need help on rbta
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Also, how old are your lights? I'm not possitive, but I'm assuming that these lights go bad with age, just like others. You still get light, but the useful stuff that makes them effective diminishes over time.
What color was it when you got it.
The mouth can be helpful in determining if the nem is stressed, but they also look pretty bad when they're expelling waste. I would keep an eye on it to make sure. If it is expelling waste it will look better shortly.
Have you checked your water parameters?
Good luck!
What color was it when you got it.
The mouth can be helpful in determining if the nem is stressed, but they also look pretty bad when they're expelling waste. I would keep an eye on it to make sure. If it is expelling waste it will look better shortly.
Have you checked your water parameters?
Good luck!
my water parameter are good
the light just been use for 2 months
my eating silverside and squid and oyster once every 2 day
my had been in my tank for 6 months now, the color when I got it is much better
The problem is my rbta alway hiding under the rock, when I flip the rock to make it expose to light, next day it go hiding again
light is not a problem the problem is it alway hiding from the light, how do I fix that???
the light just been use for 2 months
my eating silverside and squid and oyster once every 2 day
my had been in my tank for 6 months now, the color when I got it is much better
The problem is my rbta alway hiding under the rock, when I flip the rock to make it expose to light, next day it go hiding again
light is not a problem the problem is it alway hiding from the light, how do I fix that???
I think sometimes btas will hide from lighting that is too intense for them, I'm guessing that's one of the reasons RokleM asked what wattage and bulbs you had and what size tank you had it over. You've got two tank sizes listed and knowing which one the nem is in would be helpful too.
RokleM
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No offense, but I'm trying to understand this. I can't hardly tell what you're trying to say. I'll try to translate...
Example? Many people who think they are good are quite a bit off. What are you using to test? What brand?
2 month old light, should be good. What bulbs?
Try Mysis and soaking your food in Selcon, VitaChem, and other boosters as well. The color is not one of a healthy anemone (should be dead quite a while ago actually) and appears to not be eating. Do you see it EAT the food and "poop" out digested material? Does it expel it later undigested?
No clue what this means. Can't tell if it's better or worse. It can't really be worse, because it has NO color now, so I assume it's "much worse". This is a sign something is terribly wrong with your system or setup.
That in itself shows a major issue. Your anemone is going to move where it feels comfortable, and you are stressing it greatly moving it. It will come out when it's ready.
I'm not familiar with this size, but I think this is one of your biggest issues. What are the dimensions of your tank? BTA's have pretty decent lighting requirement, and RBTA's seem a bit higher. I would have a minimum of 4x 39w with individual reflectors (non HO). You're probably cooking it with two super bright lights that are not creating a good spread throughout the 55 like 4x 39 non HO would.
redvipe2010
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Are you sure this thing is eating? Looks to be starving, not sure how it could even hold onto food. How do you give it food?
redvipe2010
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I'll send you a PM, don't want to hijack the thread.
RokleM
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Have no fear, as the question was just asked.
Yes, you can be overfeeding. Discussed recently is the situation of "gut rot". Basically, you feed the anemone too much, it doesn't digest it, and in turn starts decomposing/rotting inside the anemone itself. I squirt about 15-20 mysis at my 10+ inch base anemone, and I feel that pushes it a little bit. That's the equivalent of maybe 1/2" or so of a silverside. Try giving it 1/4" or so pieces, and NEVER force it into it's mouth. 1 1/2" silversides are WAAAAAYYYY to much for that small anemone.
That being said, your anemone still looks like it's drastically starved.
Is it possible that the nem spits the food out later, when you're not around?
Our crispa has been known to take in food, and sometime during the night spit out what it doesn't want/need. If your clean up crew can get to the spit out food it's sometimes hard to tell it was even there. Definately try smaller pieces of food right now while it's stressed, and see if that makes any difference. Smaller foods are easier for them to digest, large meals add more stressed, and that's not good for a nem that's already stressed.
Our crispa has been known to take in food, and sometime during the night spit out what it doesn't want/need. If your clean up crew can get to the spit out food it's sometimes hard to tell it was even there. Definately try smaller pieces of food right now while it's stressed, and see if that makes any difference. Smaller foods are easier for them to digest, large meals add more stressed, and that's not good for a nem that's already stressed.
Shawnts106
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GAH I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE SAY THAT!!!!!
no offence.. just agrivates the $#*% out of me.
sarahkucera
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If I am reading this right you have a 55 gallon tank. So it's at least 20 inches deep of a tank.
Having 2 x 39 T5 HO's above a tank that size and depth are definitely not giving your nem enough light, especally if you have measurements of 48wide X 13 deep X 20 tall and you only have a 36 inch wide lighting rig offering your tank 78 watts of total light.
If that's the only lighting you have over the tank, it's no wonder that your nem is dying. What is amazing is that the nem lasted 6 months in your tank.
redvipe2010
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Doing some research today came across a picture and went, WOW, I've seen something like that really recently. So anyone who has Clownfishes, By Joyce D. Wilkerson, turn to page 37.
I'm sort of 50/50 on the identification on this anemone, although at first I agreed it was a BTA, and it still could be. The pics in this post are not as clear as in Joyce's book, but lets not rule out the possibility.
Whats your thoughts.
I'm sort of 50/50 on the identification on this anemone, although at first I agreed it was a BTA, and it still could be. The pics in this post are not as clear as in Joyce's book, but lets not rule out the possibility.
Whats your thoughts.
ADVRESOURCE
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I have two RBTA. One is perfectly happy with long tentacles in around the same location as one that looks like yours that has hidden behind some lr. The one that's happy had hidden behind some rock some time ago but, came out from the rock and is now located low in my 240 reef.
Make sure your water is at least 8.1 ph. Salinity should be around 1.023.
I just feed the tank flake and mysis. Whatever floats the rbta way is what it gets.
Make sure your water is at least 8.1 ph. Salinity should be around 1.023.
I just feed the tank flake and mysis. Whatever floats the rbta way is what it gets.
