Let's Talk Everything Bubble-Tip Anemones!

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In today's video we head into the farm and talk all about Bubble-Tip Anemones! Some of the care requirements, color morph strains we keep, and our top favorites in the farm!

What is your favorite Bubble-Tip color morph? Let us know in the comments! Be sure to like, subscribe, and hit the bell notification!

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[tzabor10]

Love the rainbow!

 

[Gumbies R Us]

I've always been a fan of black widows!

 

[Northern Flicker]

I don't recommend adding them to a tank with stonies - eventually you will regret it.

 

[kiwikoxo]

Hello!

I don't know if you remember but I brought your black widow during the 12th anni! Here it is! Super bright red/blue! Pic taken with the orange lens filter, pics don't do it justice! Shipping was so fast!

 

[Uncle99]

 

[NkSde]

I bought a gorgeous rainbow bta
He found a crack in prefilter sponge big enough to fit a tentacle into and died never again

 

[NemLoverSA]

I bought a rainbow about 2.5 months ago at about 4". It is now 8-9 inches. It took two days to find its spot which happened to be right in the middle of my tank. Great for me! However, it never bubbles up any more. It spreads out wide, long and skinny. Also, it never looks like a rainbow anymore. Does anyone else have BTAs that have lost their bubbles and changed color?

 

[Derrick0580]

I just pulled 7 from my 120, 5 were rbta which all originated from a single nem. The other two were black widows which started as one. Still have 2 in there that I haven’t been able to get out yet. I’ve sold several others off the original rbta in the past, but whole heartedly regret ever putting one in there as beautiful as they are!

 

[soreefed]

I’ve got a 15g that I’m gunna let the nems take over. Since this pic I’ve removed the corals I care about to a different tank. I don’t think I’d add a nem to a reef tank that had corals I cared about.

 

[Sleeping Giant]

 

[mdpitts]

I picked this one on the left at my LFS and it was a tan/reddish color but after it split and a few months went by…. Below was today and it’s so hard to get a good picture but this is close. It is a peacock blue-green with purple tips, the oral disc is dark and it has developed some white speckles.

It was hanging around with that Black Widow on the first picture but that one has been really declining and I was on here searching for help when I came across this thread. The BW is about the size of a nickel now and will puff out a little in the morning but by late afternoon he’s a tiny shriveled mess. His mouth is firm and it eats a little.

 

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[mythesis]

I bought a rainbow about 2.5 months ago at about 4". It is now 8-9 inches. It took two days to find its spot which happened to be right in the middle of my tank. Great for me! However, it never bubbles up any more. It spreads out wide, long and skinny. Also, it never looks like a rainbow anymore. Does anyone else have BTAs that have lost their bubbles and changed color?

Did you ever figure out what was going on?

 

[vlangel]

This is one of my rainbow BTAs. They mostly reside on a stony plating coral skeletons that is inverted into a pedestal. Mostly they stay put but occasionally one escapes. I love them enough to deal with the inconvenience.

 

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Happy Friday Reefers! Let's keep this thread rolling, I want to see some anemone dominant tanks dropped in the thread!

 

[aztoza]

I bought a rainbow about 2.5 months ago at about 4". It is now 8-9 inches. It took two days to find its spot which happened to be right in the middle of my tank. Great for me! However, it never bubbles up any more. It spreads out wide, long and skinny. Also, it never looks like a rainbow anymore. Does anyone else have BTAs that have lost their bubbles and changed color?

Only added mine a couple weeks ago. It’s puffed up nicely and also took the best spot right in the center of the tank. The tentacles have been lengthening, and I’m guessing that’s what changes the color a little. If I feed it, it bubbles up again and looks rainbow. That’s my hypothesis.

 

[NemLoverSA]

Mine just split into three pieces! Lucky me ......

 

[NemLoverSA]

The three pieces look rainbow-ish but still stringy. I have heard that flow can govern whether they are stringy or bulbous. I don't want to experiment though, cause I don't want my nems to start moving around the tank. Two of the three moved as they split, but settled on a spot rather quickly. I was able to avoid any power head murder and won't be changing my flow as a result.

 

[Scallopking]