Will dime sized RBTA frag survive?

[CW from the OC]

One of my RBTA's crawled into the overflow. I caught it before it went all the way down. It lost about 1/3 of its mass, but a week later it is fine and eating again.

The day after I rescued it, I changed my filter sock. I always look inside the dirty sock in case a fish got in there or some thing, and low and behold I find 3 frags, 2 about the size of a dime, 1 the size of a half dollar. They were already healed up and looking like little RBTA's.

The biggest one seems to have a mouth now, but I can't really tell on the dime sized ones. Will they form mouths and survive, or is it just a matter of time before they die?

 

[geo]

I would say yes they will be fine.
These are very durable critters.

 

[ratimpulse]

I would say try feeding them very small pieces of shrimp or such but I havent owned mine for a long period of time. But thats just a guess.

 

[tstone]

I would feed them small amounts of ground shrimp and or silversides.

If they eat they should be OK.

 

[finding nemo]

I would love to see pictures of them, can you do that?
and yes they will survive if you feed them and get them into the light.
Way cool

 

[Anemone]

Yes, I've had RBTA "frags" of this size survive. Feed them size-appropriate food and they will grow, albeit slowly.

FWIW,
Kevin