Hows my nem look?

[okkiedokki]

I got a GBTA yesterday and acclimated him very slow (almost 4 hours). How does he/she look? How do I know when it wants to eat, the guy I bought it from said he feeds his krill 3 times a week to encourage splitting but I'm thinking I'll just feed it once a week with the rest of my corals.

It didn't move much at all when I placed it in the tank, however, I tried placing it directly under one of the MH bulbs. It decided to move in between the rocks you see it at below, just under a small overhang. I don't have enough flow right now but I'm going to buy two Koralia's and place them on opposite sides of the tank to increase the flow.

FTS....

 

[RickGemme]

looks fine to me, the anen will move wherever it feels it wants to in order to find the correct lighting/flow/food supply... mine moved a ton at first and finally all 3 have found spots they enjoy being in. Thankfully they all picked great viewing spots

 

[fatdaddy]

Looks happy to me. A nem will do fine on one meal a week, but will grow faster with more food.

Is that a clown in the flower pot? Has it found the nem yet?

 

[okkiedokki]

That flower pot has been in the tank for 2 years and 4 months now. Rather, it was in my 24g NC for 2 years then transfered to this new tank with everything else. The two clowns love their flower pot and I didn't really get the nem for the clowns, it just had a really good price and I knew my system would be really good for it. If the clowns host to it I'll be thrilled, but if not I'm won't be upset.

The clowns haven't discovered it yet, but the cleaner shrimp has. It was picking at it a bit and looked like it was getting stung in the process last night.

So how do i feed it, just thaw some krill and place it on its mouth and hope it takes it?

 

[GreenPuffers]

looks very nice. if its healthy it should just grab the piece of food from you. GOOD LUCK, nice nem!!

 

[Aaarrrggg]

Looking good!
Make sure you don't put any food directly in its mouth, it can harm it. Offer it to the tenticles and it should move it to it's mouth. When you get your new powerheads make sure you cover the intakes so the lil guy doesn't get stucked in.

Check out http://www.karensroseanemones.com/ for more info on looking after BTAs...excellent site.

 

[okkiedokki]

Thanks. I'll give it more time to get acclimated to my tank and maybe feed it this weekend. Hopefully my clowns discover it soon and start feeding it for me.

 

[okkiedokki]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10161336#post10161336 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Aaarrrggg


Check out http://www.karensroseanemones.com/ for more info on looking after BTAs...excellent site.

Wow, nice web site, I looked through some sections and I can tell I'll be needing a lot more time to go through the site in it's entirety.