RBTA growth

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Southernstang98

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I have two 150w MH 14k lights over my 55gal tank and the anemone is about half way up on a rock. water parameters as following: ph 8.2 salt .025-.026 temp 76-78 0ppm on everything but nitrates which is like 10ppm.

Question: do RBTA have a slow growth rate? Has good color has been in the tank for about a month and I feed it every other day with a small amount of brine shrimp.
 
I've only ever kept them under LED's (Kessil), but even when regularly fed and otherwise happy looking I never got a lot of growth out of my BTA's. I wouldn't have expected to be able to see much difference after just a month but maybe my experience has been unusual. Pretty frustrating and hard to know what to attribute it to when some people end up with them taking over their whole tank after multiple splits from a single specimen.
 
I use to feed mine, they'd grow a bit and then split so I was over it. Now I don't feed and within 3 months, all of them have tripled to quadrupled in size. In my opinion nothing beats proper flow and lighting for em, but it all depends on the specimen as well.
 
bshow24 said:
I use to feed mine, they'd grow a bit and then split so I was over it. Now I don't feed and within 3 months, all of them have tripled to quadrupled in size. In my opinion nothing beats proper flow and lighting for em, but it all depends on the specimen as well.
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I have 2 150w mh lights with 14k Hamilton pendants and I could increase my flow more I guess on that side. So I think I'm going to only feed it once a week and see if it changes since you mentioned that.
 
From what I've found in this hobby, even though it's not much compared to some others, you can't go wrong keeping things consistent. As long as you aren't tinkering and you are providing optimum conditions, everything will grow at some point!

And yeah, the splitting is no fun. Just tonight I was finally able to get 2 anemones out of my main display and make room for the corals. They are awesome and my clowns love em, but I paid a few dollars more for the corals. I'm sure the clowns in my 8 gallon will appreciate another 2 anemones anyways haha.
 
bshow24 said:
From what I've found in this hobby, even though it's not much compared to some others, you can't go wrong keeping things consistent. As long as you aren't tinkering and you are providing optimum conditions, everything will grow at some point!

And yeah, the splitting is no fun. Just tonight I was finally able to get 2 anemones out of my main display and make room for the corals. They are awesome and my clowns love em, but I paid a few dollars more for the corals. I'm sure the clowns in my 8 gallon will appreciate another 2 anemones anyways haha.
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That is true, im sure my lighting is enough with the hamilon pendants and 14k bulb. maybe its just a slow grower
 
bshow24 said:
From what I've found in this hobby, even though it's not much compared to some others, you can't go wrong keeping things consistent. As long as you aren't tinkering and you are providing optimum conditions, everything will grow at some point!

And yeah, the splitting is no fun. Just tonight I was finally able to get 2 anemones out of my main display and make room for the corals. They are awesome and my clowns love em, but I paid a few dollars more for the corals. I'm sure the clowns in my 8 gallon will appreciate another 2 anemones anyways haha.
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I don't know how to delete the post above this one but
This is what it looks like now , thoughts ?
 

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It's good that it's eating why I found out is that the more you leave the tank alone and not touch things like power heads or pumps etc the better the bubble tips do I'm so touchy with my tank always trying to get them right but I found the more I move and change the less I see growth so as said before keep things constant even the feedings and you should see growth stability and patience is your greatest virtue in anemone keeping :)


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bshow24 said:
I use to feed mine, they'd grow a bit and then split so I was over it. Now I don't feed and within 3 months, all of them have tripled to quadrupled in size. In my opinion nothing beats proper flow and lighting for em, but it all depends on the specimen as well.
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I had them split when I over fed them (usually that night or the next night if it happened). The last GBTA I had in Japan grew ridiculously fast going from about 3" to 7" in the few months we had it (wife got a little happy with the feeding while I was out of town for a month). She was feeding it daily (I typically fed it once or twice a week). It moved from the lower left to the upper right and stayed put (Photon 24 on a 50g). Cant remember what intensities I was using at the time. EXIF data shows this is only two weeks apart; not sure what is going on there but it couldn't have been more than 4 months or less than 3 (we moved back to the states a few months after we purchased it).




 
That's nice, I got a rbta from a girl in Alabama and it looked like yours and did the same. Unfortunately, my tank kicked the bucket because someone sprayed a airfreasher near it and caused the water to sour.
 
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