Kelvin for a RBTA

[amaya]

whats your parameters?

 

[orcafood]

Look at the first post ^

 

[livingcorals]

I did talk about the issue with a LFS and they did say might be fry'n the guy if its that close but question is, how hi up do you have the light from the water?

 

[orcafood]

The lights are about 5 in off the water.

Just asking but if he isn't happy wouldn't he just move himself?

 

[livingcorals]

Most of the time but then again, "people just don't always think when they drive"


Should normally have it about 12-14" from the water for Halides or so I was told but I have PC's.

 

[orcafood]

I know, but I can't put the halides up any higher.

The anemone does look slightly better now that I fed it half a silver side. The tentacles are still very small. Geeze what the heck?

 

[livingcorals]

Sometimes it can be a lighting issue with the tentacles but it can take time to pick itself up in health again.
Sometimes I'll see mine spit up some of the silverside. Which it still eats but just sometimes. So i'll just take that and feed it to my acan lord, hammer coral or open brain.
Helps out.

I will switch between the silverside with krill, and mysis shrimp. Plus the target light feed with ZooPlex by Kent.

I must say since I started using the ZooPlexthe BTAs are responding nice to it.

 

[orcafood]

how often do you feed zooplex, and how often for silversides/Krill?

 

[livingcorals]

3 times a week with the silverside and twice with the krill or the mysis shrimp.
The zooplex ever other day.
I'm really seeing a difference here in the last week tho. So I do stand by the zooplex.

 

[orcafood]

Well I got two new 14,000K Ushio bulbs and the anemone has started to climb up the rock work toward the light. He still has the stubby tentacles though.

 

[livingcorals]

I was talking to this guy at the store about BTA's and he was saying the stubby tentacles is just not enough light or just a really sick BTA that is on its way out the door....
...Still eating right?

 

[orcafood]

yea it eats a honkin 1/2 silver side or krill every other day.
actually I think his tentacles are getting bigger by a little

 

[livingcorals]

Should be ok.. Give it time

 

[Jamie1210]

I'm tagging along bc I have the same situation. My parameters should be perfect--I'm saying perfect bc I have a 25 gallon tank w/150 watts of 14K light thats composed of ONLY btas. While all others are thriving, one became bleached and its tentacles turned out to be stubby like yours. So ... I really don't know what's going on . My guess is that some BTAs are just hardier than others, and it probably just got "sick" somehow.

Still, though, I'm continuing feeding everyother day. I am alernating between fresh clams (that I actually juts froze myself) and silversides. I don't know if this is "force" feeding or what, but since its tentacles aren't able to hold onto its food, I gently place the food on its mouth until its mouth starts to go around it and eats on its own.

I guess we'll keep each other posted on what happens...

 

[orcafood]

Yea, that sounds exactly like mine. I recently added the new 14,000K (I had 10,000K) metal halides and the anemone has spread out his base a ton. Now he looks like a drink coaster with nubs that seem to be growing each day. I feed half a silver side and a krill alternating every other day.

 

[Jamie1210]

too lazy to scroll up and read all the comments but do you have clowns hosting in it? maybe they're stressing it out?

 

[livingcorals]

Hey Jamie1210, whats the size of the bta as with the clowns?

 

[Jamie1210]

Hey Jamie1210, whats the size of the bta as with the clowns?

this particular RBTA is smaller about the same size as the clowns; however, the clowns pretty much leave it alone bc they're too busy snuggling in the other, bigger anemones So I know that in my case, the problem can't be clowns harassing it.

 

[crpeck]

I've had very good luck feeding my RBTA Formula One cubes made by Ocean Nutrition and also their "Special Formula VHP" (very hight protein)

I used to use silversides and still do as an alternate. But if he wouldn't eat, I hated the silversides blowing off and wasting in the tank. If he doesn't take the Formula One cubes (which is rare), at least all the other fish and critters in the tank will eat it right up.

 

[eeorrandy]

Orcafood, keep up the feeding regimen, smaller sizes.. about the size of a pea are best in this case, silversides are fine, but use only about a quarter of one at a time, they will digest more and spit less back. in the wild they eat small food particles very frequently, not large pieces occasionally. Sometimes anemones being fed large food pieces will starve even though they are taking in food, it gets spit out before adequate digestion. This can take weeks or months and be very slow. Small stubby tentacles are a sign of starvation, not light deprivation. The variety of foods is best.. including formula 1. cyclopeeze, shrimp, squid, mysis, scallop etc. It can take a while, but it sounds like you are on the right track, be patient.

Jamie, do you run carbon?. Multiple anemones will chemically (Allepathy) compete in a closed aquarium. This can result in poor health or death of one or more anemones. carbon helps, but most often it's best not to have more than one non-clone in a tank. (Clones don't usually fight one another)

Hope this helps
Randy