GBTA recovery

[NanoReefWanabe]

how long does it take for a GBTA to regain its stickiness? now that he is in more favourable conditions then before...(was held in a refuge)

i have him on the sand on a nice rock where he seems quite happy, in the corner of my tank where he is getting pretty irradic and chaotic flow from both my koralias crashing etc...getting a good blast of MH too..and my parameters are pretty much bang on...sg 1.026, ph 8.1, cal 440, alk 9dkh, mag 1600, trates < 10, ammon/trites/PO4 undectable, temp 78-82*

he has inflated quite nicely since acclimation and is swaying really nice as well..however has no stick or food reaction...i have tried to feed him...(likely too soon since addition, only been a day) and the food just floats away, if i sit there and hold it for him he will start to swell around it...then i leave and my stupid gutsy 6line will steal it...

his colour is beautiful, kinda a purpleish brown base with a creepy, very iridescent green glow to him...

any reassurances would be great...thanx in advance..

here are a couple pics i just took...i force fed him about an hour ago...well not force fed but i held it there and gaurded him long enough to eat it...so he is pretty inflated right now...earlier had fairly nice bubbles on one side anyway...

flash:

no flash just crappy 10000k and 420 24W Pc bulbs...the halides just shut off for a hour...will post halide pic later..glass is a bit dirty, but i didnt want to scare him by cleaning it...you can see that even with the shutter at 1/60th he is flappin around pretty good...

 

[a4twenty]

your doing it right, you'll need to guard him while he eats for a while ( week or so ) and it looks like he hasn't eaten in a while.

was he a fresh clone??

his colour looks ok, i suggest feeding him a little bit everyday or two for now until he recovers. ( as long as he is eating it )

 

[NanoReefWanabe]

excellent now i have another concern...

some of his tentacles have twisted around on themselves a couple times over...looks like the power heads are trying to tie him into balloon animals...is this a concern?

will the tentacles pinch off?

they are still inflated will they untie themselves?

 

[NanoReefWanabe]

here is a pic under MH...and you can also see where the tentacles are getting twisted up too...

 

[a4twenty]

i think they are just pudgy , as the anemone inflates and deflates the tentacles can take on very odd shapes from fat and pudgy to long and skinny and everything in between.

 

[NanoReefWanabe]

i mean they are twisting right at the oral disk...i untwisted a couple of them that had spun around about 5 times...

 

[a4twenty]

sorry couldn't see that, he should be able to undo anything he has done. i have never heard of them twisting off their own tentacles.

 

[jmadison]

i have had them twist off on a gbta b4. i also tried to stop but it was always happening so i let it go, a few were lost, but seemed enevitable with where it was at in the flow/light.

 

[NanoReefWanabe]

hehe i just upgraded my K2 to K3 and the flow difference is huge...i hope the GTBA likes it...soon i will be changing out my K1 for the broken K2 i just took out...then i will have almost 60X turnover in my tank...hehehhe