I am worried about my BTA. It has been doing real well, but today I came back and it was closed up and some of the tenticles are hanging out. The tenticles are still very colorfull and isn't looking pale at all. My temp is at 80 and all my levels are 0 beside my nitrates at 3 ppm. Is it eating something? Is it to much light. I have my lights on for 12 hours a day. I have 6 watts a gallon acintic. Is it dying?????? Help me please...
Is my BTA dying
- Thread starter gkimble
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3 ppm is really good. Not many people can keep theirs below 10. Buble tips don't require as much as most anemones. Anemones don't require to much lighting as long as you feed them....In strongly lit aquariums you can get away with out feeding them and they can rely on photsynthesis. But yes I can not do that. I do not have enogh light to get away without feeding them.
Random Aquarist
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That's wrong. You need proper lighting no matter what. You must feed your anemone no matter what. They can only depend on food for energy for so long. If you have improper lighting, even if you feed them a lot, they will eventually die.
If you don't upgrade very soon, as in days, it will die. It can't live off of food for 3 months.
zoomfish1
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It's almost like he's trying to talk himself (gkimble) into being right.
Anemones need pristine water and quality food and intense light to thrive. They live for a while without 1 or 2 of the above, but not thrive. Is that fair to the nem? Not IMO.
Yes, nems can survive in a 12g nano as long as weekly or twice-weekly water changes are religiously performed. If your bulbs are fairly new and you perform water changes as above and feed 2 to 3 times a week, it _may_ survive till your upgrade. I hope so.
Anemones need pristine water and quality food and intense light to thrive. They live for a while without 1 or 2 of the above, but not thrive. Is that fair to the nem? Not IMO.
Yes, nems can survive in a 12g nano as long as weekly or twice-weekly water changes are religiously performed. If your bulbs are fairly new and you perform water changes as above and feed 2 to 3 times a week, it _may_ survive till your upgrade. I hope so.
Dude you can stop judging me.. The nem is fine. I know what I am doing as far as parameters go here. I know I am asking a newb question, that just because I have never seen it do that before. I have had it for a week know and it is doing great. Yes I gong to get a better lighting system. And I would like to see 0 ppm nitrates. That is very hard. I would like you to speak up if you have 0 nitrates so I can call you a liar>>>>>>>>> I am going for a 40 breeder and will be all good. So please stop trying to bicker. This is just a simple question that needs some direction.
Random Aquarist
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Well, to answer your question, your anemone is dying. Also, it's not like we don't know what we're talking about. What makes you so sure that you're right and everyone else is wrong? You need to have the right conditions before you buy an anemone.
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We need to see this.
candlebizlover
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I had a BTA in a 10 gallon with a single 30watt CL 50/50. It was bleached when I got it. It would close up for 2-3 days at a time. There was many times I was going to take it out, thinking it was dead. It actually started to recover in the 3 months it was in this tank with low lights. When I added Nova T5's to the cycling 30 gallon, the BTA started moving towards the new tank. When I moved the anemone to the 30, it curled up under a cove, stayed there for a week before it slowly started coming out. 3 months later, my anemone is a completely different creature! It was my experience that when the anemone was under low lights, it was surviving, and when it was put under high lighting, it started to flourish.
2 months in the 10gc:
3 months in the 30gc:
2 months in the 10gc:
3 months in the 30gc:
I will get a picture of the anemone. Also My anemone is doing fine. It is opened up and very colorfull. Why can't you just accept that this is going to work out? I will get a pic of the AP 12 sometime tommorow. The anemone in there is very happy and has split twice. I just got back from teh store and the guy sasy it is one of the best rose buble tip he has ever seen. It is great shape.
Random Aquarist
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Why don't BTAs just live in dark caves?
zoomfish1
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Now to be rude. None of us know anything about anything. That "dude" must not be over 16 or 17 yrs old. I def know he knows a he** of a lot more than me or anyone else trying to help.
Guess I will take my anemone back to our dark lil cave and cover my head up with fish p**p till I get smarter so I can quit giving honest answers. Dude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Guess I will take my anemone back to our dark lil cave and cover my head up with fish p**p till I get smarter so I can quit giving honest answers. Dude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Random Aquarist
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I agree.
I've already started.
