So I thought I’ve seen some posts on this but can’t seem to find them. My BTA seems to regularly have these crinkled tips that have multiple tips. Any thoughts?
Crinkled tips on BTA
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KrisReef
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I have a suspicion that some manmade rock has a rough surface(s) that irritate the bubble tentacles. Mine was very happy in a tank with natural live rock. It started having lesions and loosing tips and tentacles in my new tank with manmade rock. I have added some natural live rock into the tank for it but it moved to another spot against manmade rock and I keep seeing loose tentacles.
my observation isn’t data
my observation isn’t data
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This tank is all aquacultured rock
Paleozoic_reefer
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IMO I think it’s a variety of issues. I had the same strain of BTA and they would get wrinkled and elongated as well, split after split no matter where in the tank they were. After reading several posts I think the cause was; for this strain of BTAs the flow was too high, PAR was too strong, and this particular strain has easily deformed tentacles. I slowly sold all the splits of this BTA and moved to one that didn’t seem to have this issue. Now I have another strain that propagates easily and keeps its bubbles.
