New RBTA

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mhosts

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Just got a great looking RBTA from the LFS. It was brought in from a local reefer who had a few of them from splitting.

This is a shot 10 mins after going in the tank.

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thats a beauty :) Got your bubble tips, your speckles, your magenta base, and home grown .. it has it all baby!
 
tufacody said:
thats a beauty :) Got your bubble tips, your speckles, your magenta base, and home grown .. it has it all baby!
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Thanks! and since a fellow reefer traded it in, I paid a fraction of the price that they go for around here. :bounce3:
 
I must admit, I am a little worried of it wandering around the tank... I put the foam cover over my vortech for the night as a precaution and fed it some raw black tiger shrimp to make it like it's spot as much as possible..

I'm just dreading the fact that it may be somewhere completely opposite to where I put him in the morning...
 
It's pretty normal for them to wander around until they find a comfy spot. Not long ago I did some rescaping and flow adjustment and mine went wandering for three weeks until it finally settled down.
 
Sugar Magnolia said:
It's pretty normal for them to wander around until they find a comfy spot. Not long ago I did some rescaping and flow adjustment and mine went wandering for three weeks until it finally settled down.
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Have you ever had any experiences with them actually moving rockwork or fighting with any corals while they move?

I'm cool with it moving I just don't want it to wedge any rocks around or kill any corals.

This morning it actually moved about 2 feet to the right and a foot up.
 
I would expect it to move. I got lucky and by GBTA found a great spot right near where I put it and it has stayed put ever since. It is sticking out vertically from a rock, and I (and I think my clown) would have preferred that it sit horizontally, but it is a creature and there is really nothing you can do about it!

But it sounds like you are trying different things (lighting, flow) to make it happy where it is - good luck!
 
Aaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnndddd........

of course. It needs to settle in the back of the rockwork :sad1:

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One other thing... I bought this nem purely on it's looks and will not be dissapointed if my clowns don't host it.

I have 2 pink skunk clownfish and one ocellaris clown in my tank.

Any chances that either species will host in it?

The ocellaris is definitely tank bread. Not so sure about the skunks.

The 2 skunks aren't a mated pair yet (They don't sleep together at night and still chase each other around when feeding time comes).
 
Woke up this morning and it was at the complete opposite side of the tank wedged in between two rocks...

I think I'm gonna just let it settle in for a few days and stop moving.

It's just annoying because it keeps moving to parts of the tank with very little light.
 
Here's an updated pic of the RBTA.

We've decided to name it Waldo because every morning it's moved somewhere.

This latest position is wedged between two rocks about a foot away from a vortech pump (Foam added for now just incase).

Anyone else have any experience with how long they move for or what conditions it likes so that I can place it and have it not move too much?

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It is a beauty. Looks really healthy. It is probably adjusting to the lights. That is why it stays in darker spots some of the time. Eventually it will find a nice spot and stay there. A moving anemone is an unhappy anemone. At this point, it is probably just trying to find the right spot. Mine was bleached when I got it, it stayed in the same spot for a couple months until it recovered. It moved a little higher after the 3 month mark (but not far from the original spot).

It looks like it is stretching out more which is a good sign. Nice pics by the way.
 
I have very limited experience with BTA, as i just got mine about 2 weeks ago, so i'm no expert, but from my experience with this one, he seems to be highly preferential to a spot where he's directly in the inflow to the filter, and as close to is as possible, with his disc oriented against the flow. By the sound of it, yours appears to have found a similar spot in your tank. Just make sure that you have that filter/pump intake very well blocked off.
Nice lookin nem!
 
Mavrk said:
It is a beauty. Looks really healthy. It is probably adjusting to the lights. That is why it stays in darker spots some of the time. Eventually it will find a nice spot and stay there. A moving anemone is an unhappy anemone. At this point, it is probably just trying to find the right spot. Mine was bleached when I got it, it stayed in the same spot for a couple months until it recovered. It moved a little higher after the 3 month mark (but not far from the original spot).

It looks like it is stretching out more which is a good sign. Nice pics by the way.
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Thanks for the tips! I'm definitely not going to get worried until I start to see it loosing colour or hiding for over a week.

It has started to come out slowly over the last two days.

The first night it moved a foot.
Second night it moved over 5 feet from corner to corner.
The last few nights it hasn't moved more than a foot and is settling in I think.

It just so happens to be in between the return pump pipe, an MJ1200 and my Vortech :( I'm going to be leaving the foam on the vortech because it's only about 3 inches from the closest tenticle right now.
 
wogga said:
I have very limited experience with BTA, as i just got mine about 2 weeks ago, so i'm no expert, but from my experience with this one, he seems to be highly preferential to a spot where he's directly in the inflow to the filter, and as close to is as possible, with his disc oriented against the flow. By the sound of it, yours appears to have found a similar spot in your tank. Just make sure that you have that filter/pump intake very well blocked off.
Nice lookin nem!
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Definitely keeping foam over the pumps! Thank for the tip!

It definitely likes the disc oriented with lots of flow.
 
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