Bubble tip anemone hiding

[Mattc123]

Hey everyone! I got a green BTA delivered yesterday and after putting it in, it was moving around quite a bit and it's foot was firmly attached to the rock work but it was looking quite deflated which I assume was normal after shipping overnight. Upon searching the entire tank for it all night and morning I finally found it sandwiched between some rocks. He clearly can't survive there without light and I'm just wondering if I should leave him there for now or try and move him, and he still looks pretty deflated. I've included 3 pictures of where he managed to hide.
My parameters are
Salinity- 1.024
Temp- 77.2 with a range of 77-78
Nitrate- 4.11
PH- 8.3
Phosphate- .12
DKH- 7.6
Ammonia-0 (I hope bc the red sea kit is a little hard to tell but I'm pretty sure it's 0)
Nitrite- 0
My light is a fluval marine 3.0 light and I have another one on the way with my lights at about 45% on all channels except white and blue which are at 65% and 80% consecutively.

 

[biecacka]

He will be okay. He can expand outwards and get the light he needs. They will move until they find a place that is suitable for them.
I would be more concerned about the newness of the tank, the white rocks lead me to believe it is a newer tank. Many people have better luck with anemones is an established system. That isn’t to say you wouldn’t have luck with yours, just most people recommend them in a more established system as they can be finicky at times.
But, don’t worry about it hiding like that, it’ll pop out and get light if it’s happy there. If not, it’ll move. Then move again and again…..mine moves at will and is currently killing my cyphastrea because it sits right next to and stings it. Won’t move. But that is the risk we take with putting anemones in our tanks, they move and are silent killers of other corals. I’m actually going to try and remove the cyphastrea and relocate it.
Good luck with yours buddy! Keep us posted


corey

 

[Shibaken3]

anemone needs to be put into a mature tank to thrive. I wish you good luck on the anenome survival.

 

[Mattc123]

He will be okay. He can expand outwards and get the light he needs. They will move until they find a place that is suitable for them.
I would be more concerned about the newness of the tank, the white rocks lead me to believe it is a newer tank. Many people have better luck with anemones is an established system. That isn’t to say you wouldn’t have luck with yours, just most people recommend them in a more established system as they can be finicky at times.
But, don’t worry about it hiding like that, it’ll pop out and get light if it’s happy there. If not, it’ll move. Then move again and again…..mine moves at will and is currently killing my cyphastrea because it sits right next to and stings it. Won’t move. But that is the risk we take with putting anemones in our tanks, they move and are silent killers of other corals. I’m actually going to try and remove the cyphastrea and relocate it.
Good luck with yours buddy! Keep us posted


corey

Thank you for the in depth response Corey! The tank is going on about 3 months old now and I know it's pretty young but I had pretty good luck with the nem in my tank from years ago in a few month old system so I'm hoping for that again. I'm also hoping he doesn't sting my acan when he finally decides to come out

 

[Mattc123]

anemone needs to be put into a mature tank to thrive. I wish you good luck on the anenome survival.

I've had very good luck with a BTA in a tank this age before especially with feeding shrimp so I'm hoping for a similar experience.

 

[jsker]

Salinity- 1.024
Temp- 77.2 with a range of 77-78
Nitrate- 4.11
PH- 8.3
Phosphate- .12
DKH- 7.6

This look like a really new system? I would suggest slowing down and waiting a bit before added anything except fish and a cleanup crew to help with the cycle.

I would also suggest
Salinity between a 1.025 to 1.026
Temp is ok. I run mine at a 78.4
Nitrate a off the chart and should be down around a .15 to .20
Phosphates between .04 to .06
DKH is fine. I run mine between a 7.6 to 7.8.

 

[Mattc123]

This look like a really new system? I would suggest slowing down and waiting a bit before added anything except fish and a cleanup crew to help with the cycle.

I would also suggest
Salinity between a 1.025 to 1.026
Temp is ok. I run mine at a 78.4
Nitrate a off the chart and should be down around a .15 to .20
Phosphates between .04 to .06
DKH is fine. I run mine between a 7.6 to 7.8.

There are multiple fish in the system right now along with a clean up crew and the tank is about 3 months running now. I know that's relatively new but I've had luck before with a system of similar age and the reason the rock is still bright white is because I was trying to keep algae to a minimum with a short light cycle since I started until I got corals and such. Is nitrate really that high? I've always run my tanks pretty high on nitrate and never had problems. I'll attach a picture of my nem from years ago

 

[Mattc123]

Update- I moved the rock to check on it and it seems to be doing slightly better than it was but it's still extremely small but that may just be how they come from where I bought it. Any thoughts?

 

[j.falk]

Help with RBTA

My RBTA anenome has been like this for 2 weeks. Hes in a bad spot to feed him and and cant get him out of there. Can he survive there? Hes not gettin a whole lot of light there and i cant feed him there.

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[Nano_Man]

Let me tell you that I keep several BTA and they do there own thing . No point moving rock or placing them in a place you like. They find there own happy place. Your nem is hiding it will come back out could be a day a week a month when it is ready. A young tank decreases your chance of success with nems . Good luck hopefully everything will go fine