Bta ?

[jc286006]

My BTA keeps turning upside down what is up with this behavior? he got upside down over night and i thought he was dead so i flipped him back over and placed him on a rock he crawled off it and fell back to the sand upside down so i flipped him back over and now hes turned himself upside down again whats up with this behavior?

 

[redvipe2010]

Do you have any pics? I'm not convinced this is a BTA.

Any anemone upside down does not sound good. How long have you had it?

What kind of lighting do you have?
What are your water parameters?
How long has the tank been set up?

 

[jc286006]

tank params are
ammonia -0
nitrite-0
nitrate-0
ph-8.4
temp-81.7
the tank has been setup for 2 months everything is doing great i have copods-isopods everywhere,2 clowns,1bi-color blenny and numerous sponges growing,hydroid jellyfish
lighting is 6-32watt t-8s overdriven to 60 watts
2 actinics
2-6500k
2-18000k
1-48inch strip of blue LEDs for moonlight

i came home again last night to find him upside down trying to commit suicide placed him on rock work and he plumped up again this morning he has moved into an area underneithe some rock work but is upright and looking good. maybe i have tooo much water flow for him!!!

around 1200 gph going through the sump returns and close to 1200 gph in 4- power heads that is way under what i figured i would need for corals 40x gph

just since i have started this reply he has moved further down into my rock work but he is not upside down atleast!!! i just got him saturday so it is new to the tank.when i picked him up at the LFS he was in a corner of the disblay tank in slow water i would guess. his tentacles were waving in the flow but not as much as here in my tank.

 

[seaduck]

Sounds like hes trying to avoid the light. Was it in full lighting when it turned upside down? May need a chance to adjust to ur lights.

 

[jc286006]

when i got home work it had moved into the darkest area in my rockwork almost no light there and it had curled up and looked dead! i moved the rock and removed it from that area and smelled it since that is the only way i have found here to tell if one is dead and it just smelled salty so i moved a few rocks and made him an area under a flat rock were it can get circulation but no direct light it is looking 100% better than how i found it when coming home from work. i guess only time will tell now! i retested all my parameters and everything is were it should be one thing that might have caused this now that i think of it is the LFS were i got it has their SG at 1.025 were as mine is at 1.027 would that be enough of a variation to cause its reaction?