day during day light hours. My moon lights switch on and the tentacles slowly get smaller and become bulbed.
This occurs every night and day.

 

[seamonkey84]

I have three in relatively high flow and lighting and they all remain bubbled. Bit I've also seen nems in high flow with long slender tentacles

 

[velvetelvis]

The tentacles on my BTAs change throughout the day. Sometimes they're the perfect fat little bulbs you always see in pictures; sometimes the anemones sort of sprawl out and the tentacles stretch way out like streamers. Sometimes a few tentacles are shriveled and the rest are expanded; sometimes they're all shriveled up. The anemones are eating and growing and staying put, so I'm assuming all are normal. Anemones are strange creatures.

 

[All6Fish]

Love the Star fish..........My RBT looks like yours and our have already split so now we have 2 ;O)

 

[JHiestand]

Love the Star fish..........My RBT looks like yours and our have already split so now we have 2 ;O)

Thanks, Yeah this one only had the bulbs for this first 4-5 hrs, now everyday it looks like this, stays out sometimes in the dark too, Must like the led moonlights.

 

[Brewchief]

My 90 gallon has turned into an anemone factory. I started with two RBTA and a GBTA and now I have 12 RBTA and 1 GBTA. They are all big and healthy, but there can be 3 in a row on the rocks and two will have bubble tips and the one between them will have long streaming tentacles. I've had anemones for three years now and still can't figure out what makes them tick.

 

[sparky45]

I have a nice big Rbta and it hardly ever bubbles up. I've had it for almost a year.