She's eating him!!!

[timrandlerv10]

I was using my magnet to clean the front glass, and tore off two tentacles.

My female GSM saw one drifting by and ate it. Hmm. First time I'd ever seen that.

So today, I moved to fast and scared everybody, and three tents came off. She went right after one and ate it.

1) is it ok to be a but creeped out by them eating loose tentacles?
2) why is my bta losing tents?!

These tents are not short bubbles (although my other bta has those--clone) but very long skinny ones.


Thoughts?

 

[Flightpipe]

I dont know if I would say its ok to be losing tentacles like that (I would be concerned) but its fine for them to eat them from what I have read.

Tell us about your set up equipment how long you have had stuff ect.

 

[timrandlerv10]

Nites/nates/ammonia/phos 0
ca 400 (was 360)
alk 11 (was 12+)
ph 8.1
mg 1300
dosing 2 part

4x54 T5 8 hours, 2x150 14k mh 1-4 hrs, 3-4 days a week
octopus nw-150
6" of sand in 1/3 of 55g sump, about 40 lbs of lr in sump, 9w light on sump 24hrs

100 lbs lr in 75g dt w/3" sand

2x koralia 3
mag 5 return

system running 2 years, got bta at six mo's, split three times.
2 mated gsm, maybe 2 peppermint shrimp (heh)
caulerpa and hair algae, harvested more often than kudzu (boo...but it keeps nates/phos low)

feed formula one flake, ora glow pellets, frozen cyclopeeze, sporadic silversides or table shrimp

also dose some vitamins and iron and reef snow or equivalent.


Whew.

 

[Reefvette]

eating

eating

i believe that eating tentacles also helps clowns adjust to a new anemone with their slime coat. Im not a expert but i have noticed it with my akinydos when i put in my gigantea at first and when i introduced a new RBTA.

 

[patriots81]

a bta splitting 3 times in 6 months sounds like it is stressed.