Feeding BTA that isn't sticky...

[Reefer421]

I just bought a RBTA from the LFS on Friday. He is beautiful and seemed to be a very healthy specimen. I bought my first RBTA from them about 3-4 months back and it has done really well, so I went back for the second one.

The problem is, I tried to feed it yesterday and today and the tenticles are not sticky...at all. I tried feeding it krill...what the other one eats all the time. It just retracted it's tenticles.

Is this because it does not like krill? What can I do to feed it if the tenticles are not sticking to the food?

I really hope I can get it to eat. It is such a beautiful specimen.

 

[55semireef]

Try feeding it in a couple of days. Anemones will be sticky when they are hungry. If it doesn't within the next 5 days or so, let us know.

 

[sarahkucera]

I just got a RBTA from a fellow reefer near me and he didn't really have an interest in food for the first week or so.
I offered him silversides, which he had never seen before, and the first few times he tried to wrap his tentacles around them but couldn't get them to stick and lost interest quickly.
About a week after moving into the new tank he took his first silverside and just chowed down on it within 30 seconds.
I guess that he was just getting nice and comfortable before he got sticky enough to eat his dinner.
I haven't tried krill.