BTA capacity in Nano

HippoMonstrosity · Jul 26, 2019

I have a 13.5G Nano set up and my 1 Ruby BTA decided to split suddenly. I now have 3 BTAs and even though my clowns love it, I'm not quite sure what to do. It's been about a week and a half and all 3 look healthy and mostly healed from what I can tell. I'm being religious about dosing my tank with stabilizer to trying to maintain steady parameters. Obviously I'm feeding them separately, but is there anything else I should be doing now that I have triple the BTAs? I can't imagine more Anemones will cause a shift in my parameter, right? How long should I wait before I try to remove them from my tank? I don't want to hurt them, any tips from removing them from rocks?

Incidentally. If Anyone near S.E. MN wants a cheap BTA...

Jon Fishman · Jul 26, 2019

Hold an ice-cube to their foot, or point a powerhead at them. They will release.

You’re probably fine with them in there unless they grow a lot

Epic Aquaculture · Jul 26, 2019

They'll be fine. I have 8 of them in a 10 gallon IM AIO, and all of them are happy campers...

FragileReefer · Aug 6, 2019

I have 2 rbta in a 14g too. From what I can't tell they don't take much from the water so I don't think you can have too many per say. Unless your afraid of stinging other coral or inhabitants. I would stop feeding the anenomes, that will cause your water more problems than the nems themselves. Especially if you don't want them to split anymore. I broadcast feed a good frozen food once a week and they get a good feeding then and when they can snag some pellets from my clowns. I noticed I was overfeeding when I target fed each nem. They ate what they could and spit the rest out. I'm sure most overfeed and feed food too large. It's just not worth it ina nano imo.