shrooms + bta

[timrandlerv10]

...so the frogspawn was getting beaten to death as the bta was expanding, and now rubbing his tentacles on a few of the branches.

i moved the frogspawn, and swapped it with a broken shell with a few green mushrooms on it.

2 days later the larger-than-dinner-plate sized bta now looks like one of those fuzzy/stringy rubber balls.

any relation?

thanks!

 

[Seventy]

I was also curious about BTA's and Mushrooms together. Myself and my wife have a 55gal tank w/ 20gal fuge. My wife likes clownfish so of course we have a GBTA for them to host in, but I'm heavy into shrooms and was hoping that as long as the BTA stays in its own area, then we wont have any problems, and if it was to move closer to my shrooms would there be much of an interaction or would they just co-exist.

 

[TampaSnooker]

A few of my tanks with mature rbta colonies have developed very distinct spacing. No doubt the two don't like each other, but I've never seen mushrooms hurt an anemone. Usually, the anemone kills off the shrooms once it has selected it's 'home'.

I sometimes have trouble keeping the anemones from going after the frogs and hammers. They don't seem to like the presence of another strong stinger and will crawl over, sting the bejeezus out of it and then return to its preferred location. I have taken to using leathers next to the anemones, since they don't seem to react as badly to stings.

As for the sudden deflation, any possibility that the animal was torn while working around it? The only green shroom I can think of that might overpower a bta would be a green fuzzy - they are very potent.