To bubble or not to bubble?

[ginpang]

No one seems to know why some bta's bubble and some don't...with the amount of experience on this forum we should be able to compile good data to try and figure it out , no?

So who here has bubbles ? And which of your parameters do you think influences the most? ( flow, light spectrum, light intensity, ratio of daylight and lunar , salinity, calcium, alkalinity -ph , temperature, supplemental feeding, stress induced by inhabitants such as fish, shrimp or crab...etc)

Who here has no bubbles ? Same question...

 

[aznflyfisherman]

My green and rainbow has bubbles, but my rbtas doesn't. But not really sure if the big ones are rose, maybe its a rainbow btas?

 

[ginpang]

To bubble or not to bubble?

Ok. From your picture , we could probably rule out , flow, water parameters, supplementation , night/day ratio.

Other observations... Could the green have too much light , the rainbow be perfect and the red be stretching out for light?

we could add to our possible variables the length of time they have been under artificial light vs. New arrivals.

Has the rose been there much longer than the other two?
And do the clownfish visit the others or stay in the rose ?


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[joshbrookkate]

Anemones are the main focus of my 75g.
My observation is that light is the thing that affects my BTAs the most. Greens and rainbows love the light from my T5s. They don't seem to like the light from my cheap Leds. So I only use them now for light supplement, ramping on and off and actinics.
But my flame BTAs do not seem to like the lights as bright as my other BTAs. They hide and move more than the others.
Just my experience.
I will try to post a picture later. I've never posted a pic before so I need to work it out.
I'll be following this thread to see others observations.....
Michelle

 

[jah hoeva]

My RBTA's bubble up. I seem to think it has to do with lighting and flow. They never bubbled up with my LEDs but the first day they met the T5, bubbles everywhere. May be more spectrum related than PAR, but who knows.

 

[g_langley]

It's a difficult one, consider two split BTA's starting out with bubbles and one loses them. Same tank, same parent BTA, similar location in tank.

In that scenario I wouldn't rule out fish/critters, if you have them.

 

[D-Nak]

There's too many factors and variables to determine why or why not a BTA will have bubbles or not. Some BTAs have half of their tentacles bubbled and the other have are long and stringy. I used to think it had to do with buoyancy but not so much anymore.

 

[CoralsAddiction]

Ok. From your picture , we could probably rule out

So all it takes is one picture to rule out many important factors? Lol
Don't get me wrong it's valuable but with so many RBTA owners on this forum itd be nice to see what others have to show as well.

 

[ginpang]

So all it takes is one picture to rule out many important factors? Lol

Don't get me wrong it's valuable but with so many RBTA owners on this forum itd be nice to see what others have to show as well.

Lol! I said we could rule out , not we will... Besides if it get more posts all the better ...




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[ginpang]

My RBTA's bubble up. I seem to think it has to do with lighting and flow. They never bubbled up with my LEDs but the first day they met the T5, bubbles everywhere. May be more spectrum related than PAR, but who knows.

Spectrum probably has a lot to do with it... I know people who have led's and bubbles on their nem. What colour temperature are your t5's?


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[ginpang]

It's a difficult one, consider two split BTA's starting out with bubbles and one loses them. Same tank, same parent BTA, similar location in tank.

In that scenario I wouldn't rule out fish/critters, if you have them.

Awesome stuff. Two from split, one does and the other doesn't?
Anything you can think of that's different from their location? Which one has critters in it? Bubble or no bubble?


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[ginpang]

There's too many factors and variables to determine why or why not a BTA will have bubbles or not. Some BTAs have half of their tentacles bubbled and the other have are long and stringy. I used to think it had to do with buoyancy but not so much anymore.

Buoyancy of the tentacles you mean ?
Also do you think bubbles could be linked to the cnidoblasts?


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[ginpang]

Anemones are the main focus of my 75g.
My observation is that light is the thing that affects my BTAs the most. Greens and rainbows love the light from my T5s. They don't seem to like the light from my cheap Leds. So I only use them now for light supplement, ramping on and off and actinics.
But my flame BTAs do not seem to like the lights as bright as my other BTAs. They hide and move more than the others.
Just my experience.
I will try to post a picture later. I've never posted a pic before so I need to work it out.
I'll be following this thread to see others observations.....
Michelle

If you download Tapatalk it's real easy to post a picture[emoji3]


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[LotsaTanks]

I have 3 bubble tip anemones and they are all within the same area, under the same flow, same lights, and are all from the same place. 2 are long and tenacled without bubbles, and one has bubbles all over its tentacles. No idea why.

 

[ginpang]

I have 3 bubble tip anemones and they are all within the same area, under the same flow, same lights, and are all from the same place. 2 are long and tenacled without bubbles, and one has bubbles all over its tentacles. No idea why.

Are they all the same colour?


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[phender]

In the 1980s and '90s all my tanks had 4 to 5 normal output fluorescents on all my 4 - 5 tanks, 2 actinics and 2 or 3 daylight bulbs. It didn't matter the conditions of the tanks, all the BTAs had bubbles. I changed some of my tanks to Compact fluorescents and they still bubbled. When I went to T5s and/or Metal Halides all my BTAs lost their bubbles.

I know others say when they increased their light the bubbles returned, so exactly the opposite of my experience.

From all the things I have read from others and experienced for myself, I am of the opinion it is a spectrum thing. But when you have people with anemones that have half the tentacles bubble and half don't, its pretty tough to show a reason without some serous chemical (inside the anemone) or light testing.

 

[LotsaTanks]

Yes, all are rainbow bubble nems.

 

[Ssteve]

Here's one for you. Purchased a decent sized rbta and the day after I put it in my tank it split. One half bubbled, the other half did not. Same 120g tank, within a few inches of each other so lighting and flow was almost identical etc.

 

[joshbrookkate]

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[ginpang]

Nice! Are some clones?


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