bubble tip tug of war - round 2

[shanesreef]

When I first introduced my large green bta appr. 1 month ago, I dimmed my leds and slowly acclimated the anemone to my normal lighting in the tank. I left the blue leds on through the nights to keep the bta from roaming. The first morning after reducing lights to a moonlight setting, I woke up to find the anemone with tentacles exposed from two holes in the live rock. At first I thought it had split from stress, but it had not. I cut a piece of the live rock away and the entire bta exposed itself. And, I went back to leaving blues on 1/2 of the day setting at night.

Last night after a month of slowly dimming the blues at night, I turned lights to moonlight. And, awoke again to finding the bta with tentacle coming out of 2 holes in the live rock. Neither side has near half of the normal 14 inch diameter amount of surface exposed.

Have any of you experienced this? If so will one side eventually win? will it split or what?

thanks- shane

BTW- 120g tank . All water parameters are good, lps, softies and carpet nem. all good. And what I can see of the bta is healthy.

 

[sjwitt]

My anemones do lots of weird things to get their foot into a secure hole. Once secure they stretch out into the light and open up. Some days they don't come out at all and others they're so big it's ridiculous.

 

[tatuaje08]

Splits usually happen pretty quickly. Is there a reason why you think its splitting? Doesn't sound like it to me.

 

[shanesreef]

I don't think it is necessarily spitting, Just concerned about so much of the anemone being buried in the stone. only about 1/2 of tentacles exposed. I have not dealt much with bta. I have kept carpets for years and used to them digging in sand bed and staying put.

 

[tatuaje08]

Yeah btas are just weird. What they do makes no sense. Best bet is to just leave it be.

 

[sjwitt]

^+1

 

[shanesreef]

thanks, for your replies, I will leave it be and see what happens. I am sure the anemone will come back out on its own. Just a little worried, it a very pretty anemone.