Green BTA hiding all day

[Slapp]

Hello.
I got a new Green BTA on Sunday. Pretty colors and is still moderately bubbly.
However, he decided the best spot to be during the day is inside a little hole in my rocks and not in the nice light for him to soak in. At night he comes out and expands to +4” but there’s barely a dime sized portion poking out during the day.

I assume he’s acclimating to my lights? The LFS has low lighting compared to me. I’ve got an 18 watt par38 bulb zapping maybe 100-200 par on that rock.

Protocol is to keep the lights, flow, etc all the same until he is fine and dandy correct?

Thank you!

 

[Slapp]

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[Lost in the Sauce]

I don't actually see the split going on.

You're protocol is right, ease into the higher lighting but feeding this early was a mistake in my opinion. Especially a large meal. You just doubled the stress of an already stressed animal.

 

[Slapp]

Um, Nevermind it’s splitting?
I know they split due to stress is that what this is? He ate a whole popcorn shrimp last night too.

 

[Slapp]

I don't actually see the split going on.

You're protocol is right, ease into the higher lighting but feeding this early was a mistake in my opinion. Especially a large meal. You just doubled the stress of an already stressed animal.

The split I think is drawn between the underside and the top side of the rock, it’s hard to get a good picture of it. But there’s two distinct “heads” of tentacles.

I didn’t think feeding would stress it out. I feel awful about that. It didn’t spit anything out at least.

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

The split I think is drawn between the underside and the top side of the rock, it’s hard to get a good picture of it. But there’s two distinct “heads” of tentacles.

I didn’t think feeding would stress it out. I feel awful about that. It didn’t spit anything out at least.

Anenomes dont really Need to eat from us. Good lights will give them what they need for a long time. We fed them to help them grow fast. People feed large meals to helo induce large nems to split. A large meal can't be digested quickly and will sit in them and start decaying. They normally regurgitate when this happens. That's not easy. I feed healthy anenomes maybe two weeks after a transfer or move.

 

[Slapp]

I don't actually see the split going on.

You're protocol is right, ease into the higher lighting but feeding this early was a mistake in my opinion. Especially a large meal. You just doubled the stress of an already stressed animal.

Rain check on the “split”? It had the two heads but I don’t see the other now, maybe it just needed to pull it through and did so by separating it from the disk.

Nem seems healthy regardless. Nice and extended if not on the underside of the rock. Not bleached either. Still opaque except for at the very tips of the tentacles.

I’ll make sure to feed it more responsibly.

Thank you guys

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

Rain check on the “split”? It had the two heads but I don’t see the other now, maybe it just needed to pull it through and did so by separating it from the disk.

Nem seems healthy regardless. Nice and extended if not on the underside of the rock. Not bleached either. Still opaque except for at the very tips of the tentacles.

I’ll make sure to feed it more responsibly.

Thank you guys

Live and learn homie. Let's see it in 2 weeks when it's settled in.

 

[Slapp]

Live and learn homie. Let's see it in 2 weeks when it's settled in.

Sounds good mate

 

[vetteguy53081]

Too much liht and/or water flow will cause this behavior.

 

[Slapp]

Hey folks,
The anemone is still alive despite his constant efforts to avoid the light.
He climbed out from under the overhang for one day, and then went right back under. Currently, he’s had his tentacles reaching through the rock into the light, but only half. This has also stretched his oral disk out into a hotdog shape. Almost comically long.
His color is lost, but he’s still got brown and tan. He’s not completely bleached anymore, and has recovered from a point where he was almost 100% clear.
I’ve been feeding frozen mysis every night. 1 to 2 of the individual shrimp at a time. He eats everytime, and seems nice and happy until the next morning. He’s very inflated at night like before still, but isn’t hiding in his foot all day like before.
I’m not sure how to continue. Should I continue my feeding routine and just hope he comes into the light? I have very white sand just below his rock, is he happy with just that reflected light and supplementary feeding? He hasn’t moved since the initial migration under the rock, is that a sign of happiness or stress?
Ugh this guy is giving me gray hairs. I just want him to be happy.

(side note one of my micro decorator crabs sits under the oral disk, or I guess above, and feeds it? He grabs mysis out of my turkey baster and instead of eating it kinda rubs it on the anemone. It’s cool to watch. All three of them have done it, but only one stays most of the time.)

 

[Slapp]

Hey folks,
The anemone is still alive despite his constant efforts to avoid the light.
He climbed out from under the overhang for one day, and then went right back under. Currently, he’s had his tentacles reaching through the rock into the light, but only half. This has also stretched his oral disk out into a hotdog shape. Almost comically long.
His color is lost, but he’s still got brown and tan. He’s not completely bleached anymore, and has recovered from a point where he was almost 100% clear.
I’ve been feeding frozen mysis every night. 1 to 2 of the individual shrimp at a time. He eats everytime, and seems nice and happy until the next morning. He’s very inflated at night like before still, but isn’t hiding in his foot all day like before.
I’m not sure how to continue. Should I continue my feeding routine and just hope he comes into the light? I have very white sand just below his rock, is he happy with just that reflected light and supplementary feeding? He hasn’t moved since the initial migration under the rock, is that a sign of happiness or stress?
Ugh this guy is giving me gray hairs. I just want him to be happy.

(side note one of my micro decorator crabs sits under the oral disk, or I guess above, and feeds it? He grabs mysis out of my turkey baster and instead of eating it kinda rubs it on the anemone. It’s cool to watch. All three of them have done it, but only one stays most of the time.)

Here’s a pic. My lights aren’t this red idk why the photo looks like that.

 

[Slapp]

Here’s a pic. My lights aren’t this red idk why the photo looks like that.

One last picture of him poking through the rock.

 

[Slapp]

Bump?