Rbta guts?

[riseandfloat]

So I fed my RBTA's a few days ago and two of my smaller ones have got this large white bubble coming out of their mouth. I fed them silversides which I only feed once a month or so. I have 13 RBTA's total so I am very careful with maintaining the tank. The silversides are pretty small and these two particular anemones are so small I made sure I only gave them 1 silverside each.

Does anybody have any idea what may have caused this? It has to have something to do with the feeding but I don't understand why it appears they have spit part of their gut out. :headwally: I took the attached picture in the early morning before they started opening up. The tank is very stable and has been set up for over 2 years now, I started putting the nems into the tank a year ago.

Any suggestions or ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

 

[Dkuhlmann]

It's trying to expel whatever is in it's stomach.

Since you didn't get the memo I'll tell you now. Stop feeding siversides NOW> There have been several people to lose anemone's by feeding them. The problem is that they get frozen then thawed then frozen again many times and it creates bad bacteria. No certainly not all but its happened enough to stop everyone from using them.

Instead feed several mysis shrimp or do what I do is buy people grade raw frozen shrimp at your grocery store and cut into small pieces maybe the size of a #2 pencil or a bit larger for bigger anemones. Or feed them pieces of squid or even fresh fish, salmon would be excellent But whatever you do stop using silversides.

 

[riseandfloat]

Okay thank you for the input. I did not know this, I should have done more research before feeding them silversides. I guess the good thing is I do not feed them that often.

Do you think this little "bubble" that is hanging out of him will get pulled back in eventually? Thanks again.

 

[Dkuhlmann]

It should, just give them time and don't feed for a while