BTA Still Wont Attach After TWO Weeks!

savetheocean · Nov 23, 2017

My BTA has not attached and its been two weeks. I am actually starting to get a little bit worried. It doesnt even try to attach to the rocks I put it on and it just falls off upsidedown to the sand. My clowns are hosting it. What do I do? Some slime comes off of it every once in a while. It did attach when I put it in when I got it but later it just fell off. The foot is not sticky when I touch it. It has no cuts and the whole anemone does look really good. What do I do?

I have the SBReefLights

savetheocean · Nov 23, 2017

Im doing a 15% waterchange now

Cyclone-G · Nov 23, 2017

Reduce the flow. He is likely having trouble finding a calm spot to settle into. You could even turn off the powerheads over night and it should attach. As long as the mouth isn't starting to turn inside out your okay.

savetheocean · Nov 23, 2017

Cyclone-G said:
Reduce the flow. He is likely having trouble finding a calm spot to settle into. You could even turn off the powerheads over night and it should attach. As long as the mouth isn't starting to turn inside out your okay.

Okay, The flow is slow enough that its just sitting there on the sand. Im going to move it next to a rock in a second. The poor clownfish is moving around all day with it.

reef lover · Nov 23, 2017

I would either isolate the nem or remove the clowns. U could put the nem in a acclimation box with some lr to give it a chance to attatch without being beaten by the clowns.

savetheocean · Nov 24, 2017

reef lover said:
I would either isolate the nem or remove the clowns. U could put the nem in a acclimation box with some lr to give it a chance to attatch without being beaten by the clowns.

Yesterday it was attached and it looked real good and the clowns were hosting but overnight it fell off the rock. This has happened every time I think its going to hold on.