Bubble tip disappeared

Gandolfe

Gandolfe

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Last week my bubble tip was falling off the rock I had moved him to so I was trying to grab him and move him away from powerheads and intake, when it slipped under the rocks and disappeared out of reach. It meant tearing apart my tank to get it so i figured i'd let it climb back out on it's own. Then my engineer Goby buried it in with a big sand pile. I thought it was a goner and just gave up on it. then last night i looked and my marrons were swimming around a cave and lo and behold there was my Bubbletip..after over a week. it still has color. Talk about being amazed by something in my tank over and over again? Anyone ever have this sort of thing happen to you
 
I can always tell where it is becasue my Maroons always let me know,they don't stray to far from it..which is how i found it again this time..they showed me where it was! I just wish it would stop hiding in caves with little light and hard to reach to feed it
 
yeah i did a lights out for algae purposes and now i can't find my RBTA but i hope it surfaces again
corey
 
Mine did the same thing. First day I got it it started walking towards the back under a cave? Its not getting any light where it stayed and yet its happy. What's up with these guys, don't they need light?
 
one of mine is in a cave and the other is under a shelf near it..hard to feed either one..I tried squirting some oyster eggs in the directio of them both this morning.I tried feeding shrimp yesterday but my darn Engineer goby kept stealing it off the skewer and when i tried feeding by hand the big maroon kept thumping me
 
well the one outside the cave got sucked into my closed loop supply and mangled into almost nothing, so i lost one of my BTA's. and it was almost 3" across
 
not with an anemone. However, I blew my small fungia away while trying to adjust a tunze powerhead in my tank. I blew it underneath a serious rockpile in my 120 and thought it was doomed. To my amazement, it walked out from under the rockpile to a corner and has been there ever sense. I just love these reef tanks :celeb1:
 
well the other BTA hit the intake and was chewed up and spit out...I have to find a pre-filter sponge that doesn't restrict flow like the one i have
 
Any time you have anemones in your tank, you should protect any pump intakes. You learned the hard way....twice.
 
I had a prefilter on it before but it was restricting the flow severely and just collecting food, so i took it off, figured my BTA wasn't anywhere near it so it'd be alright, then it started to move! And when i split the clone was about 4 inches away. Was fine then 20 minutes later sucked in, same with the other BTA, took less than 30 minutes to move 5 inches and get sucked in
 
Lesson number two - whenever you make changes to your tank (flow, lighting, water, etc), anemones have the possibility to move.

From the sounds of it, your nem split from stress, and may not have been healthy to begin with. Stressed nems tend to move more also because they are searching for a better location.
 
sorry to hear it didnt end well.what i do when i get a new anemone is get a small piece of rock and bury the foot of the anemone in the sand next to the rock.that way the anemone can make up its mind to stay in the sand or attach itself to the rock
 
I t was doing fine until i had to take out my rocks on one side(it was attached to 2 seperate rocks and kind of got pulled a little when i took them out and one of the rocks slipped). My engineer gobies had gotten under the false bottom i put n to cover plumbing and i had to take out all my rocks to remove 3 pieces of plexiglass.My crabs and snails were falling into the holes around plumbing and then getting buried in by the gobies, and i didn't want food collectiing in the spaces they made under the glass by mving all the sand i put there out! After I put the BTA back in it moved to a cave and was never the same again
 
Gandolfe said:
I lost a BTA and about $30 and now my other BTA is on the move in the same direction
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You lost one and the other was moving in the same direction? You basically knew something was going to happen. Did you not do anything to stop it from happening?
 
it was over 5 inches away from the intake as was the other one, all I can think was it let go and got sucked in while floating, hard to think it could move 5 inches in leass than a half hour unless that's what happened,and i couldn't have stopped that anyway. And by moving that way i meant out the same side of the cave it was in
 
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