My BTA disappeared into the rock. How concerned should I be?

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I'm looking for insight on this behavior.
I aquired a RBTA from a fellow reefer with an established tank. This was a split of his from several months earlier. I acclimated it to my tank about a week and a half ago in a low light area of my tank. It quickly attached itself and fully inflated. About a day later it climbed up to a medium light area where my softies thrive. It is also near where I feed so the softies get a lot of access to food in the water column. It found a nice perch and for a few days it hung out in that general area, stayed fully inflated and ate bits of frozen mysis, cyclops eze and Rod's food that it would catch during feeding time. It was near a hammer coral but looks like it didn't get close enough for either to notice the other.
A couple of days ago, I went to check on the tank and I noticed the anemone had moved a across a rock with mushrooms, zoanthids and toadstools (not bothering any of them) and was heading downward into the rockwork, still inflated and normal looking. Later on that night it looked to have fully hidden itself in the dense, dark rockwork and I have not seen it in a few days now.

Assuming my tank parameters ar good, how concerned should I be with this behavior?
I'm hoping that between the changes from moving to a new tank and possibly the availability of some new food, it might be hiding and splitting. I've been keeping an eye on my ORP from my Android app for any signs of a downward change but it has been looking good the whole time so I'm pretty sure it hasn't melted.

 

[Sugar Magnolia]

More than likely it will reappear on it's own, looking for light. To encourage it to move, you can place a powerhead aiming it directly at it. The increased flow bothers them and it will move away from the direct flow.

 

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Ah, ha! I noticed red anemone tentacles poking out from beneath the rock and sticking up between the mushrooms. It looks like he may be making an appearance soon. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

 

[e46slc]

Just give him time, he'll come out looking for light sooner or later. Beware that he'll move around the tank until he finds a spot he likes so you'll have to try to move your other corals out of the way until he finds it.

 

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He's still being reclusive but looks like he's finally going to give iit a try. This is the most he's been out since hiding in the rocks.

 

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Well as of last week, he seems to be hanging out in one spot and staying out during the day. I think he might have needed more light acclimation than I originally thought. The previous owner had it under the same wattage halide with the same reflector. His was under 2x20k bulbs and mine is 1x14k bulb with blue LED supplimentation but I think it needed to get used to the increased par up in the white spectrum. Does this make sense to those with a lot of BTA experience?
I noticed a similar thing with a maxima I got from him at the same time. The maxima just seemed to acclimate faster.
Oh, and of course what happens as I'm admiring the BTA really hanging out for the first time? My female oscelaris dives right in and looks to be in hog heaven. This is one of a pair that I have been trying to get to host in anything and everything for the last 5+ years. Anemone seems unaffected so far but let's hope she doesn't annoy it too much.

 

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Sorry about the size of the pictures. I'm doing this from my phone and have limited editing capabilities.

 

[cet98]

personally, I still don't think it looks that good...If need be, I'll sacrifice my time and drive to OH and pick it up from you so we can see if it looks any better in "my tank"....
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give it some thought, no rush.....(hurry, I can be there this evening if I leave now!!!) :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :rollface:
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seriously, nice nem :thumbsup:

 

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Here's a quick update if anyone cares. The anemone did a little more moving and hiding before disappearing for a few days. Then I saw him finally start to come back out on one side of the rocks. A little later he started poking out on the far side of the rocks. What the...? He split. Both anemones came out with the damage already healing nicely. Both halves have settled into spots now and have been staying put and are open and seem very happy. It seems like the stress from the move is now over. Both still have the same rose tentacles and teal stalk. I'm not sure if the coloration is seen as desireable or as inferior, but I sure love the way they look.
One other strange thing. Both anemones have had a lot of contact with several corals in the tank from mushrooms to sps with no ill affects so far. I even found a frag of mont cap had fallen into one of the anemones recently and had been sitting under and within its tentacles for about a week. I pulled it out and although it lost a little color from a lack of light, it is showing no other signs of stress. I always heard of anemones wreaking havoc in tanks when contacting corals.

 

[demonnite57]

Good to hear that the Nem's are doing good =) Always a type of scare when they disappear and you don't see them for awhile!

 

[Supernova26]

That nem looks awesome. If you want to sell one of them I will take it.

 

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I'll try to get an updated pic.
I'm not looking to sell any right now. Thank you, though.