RBTA Mouth Open?

[SkullV]

Had ANOTHER question (sorry) about my RBTA that I introduced a week ago. It looks very healthy and is very sticky, opens up during the day and closes a bit at night. My question is about it's mouth. It seems that sometimes it is open and sometimes it is tightly closed but I have noticed that today it has been slightly open (not like gaping) since the lights turned on.

Should I be worried or can this just be normal? It did snatch up some mysis today that I was feeding to the tank and ate it with no issues. It also has not moved at all which leads me to believe it is not unhappy with where it is.

Pictures:

 

[smtank]

I have had a lot of BTAs in my time and I would say yours looks fine, no worries.

 

[garygb]

"I have had a lot of BTAs in my time and I would say yours looks fine, no worries. "

+1

 

[SkullV]

Unfortunately things took a serious turn for the worst today and the anemone was melting and there was white stuff coming out of its mouth. I removed it to QT but I don't think anything is going to change.

 

[smtank]

Sorry to hear this, I find it very odd.

Sounds like a bacterial infection set in.

Where you feeding it and if so what?

Could the Maroon clown been a little too rough for it ?

Taking it out was the right move IMO, once they go bad they can crash a system. Very frustrating I am sure.

 

[SkullV]

Sorry to hear this, I find it very odd.

Sounds like a bacterial infection set in.

Where you feeding it and if so what?

Could the Maroon clown been a little too rough for it ?

Taking it out was the right move IMO, once they go bad they can crash a system. Very frustrating I am sure.

It seemed to be doing very well with the maroon. I have a 24gal nano set up cycling right now that will house the maroon a new RBTA and possibly one other fish.

Hopefully things do better in there.

 

[garygb]

Sorry to hear that, the anemone in the original pic appears healthy. What happened?

 

[SkullV]

Well, i have JUST noticed that my koralia that provided flow for the nem died. Could that have anything to do with it?

 

[Friday Night]

Double my bad

 

[Friday Night]

Unfortunately things took a serious turn for the worst today and the anemone was melting and there was white stuff coming out of its mouth. I removed it to QT but I don't think anything is going to change.

How long has the system that had them nem in it been running prior before you put the nem in?

 

[garygb]

Skull, any chance you could post pics now that it's in QT?

And to answer your question about the powerhead dying, I doubt that would cause an anemone to go down hill that quickly.

 

[velvetelvis]

I hope your new BTA does well. I wouldn't keep another fish in that 24 with the nem and your maroon, though. Maroon clownfishes are very territorial and aggressive, especially in small tanks.

 

[Prez1]

Unfortunately things took a serious turn for the worst today and the anemone was melting and there was white stuff coming out of its mouth. I removed it to QT but I don't think anything is going to change.

I would have liked to have seen a picture of the melting w/ white stuff. My GBTA excretes white stuff occassionally while shrunk and mouth very wide open (almost looks as though she's turning herself inside out sometimes). I panic'd one morning and thought something was terribly wrong but it wasn't. She remained shrunk and expelling for awhile and was all out in full-bulb-glory later in the day.

What I am going to watch for is any signs of her tips fading from the bright green when deflated and/or if her body loses it's tan/brown color. Plus, of course, remaining deflated for a very extended period of time, gaping mouth all the time, etc.. Only then will I be very concerned.

When she does this cycle again, I will take pictures of what mine does.

I say all this because it looks healthy in your first pic.

 

[KpopAMD]

I would have liked to have seen a picture of the melting w/ white stuff. My GBTA excretes white stuff occassionally while shrunk and mouth very wide open (almost looks as though she's turning herself inside out sometimes). I panic'd one morning and thought something was terribly wrong but it wasn't. She remained shrunk and expelling for awhile and was all out in full-bulb-glory later in the day.

What I am going to watch for is any signs of her tips fading from the bright green when deflated and/or if her body loses it's tan/brown color. Plus, of course, remaining deflated for a very extended period of time, gaping mouth all the time, etc.. Only then will I be very concerned.

When she does this cycle again, I will take pictures of what mine does.

I say all this because it looks healthy in your first pic.

my GBTA does the same thing as well the other night, first i got worried to the point that i already wanna take it out and throw it, its excreting slimy stuffs and mouth wide open having second thoughts... now its back to itself, im glad i didnt throw it away haha now maroon is happy GBTA happy again,

 

[SkullV]

Well, it's a goner, looked like a ball of slime in QT and I finally flushed it this morning. I don't know what could have happened. No water parameters changed, the temp was the same as always, the maroon didn't change anything. The only difference was the koralia being shut off.

The tank had been up for a little over 6 months and was fully cycled with a bunch of very established and cured liverock from a trusted source. The parameters have been stable for the last 4 months.

Hopefully everything will be better with the next BTA in the nano. I am doing a 70w metal halide clamp on or a 60* optics par38 8" above the water. I hate that this had to happen to an animal but at least it was a captive bred clone and not something taken from the ocean.

Thanks for all the advice guys!

 

[Anemone]

Sorry.

When you said the Koralia "shut down," you didn't say how or what happened. Is it possible the pump leached something into the water (either chemical or electrical)?

Otherwise, one to two weeks is a fairly common time period for stressed specimens to die. It just may have been stressed beyond recovery before it came into your hands.

Kevin

 

[aleonn]

So sorry to hear. I'm confused what may have caused this as well, and so suddenly. The only other thing I can really think of is if you fed him a large piece of fish that may have gotten caught inside of it, causing an infection.

 

[SkullV]

So sorry to hear. I'm confused what may have caused this as well, and so suddenly. The only other thing I can really think of is if you fed him a large piece of fish that may have gotten caught inside of it, causing an infection.

He did eat a whole thawed krill earlier in the day. I am pretty upset about this but I am going to talk to the guy I bought him from and reserved another one of his RBTA for when my NC24 is ready for it.