RBTA question (vomiting)

Fink · Jan 10, 2021

So i've had a RBTA for about two months, and I'm not sure why this hasn't come up yet (for me), but it's the first time I've seen it. I've got a pretty decent (little bigger than a softball when inflated) RBTA. He always eats greedily (about a third of a piece of uncooked shrimp) every 3-4 days. I've never done a water change on a feeding day, but they happened to coincide today. About 6 hours after I fed him I did a 15% water change and he spit out a little over half of the food. He always gets a little cranky during water changes (closing up, shifting slightly left or right) but I've never seen this reaction.

Is a RBTA vomiting in response to a water change something I should be worried about?

Thanks!

F i s h y · Jan 10, 2021

Stress while eating will cause this reaction

Fink · Jan 10, 2021

Fishy65 said:
Stress while eating will cause this reaction

That's kind of what I figured. He wasn't done digesting and I ticked him off with the water change

F i s h y · Jan 10, 2021

Fink said:
That's kind of what I figured. He wasn't done digesting and I ticked him off with the water change

Correct. Considering nems are majority water, they will inflate and deflate and inflate when you do water changes to clean themselves out and get back to what I consider a homeostasis... meaning when he did this he also cleaned out his gut.