Is it easy to mistake a stressed ritteri for a bta?
I run carbon and weekly pwc. The water movement is actually pretty good ~45x total turnover and the lta's are so small I don't worry about it- one is 3'' fully expanded, the other is <.75'' fully expanded and a p.i.t.a. to keep from blowing away.
Hopefully it's just a purple bta... The tentacles are blunt and have solid white tips (like it was dipped in white paint) and the tentacles/oral disc are purplish/brown. The base is a pink color and there are no visible verrucae. The area between where the tentacles start and the verracue should be is smooth (idk if this helps but it does look different when comparing it to the gbta). Now it's postioned halfway in the tank (20 gallon w/ 130watt pc) underneath a flat rock stretching out (it's attached upside down then turns sideways for the light).
I was thinking if it where a ritteri it would seek out the highest point since my rocks go up to about 3'' underneath the surface of the water it could be directly underneath the surface of the water in the light if it wanted to. It hasn't moved (maybe an inch or two) from the place I originally put it a little more then two months ago. It has colored up nicely, it was bleached when I got it but when I saw it I new it would be better off with me then slowly dying at the lfs.
I feed it every 2-3 days a whole silverside. It started off not eating when I got it but now it takes it just as fast as my gbta. In about 10-15 seconds the silverside is completely gone.
Yesterday I took out half the rocks in my tank to find the little half inch lta I have and I had to take the nem out of the tank. I noticed when it was in the bucket and when I put it back in the tank it bulged up and looked like a big egg. From googling ritteri images it looks exactly like some of the pictures, looks like a big pink egg with tentacles coming out of the top.
And the first day I put it in the tank my Ocellaris started hosting it but I don't know if they where doing it just because it was another nem (they have been hosting the gbta) or because it is their natural host. They go back and forth now but the female seems to stay in there most of the time and the male goes between the two nems.
I can't get a pic because I don't have a camera.
I run carbon and weekly pwc. The water movement is actually pretty good ~45x total turnover and the lta's are so small I don't worry about it- one is 3'' fully expanded, the other is <.75'' fully expanded and a p.i.t.a. to keep from blowing away.
Hopefully it's just a purple bta... The tentacles are blunt and have solid white tips (like it was dipped in white paint) and the tentacles/oral disc are purplish/brown. The base is a pink color and there are no visible verrucae. The area between where the tentacles start and the verracue should be is smooth (idk if this helps but it does look different when comparing it to the gbta). Now it's postioned halfway in the tank (20 gallon w/ 130watt pc) underneath a flat rock stretching out (it's attached upside down then turns sideways for the light).
I was thinking if it where a ritteri it would seek out the highest point since my rocks go up to about 3'' underneath the surface of the water it could be directly underneath the surface of the water in the light if it wanted to. It hasn't moved (maybe an inch or two) from the place I originally put it a little more then two months ago. It has colored up nicely, it was bleached when I got it but when I saw it I new it would be better off with me then slowly dying at the lfs.
I feed it every 2-3 days a whole silverside. It started off not eating when I got it but now it takes it just as fast as my gbta. In about 10-15 seconds the silverside is completely gone.
Yesterday I took out half the rocks in my tank to find the little half inch lta I have and I had to take the nem out of the tank. I noticed when it was in the bucket and when I put it back in the tank it bulged up and looked like a big egg. From googling ritteri images it looks exactly like some of the pictures, looks like a big pink egg with tentacles coming out of the top.
And the first day I put it in the tank my Ocellaris started hosting it but I don't know if they where doing it just because it was another nem (they have been hosting the gbta) or because it is their natural host. They go back and forth now but the female seems to stay in there most of the time and the male goes between the two nems.
I can't get a pic because I don't have a camera.
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