RBTA 'neighbors' aka placement

[ultimatemj]

So my RBTA has stopped looking for home and settled in with foot in a rock crevice.

So time to move some corals around.

What can be near/around the RBTA?
Leathers? Euphilla?

Any success stories or pics appreciated!

 

[Reefing Madness]

 

[preston469]

Just placed my sunburst next to my flame tip and they are as happy as can be!

 

[Jimbo662]

FYI...RBTA's will at some point decide they need a new home and start roaming. I had mine for about a year and with no changes to my system whatsoever it moved at least 3 times and unfortunately took out corals along the way.

 

[ultimatemj]

Hmm, so no identified neighbors of other species? Simply put BAD it have in a tank with corals???

 

[TriggerThis]

It cannot be around anything else but other anemones.
Any coral near it will be killed.
They are not reef safe for that reason.
I have a gigantic one in my reef tank, and am filling in with corals around it's tentacle perimeter.
However if it decides at some point in the middle of the night to roam around, I will loose thousands of dollars in corals before I wake up that morning.
Fingers crossed it's happy where it's at. Lol

Hope that helps with your decision, FYI, they like high flow and high light with constant water parameters. If they don't get all three of those, they will keep moving around till they find it.

 

[eliramos]

Hmm, so no identified neighbors of other species? Simply put BAD it have in a tank with corals???

basically unless you have a large tank cuz those bad boys get big!
i had a gbta i gave to a friend and it tripled insize in less then 2 months it was insane. he had a 125 long tank and had to get rid of the nem cuz it was starting to sting his corals!

 

[ultimatemj]

Hmm, ok I get the moving around the tank issue, but I'll start with the neighbors I've seen that have not been killed...and are generally fine as long as not being 'sat on'.

GSP, frogspawn, & zoas

Thoughts? Others?

 

[TriggerThis]

Galaxia prolly and my Nem jacks my zoas up. Prolly shrooms

 

[ultimatemj]

Interesting, my zoa garden doesn't show any impact, except when they closed while it crawled across them.

 

[Kirdro]

My RBTA lives next to my Rasta/Fire and Ice Zoa patch, and neither show any signs of stinging or even annoyance with the nem. My mindblowing palys on the other hand didn't survive when the nem decided to walk past them while looking for a new home.