RBTA moved....

[TrojanScott]

I've had this guy for about a year now. Bought from a fellow reefer on a huge piece of show rock, and he has never moved from his spot. I've even taken the whole rock out and put it in a holding tub while I had to take the water out for a project.

So, two nights ago the RBTA shrinks up, I didn't think anything of it, it has in the past, and today, he's on the back side of the rock, out of sight, and not getting much light. (up high in the tank, under a halide) Should I just turn the rock around so he's visible again? I'd hate to not see it, but I'm more concerned wiith it's health and making sure it's okay. It looks fine, just moved to the other side now. I felt pretty lucky after a year to never have it move, and now it has.

I do have a maroon clown who hosts it.

 

[dsoz]

Let it go for a couple of days. Sometimes they move because of some change in the tank. See what happens. If it is not happy in the shade where it moved to, then it will move again.

If you move the rock, you will probably just have it move again anyway.

If you do decide to move it, put the foot in a nice deep crevace so it feels protected. Be careful of the foot if you take it off the rock that it is on.

dsoz

 

[Anemone]

+1 on the "don't move it."

You might start looking for a second anemone too. Some have a tendency to move like that when the split, and the "shrink up" part is because it's now two clones.

Good luck,
Kevin

 

[TrojanScott]

I didn't plan on "moving" it meaning off the rock... more like turning the rock around, that's all. The foot is still attached where I think it's always been, it's just he wanted to see what the other side was like! (rock is very big, and pourous, hard to describe, it's like a big branch rock...)
I'll leave it be for a few days. Didn't think about the split aspect. It's yet to do that, so possible.

 

[fancyfish]

I would leave him for now. If you turn the rock and he is not happy he will move again. Have you change the direction of your power heads or altered the flow any? maybe there is a significant change in one of your parameters? Or maybe he just decided to move as they sometimes do.

 

[TrojanScott]

I did recently change my flow. It was always getting pretty high flow, never bothered it, but I did change the settings on my controller for the Tunzes, so maybe that had something to do with it.

 

[fancyfish]

I bet that is the problem. Is he getting more flow where he is now if so reposition your power head and maybe he will move back

 

[synofreak]

More then likely flow. My RBTA moved after a PH failure. Never looked better for 4-5 days with the low flow, but it wandered after about a year and hosting.
I find BTA's like a ton of flow.All mine are/were directly under and in front of Korilia 3 and 4's. If the tentacles aren't moving constantly/randomly, probably not enough flow.
My Gigantia gets less flow then my 3 BTA's. BTW, I've owned 8, started as 1 RBTA/1BTA, and have had 6 clones outta the BTA in 20 months. I kept the 1st clone, which is bigger then the mother.