rbta/gbta

[SNAKEMANVET]

I wondering what the differance is.I have got 8 gbtas,they are doing good but everytime I get a rbta it last about 3 or 4 months then just shrinks in size and stops eating.I have lost 4 rbtas in the last 2 years.I am just confussed.

 

[ocellaris123]

Post your parameters, what is your lighting, how much do you feed the anemones, and do you run carbon?

 

[Anemone]

I've found that a group of clones can inhibit a new addition. In my case, I have a large group of female RBTAs that have inhibited a male RBTA (now two male clones). You may need to hand feed the new addition - and be aware, that different RBTAs have different "preferences" for food. In my case, all my female clones loved krill, but the males wouldn't take it (at least initially). I had to feed the males silversides for several months until they would begin accepting krill.

FWIW,
Kevin

 

[zaraemna]

Kevin,
How do you tell the differnce between the male and female anemones?

 

[SNAKEMANVET]

They all are eating krill and silversides.For the first couple of months it grows and look great.Iam setting up a 24ap and try one by itself to see how it does.I have clownwfish living in my other anemones.The last one I had was almost 8'' across and eating like a pig.

 

[david335]

I am confused too. I had both Red & Green but the Red never last within a year while the Greens just keep splitting.

 

[SNAKEMANVET]

Thats the way mine would do.I started with 2 gbtas and now have 8.They are doing great,but yet I can't keep a rbta past 2 or 3 months.I am now setting up a 24 ap with a 150 hqi that will house a rbta and a pair of clowns.

 

[noboddi]

BTAs that clone form a colony. Anemone colonies defend their territory - even warring with rival colonies.

http://www.marinebio.net/marinescience/03ecology/tplow.htm

there can only be one lol

 

[noboddi]

think i meant to post this link

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9054593/

 

[elegance coral]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14656419#post14656419 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by noboddi
think i meant to post this link

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9054593/

That's still a link regarding a completely different species.

 

[noboddi]

that's true; nonetheless they do defend their territory

 

[Anemone]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14635399#post14635399 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by zaraemna
Kevin,
How do you tell the differnce between the male and female anemones?

About the only way we can tell male from female is to have them spawn - females spawn eggs, males only smokey sperm.

You might be able to recognize a female clone by the presence of eggs in the column (if the column is translucent enough (mine is, occasionally), or if you manually split your anemone (the absence of eggs doesn't mean you have a male, your anemone might be female and just not have produced any eggs).

Kevin

 

[SNAKEMANVET]

I had the rbta away from the gbtas and still get the same results.They are in a 120 4x2x2.I was going for the look that mobert has .

 

[ekr]

i had my rbta walk over my gbta and both are find. sometime they are next to each other. they been doing this ever sense i got them. i dont see anything change.

 

[Anemone]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14658700#post14658700 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by SNAKEMANVET
I had the rbta away from the gbtas and still get the same results.They are in a 120 4x2x2.I was going for the look that mobert has .

It could just as easily be chemical warfare/inhibition - ie, not requiring physical contact. You might try running carbon, if you don't already.

Kevin

 

[Anemone]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14661217#post14661217 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ekr
i had my rbta walk over my gbta and both are find. sometime they are next to each other. they been doing this ever sense i got them. i dont see anything change.

Numbers may be the key here. One on one, no harm, no foul. Get a group of five or six of one versus a single of another, and you may have a problem.

Kevin