Rose BTA

[jpdutton]

Guess what,

I came home from work today and as always I take my coffee into the living room to check out the tank, making sure everythings ok and I look at my lt anemone to make sure it didn't move to much, then I look at my Rose BTA, to make sure it hasn't wandered to far, then I look at my other Rose BTA WAIT A MINUTE I DON"T HAVE ANOTHER ROSE BTA. It split, now i got two. Cool eh.

[Mugster]

Guess what,

I came home from work today and as always I take my coffee into the living room to check out the tank, making sure everythings ok and I look at my lt anemone to make sure it didn't move to much, then I look at my Rose BTA, to make sure it hasn't wandered to far, then I look at my other Rose BTA WAIT A MINUTE I DON"T HAVE ANOTHER ROSE BTA. It split, now i got two. Cool eh.


That is cool. I've had a LTA for close to three years and all it's ever done is grow larger.


Wanna sell it? :naughty:



Kev

[jpdutton]

It will be for sale, I' let it grow in my tank for a while to make sure its healthy. I'm totally happy.

[jpdutton]

The bottom is the original "the recouperating mom", and the top one is the new guy.


http://www.aquariumpros.ca/photopost/data/500/1837DSCF00891-med.JPG

[Chrismo]

Cool, How do you know which is which? :)

Dont they sting your frogspawn there?

[jpdutton]

lol, Ones bigger than the other, but I guess it could be the other way around.

The anemone and the fogspawn were having a lazer war a couple months ago but have since called a truce.

[Sohal Tang]

on the subject of rbta...
I bought mine about 4 months ago or so...when I bought it ..it looked like a normal rbta....within a week or so it went BRIGHT PINK and does not have
the BUBBLE type of look but rather a regular type of anenome look but BRIGHTTTTT pink...gorgeous....

Do RBTA do this? It has remained like that forever....
It hides at night...comes out in day but PINK PINK but seems to be
healthy....has gold stripe maroons living in it....

NORMAL?

Tim

[jpdutton]

From what I learned, some bta will bubble some won't. Mine which I got from member stylie bubbled all the time when in his tank but not in mine, but it split in mine.

I've seen rose tip anemones at BAs, different from a Rose BTA. I might be a long tentical anemone. Can you get a picture.

[Sohal Tang]

it is definitely a rbta...but you would never know it to look at it..
sorry cannot take pics right now...wife dropped camera at wedding a month ago! peeee me off

Tim

[jpdutton]

I was just looking at the anemones and it looks like the little one is starting to bubble the tenticals are way more puffed ten the bigger one has ever been in my tank.

[Reef Mike]

I always thought BTAs lost their bubbles in our Tank?? Tim I think its normal.

Mike

[jpdutton]

Its normal, but doesn't happen all the time. Alot of people have them bubbled. Look in the classifieds for stylies ad.

[jpdutton]

Here's another pic at one week, you can see this one's tenticals are starting to bulb. None of the clowns have notice this anemone yet.

http://www.aquariumpros.ca/photopost/data/500/1837DSCF0111-med.JPG

[Badger]

is there some kind of way to get a rose bta to split? will it split faster if u feed it everyday or something???
thanks

[nevareth]

I once read on RC:

1. Feed heavy for 2 weeks
2. Starve for 2 weeks
3. Do a significant water change
4. Start feeding heavy again

The belief is that the split is triggered by the stress.

[jpdutton]

I feed mine once or twice a week. Water changes are minimal. I keep the salinity higher around 1.026-7. Before he split he didn't move aroud in the tank so it seemed he was rather comfortable, It found his place and stayed there. The only stress he may have been under is being close to my frogspawn or maybe my LTA but nevertheless he never moved around til after the split. For about a month he wandered all over the tank until settling in his normal spot.

[Badger]

can that kill it tho?

[jpdutton]

Can what kill it?

Just as I was posting my last reply my BTA has moved himself into a cave behind my LTA. quite weird. However my tomato clowns like it because they host both.

[Badger]

when i asked will that kill it i meant by feeding it for 2 weeks and stoping and changing the water, and it might split from the stress, can that stress also kill it how risky is that?

[jpdutton]

I would think its risky, not that the feeding would hurt it. However an anemone will only eat what it wants and anything left over get regurgicated back into the aquarium which could quit quickly mess up you water quality. Hence not be good for the anemone or anything else in the aquarium.