To bubble or not to bubble.

[Joshua1023]

I know this has been asked several times at least. I've seen it before on this board, but I'd thought I'd ask again and see what comes up.

I bought a RBTA a month ago. It was completely bubbled up. (pic in gallery) Now it won't inflate its tentacles at all. It looks and acts healthy. I know it must have been the change from the Ocean to my tank as the difference. Has anyone figured out the factor that makes these anemones bubble up? I'd like to get the bubble tips back if possible.

 

[redvipe2010]

It is not completely understood why some loose their bubbles. I have two in the same tank, same clone, one has bubbles, one does not. The one that is up higher in the tank does not have bubbles. One stays on a rock near the sand bed, it has bubbles.

 

[sditch]

Mine bubbled for the first 4 weeks, now it just hangs long.....Very Healthy thou.....

 

[Princess Di]

It varies...mine seem to bubble up more after being fed and first thing in the morning.

 

[Joshua1023]

Has anyone heard of anyone doing any experimentation to try and determine the cause? If I could weed out what doesnt work, maybe I could try a few things and see what happens.

 

[israelnajar]

Same here, it looks more like an LTA than a BTA.

I recently added an additional 850 gallons of flow and it tentacle seem a lot shorter than before and a little fatter. So hopefully that will get it to bubble up.

 

[redvipe2010]

If I had to guess, I would say it was a combination of things, water chemistry, flow and lighting.

 

[55semireef]

If I had to give a reason, I would say flow, lighting, and how often its fed plays the biggest role.

 

[LoudProudNPunk]

is it weird or uncommon for an anemone to have 2 bubbles on the same tentacle? mine has one with 2.

 

[bureau13]

My annoying rampaging RBTA, which is now 5 RBTAs, has no bubbles. They grow like mad, hide their feet in the rocks and then stretch upward to sting all my SPS. I have a GBTA that for whatever reason, has really not been doing well, and I thought it was a goner for sure. Its recently made a bit of a comeback, and it is very "bubble-tippy." Yet, clearly it is not as healthy as the RBTAs. I don't know, its weird!

jds

 

[dc]

LOL, I've never seen a bubble.

 

[55semireef]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10034273#post10034273 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by LoudProudNPunk
is it weird or uncommon for an anemone to have 2 bubbles on the same tentacle? mine has one with 2.

No mine have two bubles too. The lower part of the tentacle bubbles, the mid part is silm and the upper part of the tentacle bubbles.

 

[jeeperrs]

I am not sure what causes it to bubble but mine really only tends to bubble after I feed it. Some say it is a sign of being hungry but from my experience it bubbles when it is full

 

[55semireef]

Mine always bubbles no matter how often I feed or how often I neglect to feed.

 

[Joshua1023]

O.K. so lets say it has nothing to do w/ feeding. 55semireef has a RBTA that always bubbles up. Is this the same anemone that is in your gallery that is entitled recovering bleached anemone? If so then it wasn't always bubbled.

Lets talk about your lighting, water parameters, feeding frequency, and flow. Whaddya got?

 

[BristlewormKing]

I will throw in my two cents.....

I have a couple of clones from my RBTA and BTAs, in addition to some other BTAs. The ones that are in higher current area are not bubbled up. Of the nine, the four that are not hit by the current are the ones that are bubbled - they are shielded either by rock or are below the current. All other parameters are the same - two tanks, shared sump, same lighting, same food, etc. There are a couple of picks of the bubbled ones below:

These are more in the current and do not have the same bubble-tip features (they are clones from the same mother as those in the pics above):

 

[55semireef]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10038205#post10038205 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Joshua1023
O.K. so lets say it has nothing to do w/ feeding. 55semireef has a RBTA that always bubbles up. Is this the same anemone that is in your gallery that is entitled recovering bleached anemone? If so then it wasn't always bubbled.

No, that was a different RBTA. The one I have present always bubbles.

FWIW, the bubble tip I have now occasionally gets a lot of flow from one of my maxi-jets and still stays bubbled up.

 

[Princess Di]

I have about 20 that pretty much stay in the same place. Some get more flow than others and they all will bubble, then not, then bubble, then not.....been this way for over 3 years. These pics are of the same RBTA.

 

[Princess Di]

Here's the same:

 

[Joshua1023]

When they go through a bubbling cycle, is it for a few days or a few hrs at a time?