New Rose BTA w/pics
- Thread starter vegasr
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I'm interested in the origin of these Japanese RBTAs. No offence but this looks just like my Bali RBTAs. Nice RBTA nonetheless.
Here is a Japanese collected RBTA for reference:
http://chura-umi.com/sp/tmr.html
Japanese RBTAs don't have green bases. They are red/orange all over.
The locally collected ones are hard to come by and this one is 16000 yen. If exported you can double that (at least).
Not trying to cause a fuss, but this is the second post referring to Japanese RBTAs I have seen in two days, neither look like the local ones. I hope this isn't more selective labelling by wholesalers like we saw with zoanthids.
Matt
Here is a Japanese collected RBTA for reference:
http://chura-umi.com/sp/tmr.html
Japanese RBTAs don't have green bases. They are red/orange all over.
The locally collected ones are hard to come by and this one is 16000 yen. If exported you can double that (at least).
Not trying to cause a fuss, but this is the second post referring to Japanese RBTAs I have seen in two days, neither look like the local ones. I hope this isn't more selective labelling by wholesalers like we saw with zoanthids.
Matt
No doubting it is a fine specimen at all. Very nice. My new build will be 90% BTA specific in all their colour morphs and sizes and a few zoas and softies.
I remember the Japanese Deepwater Zoas craze (those zoas are in fact the same as the Indonesian zoas we get in Japan for 10 dollars a rock) and am always a bit wary when I see the word Japanese put in front of something as it seems to be a licence to rack up the $$ . So I now always do a double-take.
Matt
I remember the Japanese Deepwater Zoas craze (those zoas are in fact the same as the Indonesian zoas we get in Japan for 10 dollars a rock) and am always a bit wary when I see the word Japanese put in front of something as it seems to be a licence to rack up the $$ . So I now always do a double-take.
Matt
qbical
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Def. a good point and thanks for that link. Those look exactly like how mine do now and never ever split. However, when i first got mine it looked almost exactly like the little one he posted. idk if that is coincidence but just wanted to toss that out there. do the Japanese ones split that often?
it is a nice bta however
I think it depends on the BTA. In Japan, shops sell two kinds of BTA (sangoisoginchaku and tamaitadkiisoginchaku). In my experience the former split regularly and the latter being larger don't. I don't know if these are one and the same species. In Japan, all the textbooks list one as E quadricolor and the other as E Ramseyi (no idea if this name is even valid).
By the way, what is a sherman BTA? Are those the ones with green tentacles changing to red one third of the way up?
Cheers
Matt
By the way, what is a sherman BTA? Are those the ones with green tentacles changing to red one third of the way up?
Cheers
Matt
CockyBrock
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vegasr
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1: Thanks!
2: Myexoticfishandcorals.com They had more and looked equally as great. Will be my go to place for corals and such.
3: The Mrs. took it with our Canon EOS 5D, came out really nice and was her first try at manual mode.
Thanks again.
Mavrk
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Thanks for the info. Manual mode explains it. I guess I really have to try that myself.
vegasr
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UPDATE
Well the first evening our RBTA detached from the small rock he was on. It creeped to the back of the island it was on. I coaxed him to move with a small powerhead.
Here is where its at right now after 8 hours of flow on him.
By vegasr at 2010-09-16
By vegasr at 2010-09-16
Hopefully it will creep a little bit more to the front.
Well the first evening our RBTA detached from the small rock he was on. It creeped to the back of the island it was on. I coaxed him to move with a small powerhead.
Here is where its at right now after 8 hours of flow on him.
By vegasr at 2010-09-16
By vegasr at 2010-09-16
Hopefully it will creep a little bit more to the front.
kmu
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UPDATE
Well the first evening our RBTA detached from the small rock he was on. It creeped to the back of the island it was on. I coaxed him to move with a small powerhead.
Here is where its at right now after 8 hours of flow on him.
By vegasr at 2010-09-16
By vegasr at 2010-09-16
Hopefully it will creep a little bit more to the front.
Nice BTA, looks like it found a nice spot for its foot to hide in and its tentacles to get light and flow
Newreeflady
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I hope you don't lose that beauty to the powerhead right behind it...
gl
gl
wizardx322
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how come it looks more red in the first pic and less in the pics after it moved?
what lighting system do you have?
what lighting system do you have?
