Different BTA’s

[John3]

I’m pretty new to owning a RBTA and I have seen a few different variety’s sold and talked about. Some are more garden variety and some more rare fetching hundreds. I wanted to see if we could have a thread devoted to showing some of the different types and if you have some extra info on it like lineage, or history that would be cool to read about.

 

[ciscomania]

Colorado sunburst from elite reef

 

[azreeftank]

 

[Zack K]

I’ll play. It is no Colorado Sunburst or Black Widow, but it sure is an eye catcher.

-Zack, who has 3 if you want one.

 

[Rufus’ goofs]

I’ll play. It is no Colorado Sunburst or Black Widow, but it sure is an eye catcher.

-Zack, who has 3 if you want one.

Those are pretty sweet looking!
You say you have 3? Could you let one go?

 

[Rufus’ goofs]

This is just a BTA I picked up in Seattle.
No price demanding name or anything. Just picked it out of a colander.

 

[Zack K]

Those are pretty sweet looking!
You say you have 3? Could you let one go?

I can. PM me if interested!
-Zack

 

[Lovemyreef2015]

My two rainbow BTAs that are in a 13.5 fluval nano.

 

[John3]

Wow, some really nice BTA’s!

I got to thinking abut this because I visited a lfs who does buy some of his stock from customers. He had about 20 BTA’s in a basket but I would say 3-4 clearly different colorings. I asked and he said they came from 3 different peoples tanks. I dove in and picked a smaller one out and I’m really happy with it.

While doing some research here I came across some of the different named ones. I really like the black widows and some of the the named ones. I’m still happy with mine but I was amazed at how different the coloring can be on these.