LTA out of control

[ryancaudill]

I started with 2 LTA's about 2 years ago. They have split multiple times and now I have 10 from what I can count. One split just last week. From what I have read mine dont seem to follow LTA's typical behavior. Mine like rocks (not sand) and they obviously like light since they have moved up this large piece of Tonga that covers my overflow. I hardly ever feed them. I have a 90g with 2X150MH's and 2X96 PC's. They are taking over 1/2 of my tank. If you look closely at one of the pictures you can see one is actually attached to the back side of a piece of monopora. I recently had to move the rock off towards the front of the tank because one nearly killed a different piece of monopora and another would get sucked into my seio about every other week. I would love to keep one and sell off the rest but I cant get their feet to release. They drive me crazy but my tomato clown obviously like them all.

 

[wicked_NaCl_h2o]

Those look like btas but without the bulb tips.

 

[ryancaudill]

Maybe they are. I never really knew what kind they were. I was just going off what someone told me.

 

[reefman13]

Those are BTA's with out a doubt. Almost no similarities in behavior to an LTA, and they just look like a large group of tan BTA's.

In regards to getting them to let go, I would point a PH at them and then once they start moving, get a CC and try to GENTLY scrape the foot off the rock.

 

[Joshua1023]

I think that the fact that they are attached to the rock indicates that they are bta's as I don't think that LTA's are capapble of attaching to a chunk of rock.

 

[Slakker]

They are certainly capable of attaching to just about anything, but LTA's are indeed sand dwellers (assuming M. Doreensis) and would likely starve themselves of light for quite some time before choosing to settle in on the rockwork. Those, however, are BTA's.

 

[Titus77]

Looks like a sea apple to me, the one in the bottom right corner, under the big one.

 

[seafansar]

I'm pretty sure that's the tomato clown.

 

[Aquarium newbie]

Your lucky. How could you say it drives you nuts? That's one dramatic center piece. ??????????????????????///

 

[ryancaudill]

That is my man eating tomato clown. Thanks for clearing up my anemone ignorance. They drive me nuts because they contantly split and are crowding out my corals. Dont get me wrong, I do enjoy them. I just dont want a tank full of them. One to two big ones would be perfect.