RBTA hides from light

[plancton]

Hi, I have a 175 gal with 8x80 watt T5s with individual reflectors.
My RBTA didn't move for 1 month and its colors looked amazing, then it started to move and it hasn't stoped for like 2 months, it hides from the light, I feed it pieces of shrimp and it does eat them, but keeps hiding from light and its colors are not looking good anymore.

I can't find a reason for its behavior. Help.

 

[WDLV]

Leave it alone. If you try to force it to go where you want it, it will either wear itself out and succumb to disease and starvation or it will find a powerhead intake.
This is normal behavior. Mine found a crevis and stayed there a good six months before it grew large enough to be seen. This is after I moved it all around the tank and it went through the closed loop. Lucky for me, I got three anemones out of one.

I hate to be the one to tell you this, because anemones don't have brains, but that anemone is smarter than you with regard to where it needs to be and how much light it needs.
Just treat your system like it doesn't even exist. If you don't, it won't.

 

[plancton]

I have read that anemones do tend to get lost

 

[redvipe2010]

I've never had an anemone get lost before. If an anemone keeps moving it is not happy. Can you list your water parameters and post a picture? I don't agree with having powerheads with anemones. If you must have them, they need to be protected.

 

[WDLV]

I concur. They do not get lost. They will however seek out current, substrate and lighting conditions that are more suitable to their needs.

 

[plancton]

Its been 4 months since I bought it, and it keeps hidding from Light. I repeat 8x80watt HO T5 with independent reflectors. 175 gal tank, with return pump, SEIO 110 and tunze wavebox.

Parameters are perfect, I just meassured them, salinity, everything is fine. It keeps hidding from light and its been 4 months.

If I feed it pieces of shrimps, it does eat them. And is not desintegrating but it keeps hidding from light and its losing its nice red coloration, its becoming dark pale red, and the bubbles don't look pretty anymore.

I also want to point out that I keep SPS as well, and they thrive in excellent conditions and excellent coloration, therefore the conditions are fine.

 

[faded1004]

mine was the same, i have a semi smaller rbta, and it just hides in side for a while... i even saw pieces of tenticles once... just let it work its way out... i got impatient and moved the rock to the middle, and in my eyes it got ****ed, and moved father away into the dark... just let it come out...

how my little guy is smack in the middle after going all over the tank... he is eating again... it took about 3 weeks for me... before it woudl eat again...

 

[Slakker]

Could be some allelopathy going on between the anemone and the corals, perhaps.

Also, what were your readings on the tests?

 

[plancton]

By allelopathy you mean allergy?. I have never heard of that.

The tank keeps plenty of spaces without corals, I have never seen this anemone toutching corals.

Nitrates are 0
phosphates 0
sillicates 0
salinty 1.024
temp 24c, to 26 or 27c max
calcium 480 mg/L
I add Iodine in small quantities
etc. Can't think of anything else

But I had a BTA normal colloration that was in my old tank and when I moved it to this new tank, I did so with everything and the rock it was attached to, it never moved from the rock, and was happy, and eventually I sold it because I got this prettier RBTA.