Worms new RBTA

[worm5406]

I recently got a coral/sps/frag order and along with it came a RBTA.

It has been in my tank for about two weeks so far.

I had it in a fish cage for acclimation and over all keeping it satisfied before the clowns found it.

I had to go work a fundraiser and came back at 2am to this:

It went from sitting on the container, attached to the rock, to one tenticle hangout out to hanging all the way out and still attached to the rock.

Yeah this is the fish holder that has the TINY slots in the bottom.

HAHAHAHA... IT WANTED OUT.

So I woke up the next morning and it was GONE.

I looked down where it would have landed and saw a new sand trail up the rock and down into a spot behind the leather. I look and can see one sole tenticle waiving in the flow.

So I move the leather and there it/she/he is. All happy and content.

I am fighting some HA so I am on day three of Lights out right now.

Here is a pic two days ago:

Here is yesterday during day two of lights out:

 

[maddmaxx]

bonus.....if it came as a hitch hiker..and anemones squeeze thru anythinggggg brotha..question, how does your tank do with 4 ocellaris in it? and probs with aggression?

 

[worm5406]

Well there are actually 6 in there. Two cinnamon and 4 OC's. Actually they all get along very nice.

The 4 OC's took the ritteri.

I got the BTA on a coral buy two weeks ago. Yes they do squeeze through anything they want!

I am in lights out right now for HA... I will take some pics of the new coral and post in my build thread when the lights are back to normal. Today is day 3 so tomorrow is all actnics.

 

[maddmaxx]

keep fighting the good fight

 

[worm5406]

I am and I KNOW it will be better tomorrow and the next day from here on out. Always looking up.

 

[bues0022]

How long have you had all of those clowns in the tank? Long-term viability of more than 2 clowns in a single tank is very slim.

Long-term viability is measured in years, not months or weeks.

 

[worm5406]

Ohh I know and they have all been in since they were young. I bought the 4 oc's together out of the same hatch and the 2 cinnamon were together.

I always planned on upgrading over time. And when I upgraded the 120 to 180 I knew this made the opportunity of separating them even better.

In my FTS you can see:

The ritteri in the TDC (top dead center) and with 3 of the OC's. The OC's have both already paired so there are 2 fem and 2 males. The 2 Cinnamon's are on the right hand side, with there anemone down in the substrate, white balance is off so you can not see exactly where it is.

Ohh... 1 year together.

But yes.. to separate them has always been the plan. Let them pair and settle, like they are now, and then move forward to getting them set for their own future.

YES I know about the dreaded green stuff. In an attempt to seed the 180 when it was cycling I put LR in that had GHA. It is in the process of being removed, long and tedious on my side, I know, but the ONLY good thing is the levels have been DOWN from it. My MACRO algae in the sump is kicking away, so the removal of the GHA will already be able to pickup the nutrients of the cheato there.

 

[worm5406]

OK so... Yesterday was first day after 3x days of lights out. It was an actnic day.

I will take pictures when I get home, my cell does not take good blue light pictures.

I will say that the cinnamon just found the RBTA and is trying to host it. Stingy... it is hosting two now, different spieces too... hahahaha

 

[worm5406]

See all that HA??

I jsut did 3 days of Lights out and 1 day of actnic.. and I SCURBBED today.. (yeah with 2 b's)

Here is a pic of the rbta.

I did not want to disturb it. And it would not get out of this one crevass so I could not clean the GHA around it.

 

[worm5406]

It finally moved out from under the ritteri. It looks happier than it did there. But it is still not as happy. This is day one of being from under the edge of it.

 

[y0ung0ne]

worms nice RBTA mine took a bit to take and once it did a few days to get use to everything it is nearly twice the size of when I bought it.

 

[bobby415]

My friend had found a worm before in the foot of the anemone..it eats your anemone from the inside out..

 

[worm5406]

Not for me... I have my cattle prod out and ready.

 

[bues0022]

My friend had found a worm before in the foot of the anemone..it eats your anemone from the inside out..

I wonder if the worm was actually eating the nen, or scavenging already necrotic tissue. I would guess the latter, but more information would help figure that out.

 

[bobby415]

They burrow into the foot and get there grub on...