Bubble Tip Anemone bubbles and Salinity
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Born2beblack
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Taylor t
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So here’s my experience. Take with grain of sand.
I had a rainbow BTA a decade ago I manually split. I had half on one side and half on another side. I had BTB 75 gallon tanks at the time. On one side I had MH 10k lighting. Other side was T5. The MH side had long stringy tents and grew better. The T5 side had massive bubbles and didn’t grow as much. They were the same anemone, I cut it in half 6 months prior. This was set up about a year this way and both lived how they did the whole time, one bubbled, one stringy. Each in a 75 gallon. Same water system.
go figure. Who knows lol. My gut thinks it’s light quality and intensity that made the difference. T5 made bubble for almost a year. Color was bland. MH made the other one stringy, but had intense color. I haven’t had BTA in a decade so I can’t help much more.
I had a rainbow BTA a decade ago I manually split. I had half on one side and half on another side. I had BTB 75 gallon tanks at the time. On one side I had MH 10k lighting. Other side was T5. The MH side had long stringy tents and grew better. The T5 side had massive bubbles and didn’t grow as much. They were the same anemone, I cut it in half 6 months prior. This was set up about a year this way and both lived how they did the whole time, one bubbled, one stringy. Each in a 75 gallon. Same water system.
go figure. Who knows lol. My gut thinks it’s light quality and intensity that made the difference. T5 made bubble for almost a year. Color was bland. MH made the other one stringy, but had intense color. I haven’t had BTA in a decade so I can’t help much more.
Sleeping Giant
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What are you feeding? And how much?Fed my nem and after 30 mins it went from this
To this and i know shes happy now and ready to look great for 3 days till she wants some more food
And itll keep puffing up now till bed time and tomorrow itll be bubbles all around
Born2beblack
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Bit of reef roids once a week and other days i think needed ill give a few pellets or some mysis
I use a plastic syringe id say i squeeze a mL out or so not a lot but more then the other corals
She eats sell never reject the food
Born2beblack
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Yes i wont disagree with that at all. I only have 5 of 50 possible stores that i approve to be good ones
Hard to find good stuff lol
Hugh Mann
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When I got my BTA Monday, at the store it was lightly bubbled. Day after, heavy bubbles. Through the week, lost the bubbles. Today, bubbles.
I feed it anenome pellets, but that doesn't seem to be a factor.
I feed it anenome pellets, but that doesn't seem to be a factor.
I've had my BTA in tank for about a year. It was nice and bubbly for about a month then got stringy. In September I had Ich breakout in my tank so I removed all the fish and left the tank fallow for about 80 days. While I was doing that, I didn't feed the tank much and my Nitrate and Phosphate levels dropped to zero but the BTA developed large bubbles at the same time. When I started to dose Nitrate and Phosphate to prevent dynos or cyano, the BTA lost it's bubbles at that time and have not returned.
Born2beblack
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We may be onto something here. I’m going to try to dial back the flow (only have the BTAs and softies in this tank) tomorrow and see if it works.
I did notice one of them bubble up more after I fed it a bit of Reef Frenzy Nano directly today.
I did notice one of them bubble up more after I fed it a bit of Reef Frenzy Nano directly today.
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This is interesting but I'm still not convinced. I have a handful of nems in the same exact flow, salinity, parameters, ect and some bubble up, some don't....
Born2beblack
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I do wonder what why it needs.to be figured out
laverda
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Very interesting. My experience has been feeding has had no affect on bubbling. Only a small amount of growth on one of the ones I am feeding.Fed my nem and after 30 mins it went from this
To this and i know shes happy now and ready to look great for 3 days till she wants some more food
And itll keep puffing up now till bed time and tomorrow itll be bubbles all around
laverda
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LFS typically keep there inverts in separate systems at normal salt levels. Fishare kept in lower salinity to help keep parasites under control and give the fish a better survival rate. Fish have to expell excess salt from their system, which takes energy. If they are not expending that energy removing salt, they can use it to fight off disease, parasites and recover from stress better.
I have no idea if that is true, all I know is I have not read any science that backs up that claim.
Just doesn’t seem to pass the common sense test, if an animal lives in 35ppt salinity how is putting it in a lower salinity good for it. Could be we just don’t know.
laverda
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I don't have any scientific papers to back it up. When I worked for an online seller that was what I was told. All the wholesalers I have ever been to believe it is true. Some of them use natural seawater, so it costs them more to reduce the salinity.
Also Fresh water kills many parasites, as does hyposalinity, making it easy to believe it would make it harder for the to survive in lower salinity.
My personal experience backs this up.
Also Fresh water kills many parasites, as does hyposalinity, making it easy to believe it would make it harder for the to survive in lower salinity.
My personal experience backs this up.
