bta

[droberts]

my bta was the size of a fifty cent pice and this thing split last night! i thought they had to get larger than that before they would split!! i do feed it daily so maybe thats why it split so soon when i bought it they told me it was half of one that just recently split and i have had it about a month and now i have 2 just wondering if this was normal because my last rbta i had for 6 months and it was about three inces across and it never split. but now i have up graded the lights and my new rbta is already spliting

 

[clowns101]

Sounds like it could be due to the fact that it is streesed.

 

[Coral Hind]

Indeed... stress/truama often induces division. When you upgraded your lights did you shorten your photo period to account for the extra power?

 

[patriots81]

yup, stress

 

[garygb]

Yea, not good. Water parameters? pics?

 

[droberts]

yea its probably stress related due to the fact that i just moved the tank 2 days prior to the dividing. i just drained the water into buckets and put the fish into my other tank and the corals and the bta into a container until the tank was moved and set back up.
i moved the 55 and the 30 to make room for the 125 rr

 

[romsoccer12]

sounds like to me its not a bta, but a majano. type in majano in google and see what they look like. they really do resemble BTA's

 

[Coral Hind]

Colin brings up a very plausible explanation for it splitting at such a small size. We really need some pictures.

 

[patriots81]

do majanos look like rbtas though? like do they have the pinkish red color? or more like GBTAs?

 

[Gegivet]

My RBTA just split again also. The first time it split it was in a 20 gallon and only a little bigger than a 50 cent piece. The stress factor that caused the split was two 50% water changes in one week. This split (just yesterday) was due to me doubling the light the tank gets. Its now in a 75 gallon that previously had 354 watts, but now has 520 watts. My RBTA's are feed every 2nd or 3rd day, and hosted by the most agressive GSM i've ever seen (mainly directed at me of course). Tank paramaters are always kept good, 1.024 salinity with zero reading on everything eacept nitrates which read at 10ppm or less. What other forms of stress have you all seen that have resulted in splits?

 

[moevilla]

Mine just split a couple of days ago too. Had the circumference of a baseball. In tank for about 3 weeks from lfs. Fed it shrimp/mussels every 2-3 days. Do you think the split was due to stress after being in a new tank for 3 weeks?

 

[Coral Hind]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15516794#post15516794 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by patriots81
do majanos look like rbtas though? like do they have the pinkish red color? or more like GBTAs?

Yes, some actually do look like BTA's at times with similar colors. Since he stated this came from a known split of a BTA then it is probably just a BTA that split again from the stress of a new tank.

 

[Gegivet]

moevilla,
moving is stressful to anything (people included) but usally, in my experience that is, doesn't cause a split. I could be wrong, especailly since yours is a larger specimen than i've ever moved before, but have you done any large water changes after the move or anything else that could have stresses it? Also, how long has the tank that you put it in been up and running?

 

[droberts]

yes it does resemble a majano after googling it bet both of them still have the pinkish color i guess i will take the pic and see what everyone thinks before i decide if it should stay or go!

 

[seafansar]

I've seen pics of majanos that were very pretty, green with pink tips. Too bad they can be such a pain.

Here are my tiny, 50 cent sized RBTA to help you figure out what you have. These are for sure RBTA's and have tripled in size in the last few weeks. They were propagated and that's why they were so small.

They look like this now.

 

[romsoccer12]

on the 3rd picture, they all look like RBTA's.

 

[seafansar]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15534709#post15534709 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by romsoccer12
on the 3rd picture, they all look like RBTA's.

I know. I was giving droberts a reference to see if his anemones looked like mine or not.

 

[droberts]

thanks sara mine resembles what you have in the the 2nd pic. i have posted the pic to my gallery i cant figure out how to attach it to the thread but take a look and let me know what you think

 

[Coral Hind]

If it is "pics_003_1" then that looks like a BTA to me.

 

[seafansar]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15544257#post15544257 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Coral Hind
If it is "pics_003_1" then that looks like a BTA to me.

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