BTA recovery with daily feedings

[jeffchapok]

Here's my poor little BTA after getting nuked by a condylactis that freaked out when I added H2O2 to my tank to combat GHA.

It barely survived. It shriveled up to the size of a shirt button for a week or two, and when it finally opened back up, most of its tentacles were gone. This pic is of it looking its best during that time.

It languished like this for months, with little to no growth apparent. It occurred to me one day that with no tentacles, it was probably unable to absorb much light. Therefore it was likely starving. At that point I decided to try an experiment – I would feed it every day.

I've been doing this now for maybe 2 months, feeding it the same frozen sea clams that I feed my fish. Within that time frame, it has restored to this.

In light of this, I've begun feeding all my nems much more frequently, not necessarily daily like this BTA but at the very least every other day. So far they all seem to be happy.

 

[andrewey]

Pretty soon you'll have a post about how BTAs have overgrown your tank and won't stop splitting

But seriously, congratulations on rescuing the nem and coaxing it back to better health!

 

[PicassoClown04]

Personally I feed my RBTA every day the LRS Nano Reef Frenzy (I smear it on my finger and wave it around in the tentacles or find a larger chunk and give it to her) because no matter how small I can get the piece, my baby clowns can’t finish it and I don’t want to waste it and let my nitrates go through the roof. She loves it! She wasn’t very bubbly at the store and they pretty much just gave her to me at $40 and now she’s super bubbly and has colored up a lot! Pics from around when I first bought her to now.
About 2 weeks in, not very bubbly and no green, mostly pinkish

About a week ago, feeding every day for maybe 2 months

 

[jeffchapok]

One week later and still recovering nicely...

 

[jeffchapok]

Time for an update. Looks like we're out of the woods.

 

[PicassoClown04]

Yay! I love a success story with these guys, there’s not enough of them imo

 

[mikedrumm22]

I know im late but wanted to say thank you for sharing! I have a bta that ended up in a similiar state, and SO MANY PEOPLE told me to not feed. Well I’ve been feeding mysis daily, and my bta is growing back its tentacles. Thank you, its rare for someone to document a recovery so well.

 

[Floyd-]

I needed to see this also. I have 3 BTAs and all 3 are small and barely open up. I was also told not to feed them. Ill start feeding them some of the TDO pellets and see how they do.