help with a RBTA.?

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Hey guys well the title says it all. I did a water change on saturday (normal nothing out of the ordinary) and since then My RBTA has been kinda drawn up. it has always had its "foot" planted on the underside of the rock kinda between two pieces but has always been extended to the side and/or top. however now it is drawn up and the tenacles are now short and more swolen than normal. no color loss and the clown is still hanging out in it but the anemone for the first time today refused to eat it's regual twice a week feeding (spit it out)?.? water quality is fine
PH-8.4
dKh-9.8
and Calcium is about 540-560 (maybe a bit high)
temp about 79
0 nitrate nitrite phosphate and ammonia
I'll try to take a pic and post it later.
I have had it about 2 months and it is a tank raised piece so I hope it isn't about to die. Any ideas?
 
Calcium needs to drop to approximately to 400-450. Everything else looks good parameter wise.

I think it may be getting ready to split. They usually exhibit this behavior before they split. If you get a clone I call dibs.
 
hope so lets see what happens. have another guy that has shown interest in one first so I will check with him if it splits. but if he is not interested then it's yours. maybe trade for some of those nice coral specimens of yours?.?
 
I've got one that's been doing that for 2-3 weeks now. It spent the first several days wondering around it's end of the tank and generally acting strange. It's finally settled down in a new location but it's still shrunk up from what it was a month or so ago.
 
IT'S ALIVE!!! LOL just came back today and even ate. Sorry Phil no split. will let you know if and when it does.
 
Pretty good site, a few things are speculation rather than fact but there is more good info there than you can find on most sites.
 
ok it's at it again. same perameters as before, but this time it appears to be eating as it is taken the food as of now...... anyone else had this type of issue this frequent?
 
Pictures would really help but my gut instinct says it may be ummmmm pooping. ;)
a few things are speculation rather than fact
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She has some good basic information but based only on her experience. That isn't a bad thing at all but nobody imo should take Karen's site as a gospel on keeping BTAs.
 
I don't directly feed mine any more. The last time I tried to feed it my tomato took the piece of shrimp out of it's mouth and tossed it over board so I just gave up on direct feeding. I just make sure that food is in it's area and the tomato brings it food.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10563104#post10563104 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by firefish2020
Umm actually I just remembered you can over feed anemones and it can kill them or so I'm told.
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Ron I've thought about this and I don't see how you could overfeed an anemone. If they don't want food they'll not except it or expel it. Maybe if you polluted the water with too much food.

fwiw with 250 MH I haven't fed in 4 years (clowns are too greedy to share too). Healthy, happy and split twice a year.
They were fed when I used pc/vho...healthy, happy split twice a year.

Chris how often does yours split?
"Back in the day" they said my type, larger than many typical BTA, were deeper water non-splitters. Maybe be some truth to that because mine split less frequently than many. Then again they stay at the top of the tank directly under a halide so I don't know about the deep water part :lol:

How' the 'nem doing now?
 
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