Rbta won't eat tho? ?

reefaman · Sep 11, 2016

My rbta that I got about a month and a week ago wasnt doing do good in thw beginning mainly becsuse my light wasnt strong enough I just upgraded my light system about two days ago so now he is looking a lot better but since he has turned around he won't eat is there any ideas on this? I'm going to try some frozen shrimp they seemed to always like that but I have been trying omega 1 super carnivore it has mysis shrimp blood worms and brine shrimp

reefaman · Sep 11, 2016

cromag27 · Sep 11, 2016

Stop trying to feed it and let it get used to your new light.

Milkmanskid · Sep 11, 2016

You also don't HAVE to feed it. It should get enough from light alone. If you try to hard you can stress it out. My rbta was bleached and the same thing happened. It wouldn't eat, so I didn't force it. Its well on the road to recovery

cromag27 · Sep 11, 2016

What light did you upgrade to, and how tall is your tank? it's not the anemone that necessarily needs a lot of light, but rather the zooxanthellae that lives inside it. it feeds of the algae.

reefaman said:
My rbta that I got about a month and a week ago wasnt doing do good in thw beginning mainly becsuse my light wasnt strong enough I just upgraded my light system about two days ago so now he is looking a lot better but since he has turned around he won't eat is there any ideas on this? I'm going to try some frozen shrimp they seemed to always like that but I have been trying omega 1 super carnivore it has mysis shrimp blood worms and brine shrimp

reefaman · Sep 12, 2016

cromag08 said:
What light did you upgrade to, and how tall is your tank? it's not the anemone that necessarily needs a lot of light, but rather the zooxanthellae that lives inside it. it feeds of the algae.

I upgraded to a 165 mars aqua fixture it a 75 gallon depth is 18 inches and thanx for the help and input ....he ate a little last night I had to place it exactly over his mouth