RBTA pictures

[SoonerFan732]

Here are a few pictures of my RBTAs. I started with one about 4-5 months ago and now I have 6. The first picture is the newest one that formed a few weeks ago. The second picture shows my roaming RBTA. He has been looking for his spot ever since it split from the original. The third picture actually has three in it. Two are on the right (side by side, they look like one when they are spread out). The other is down to the left in the darker part of the cave. The sixth anemone is way back in the cave in the third picture so I couldn't get a picture of it. All of them retreat to the cave in the third picture when the lights go off.

 

[Genin]

awesome. they have great coloration on them. how about a full tank shot.

 

[Wiggawam]

Care to ship some out?

 

[DMK]

how often and what do/did u feed original?

 

[SoonerFan732]

Once I get a few more I plan on moving some out, but I want to get about 10 of them. Then all the clones beyond that will probably be traded out or something like that.

We are setting up a larger tank (perhaps a 125 gallon or 240 gallon, I have both here at my house, but I haven't decided which one to use yet) and I think besides the fish we put in it will only be RTBAs for the most part. I like the anemone dominated tank look! Besides the RTBA don't seem nearly as hard to keep as most corals and these seem to propagate quickly!

I just need to figure out what fish if any I can't keep with the anemones before I set up the tank. What fish like to snack on anemones anyway?

 

[SoonerFan732]

At first I was feeding the original anemone about every third day with a piece of raw shrimp (not the entire piece just part). Then I stopped feeding them when I got the two clown fish. They were all the time taking it food. I also feed frozen brine shrimp to the fish and the anemones usually snag some of them.

The main reason I stopped feeding them directly with the shrimp was they moved to the back of the tank in that cave and itââ"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢s real hard to get to feed them that way. Funny story though, I did feed them directly with a piece of shrimp today and my cleaner shrimp got brave a stole a piece from the tentacles of the smallest anemone. I haven't every seen him get that close to them before!

 

[SoonerFan732]

Here is the full tank shot from about 2 weeks ago. As you can tell you can't even see the RTBAs from the front of the tank most of the time. The yellow arrow points to the cave in the pictures above. If you look real hard in the middle you can see one of them. I have since removed the bridge between the right side and the left side. One of the anemones started moving to the left side. They have already killed a couple of Xenia. Since I removed the bridge they have stayed on their rock pile.