Mixing wild caught and aquacultured BTA's?

[NEM Aquatics]

Hey all,

I have a few tanks with varying types of anemones. Recently, my smaller tank saw some issues with either peppermint shrimp, and/or chemical warfare between my black widow anemones and RBTA's. Long story short, shrimp were removed, one wild caught BTA was removed, and two aquacultured RBTA's died after thriving for the past year. Now, I have almost everything in my main 180g display tank. This includes three wild-caught BTA's and about a half dozen large aquacultured RBTA's. Black widows are still in my smaller tank doing fine.

The wild caughts are all going through some serious stress related color loss, as I've only had them a few weeks, which I expected. However, when moving one of them into my display tank, it rolled itself into a cave, and is now sitting right up against one of my larger RBTA's. Is there a risk that they might start stinging each other, being captive bred/wild caught? And if so, will they have the sense to move away from each other? I did a water change last night, so everything was still a bit deflated this morning. But this specific wild caught is almost white due to stress, and I know the last thing it needs is to be stung over and over. Also of note, I do have a maroon clown that is hosting in both the RBTA and wild caught.

 

[blaxsun]

I had a pair of BTAs that recently crawled into a cave; one came out right away and the other took a few days to throw in the towel and return to its previous haunt. Both were aquacultured, though.

 

[NEM Aquatics]

I had a pair of BTAs that recently crawled into a cave; one came out right away and the other took a few days to throw in the towel and return to its previous haunt. Both were aquacultured, though.

I ended up picking it up and moving it last night, as both it and the RBTA looked extremely unhappy. Happy to report this morning that the wild caught nem is more or less out, though has crawled next to a group of my four massive RBTA's, as well as my mini/max. So we'll see how that goes. The RBTA it was originally next to was fully out this morning as well.