BTA's

[yama63]

I had a nice big green BTA until i desided to cure my live rock and some of the rock fell In turn it happen to be the one my green BTA was on Know a few weeks later i have three little BTAs flotting around What to do I bummed because that was the bigger of the BTAs and the clowns slept in that one Know there in a small rose Mybe 3 inchs.

What to do and what else can i feed for the rose and small greens to grow???

 

[sarahkucera]

I'm having trouble understanding what you've just typed, so please excuse me if I'm not actually answering your questions.

Why did you need to cure your rock if it was already in a tank with fish?

There isn't anything you can do about the nem being split. You're lucky it lived.

There isn't much you can do to make them grow other than to take care of it like you did when it was one big nem and be patient. You can try feeding two to three times a week with a nice meaty food like silversides, but don't feed any more than that because your nem needs to expell the waste before eating more food. I think if you try to overfeed, your nem will spit out the food.

 

[yama63]

Sorry My mind goes faster than my fingers!!!
I cooked my live rock because i was having a hair alge problem and wanted to start over

I'm thinking of gathering everything up into a 30 gal and making an anemone Tank only???With 175 watt MH with PC atinics

 

[sarahkucera]

Wow....ummmm....just....wow.
I've never had hair algae before, but I don't think that boiling all of your liverock to "start over" is a good way to treat the tank. I could be wrong, but I just did a quick look around on treatment for hair algae and I couldn't find anything reccomending boiling your liverock. I think for hair algae you want to buy whatever creature it is that lives on hair algae and put that in your tank.
Also, by boiling your liverock you have disrupted your tanks natural biological cycle, so by "starting over" you have made your tank not a suitable home for an anemone.
Additionally, unless you removed your anemone from the rock and boiled that rock too, the spores for the green hair algae were still on the rock your nem was on and have now most likely spread throughout the tank again and you will have another hair algae bloom eventually.

 

[yama63]

Its not boiling it recuring They call it cooking But all i'm doing is putting it in a dark rubbermaid container and curing it ang water changes to get the ditrus out

 

[TheVillageIdiot]

yama63, did you cure it all at once?