RBTA Problems???

[The_Browns]

Can anyone explain what is going on with my RBTA. It started looking bad about 3 weeks ago, split 2 weeks ago an looking deformed and unhealthy

 

[NirvanaFan]

Have the clowns been in it the whole time? They may be beating it up a bit.

 

[The_Browns]

They have been in it for about 3-4 months

 

[Cheekymonkey]

Mine looks like that too, had it almost a year... Doing just fine.

 

[The_Browns]

You mean I have a Rose Freak Show Tip Anemone not a RBTA?

 

[chrisstie]

Well splitting can be a normal or it can be a sign of stress. If it just split it could be working on healing itself up but if its stress I'd run some carbon, do a large water change, check the age of your bulbs and see if theres anything new you've done to the tank to see if it could have aggrivated the anemone

 

[weaver5]

IMO with it just recently splitting I would try to keep the clowns out of it for a couple weeks.I know it is hard to do but maybe put some type of cage or something over it. It needs to heal and clowns can be prett rough on them. I used to have a rbta and a pair of maroon clowns had to get rid of them nem because they were loving it to death. Good luck
Scott

 

[dalston]

I agree with weaver, it needs time to heal...also in the first pic it looks like the clown is bigger/as big as than the nem, the nem should be at least 1.5 time bigger than the clown to withstand the roughness

 

[dugg]

How old are your lights? I know i can make mine split by moving it from the tank with MH to the one with T-5's. Splitting is a sign of stress, so you might want to look into either the bulb age, or water params. Looks like he will be fine to me though. Mine also goes from bubble tipped in the MH to long tentacles under the T-5's.

 

[The_Browns]

MIne is under MH that are only about 4 months old. Reflux 12k's 250w