Is this BTA healthy?

[FishNutty]

I'd like a little feedback on the health of this anemone. I got it on the 17th of May, and it came to me extremely healthy. I thought, and it was the opinion of multiple other people, that my lighting would be enough for it.
Well, after a few days, it started stretching, then released and walked all the way up the side of the tank to the top, as close to the light as it could get and stayed there. I ordered new lights, but they've been slow arriving, and now it's walked back down into the rock again.

Photos:

When I first got it(day after)-



Stretching for the light(this continued until the last three or four days)-



Now(June 10th); still no change in lighting-


So, was it just settling in? Does it look healthy now? (Because there for a bit it certainly looked 'off'. Funds are tight, and if I don't have to upgrade the lights I don't want to, but if it needs it, I will.

Thoughts?

 

[Breadman03]

It doesn't look bad to me, but I only have about 6 months experience with 1 BTA, so I'm not an expert.

What kind of lighting do you have now?

 

[FishNutty]

It doesn't look bad to me, but I only have about 6 months experience with 1 BTA, so I'm not an expert.

What kind of lighting do you have now?

It's been under one 50/50 TrueLumen 10-inch LED strip and one actinic TrueLumen LED strip. They don't look/sound like much, but I've have good growth on my LPS and successfully kept rock flower and maxi mini anemones with them. The tank is 7.5 gallons.

 

[tatuaje08]

Looks fine to me. What makes you think there is a problem?

 

[FishNutty]

Looks fine to me. What makes you think there is a problem?

The stretching combined with the walking and climbing the glass towards the light made me wonder. I posted when it first started stretching, before it was climbing the walls, and the general consensus in that thread was that it was my lighting, and it wasn't strong enough.
However, I haven't managed to get the stronger lighting on it yet(ordered it, and it wouldn't connect to the existing adapter like the company said it would before I bought; although they made it right, it's taken time.) and it has come back down and although it's not 'squatted' completely down on the rock or bubbling like some others I've seen(I know the bubbling is subjective with each nem, not sure about foot height), it has stopped stretching, as you can see.

I just don't want to compromise its health by not providing what it needs. On the other hand, the hobby is expensive enough without buying things that I already have and the corals don't need more of.

 

[tatuaje08]

When it comes to btas, nobody know anything about them. As long as it looks healthy, don't sorry about it moving around. Also, nobody knows for sure why they stretch. Could be light and it could be flow....or it could be some other reason.

 

[skene]

The anemone is still a recent addition and he probably was unhappy where he was located. Usually once they find a place that they like they no longer move. Now there is still an exception to the rule as they will get up and leave when they want to as well.

The only certainty with a bta is uncertainty.

 

[FishNutty]

Thanks for the feedback guys!

When it comes to btas, nobody know anything about them. As long as it looks healthy, don't sorry about it moving around. Also, nobody knows for sure why they stretch. Could be light and it could be flow....or it could be some other reason.

Gotcha.

The anemone is still a recent addition and he probably was unhappy where he was located. Usually once they find a place that they like they no longer move. Now there is still an exception to the rule as they will get up and leave when they want to as well.

The only certainty with a bta is uncertainty.

I assumed when I brought it home that it would wander the tank (and purposefully waited until after a trip for just that reason so I could make sure it didn't decide to sit on top of something I really liked). This just threw me because it *seemed* highly motivated by light. Then it settled, but still wasn't quite as nice as when I first got it. It could, of course, have been any number of other things also.
I finally got the adapter in for the light, so I threw the new LED strip on just to see what it would do for a week. This is the 24-hour difference-


Side by side, because I wanted to see, and also with the FTS from yesterday and today(Yesterday is left, today is right). Sorry about the quality, the collage app seems to have wreaked photo quality for some reason-

 

[mikeyVR4]

The BTA will shrink and expand like a sponge as it soaks in water then deflates when it rids itself of feces. Have you ever seen it poop? Yeah it looks dead as the BTA's mouth opens wide and green slime oozes out of its mouth.

 

[FishNutty]

The BTA will shrink and expand like a sponge as it soaks in water then deflates when it rids itself of feces. Have you ever seen it poop? Yeah it looks dead as the BTA's mouth opens wide and green slime oozes out of its mouth.

Good point. I've seen other nems do it, so I know what it looks like, but not this one; could have just missed it though.

 

[hobogato]

looks great to me

 

[shifty51008]

To me it looks like it is bleached a little bit