I Believe I've Solved The Bubble Tip Mystery

[jd371]

I've had my RBTA for almost 3 years now. In that time it's lost it's bubbles and split a couple of times now and I'm running out of real estate.

 

[Jason mack]

No obvious improvements yet !!!!

 

[Dburr1014]

My current men always has bubbles. Some days larger than others but always present none the less and I only feed it meaty stuff.

 

[instantaquatics]

Following along

 

[don_chuwish]

My current men always has bubbles. Some days larger than others but always present none the less and I only feed it meaty stuff.

What’s your usual pH?

 

[JasPR]

I burned my finger on the stove several times over the winter. Each time when I looked up in pain, I noticed a squirrel on my front lawn. Therefore squirrels cause burned thumbs? Don’t think so?

 

[James M]

I burned my finger on the stove several times over the winter. Each time when I looked up in pain, I noticed a squirrel on my front lawn. Therefore squirrels cause burned thumbs? Don’t think so?

What ?

 

[NemNation]

I have 20 in one tank. Some bubble some do not. Any theory related to light/flow/ph is debunked in my opinion. I have one bubbled directly next to one that is not. I have splits where some are inches away bubbled while the other half is not. I have some that literally are partly bubbled and partly long tentacled. For some reason the way I wrote this reminds me of a Dr. Sues story. Happy Anemone reefing folks!

 

[Vibrant Orange Zoanthids]

I will post the results right here!

Quite the specimen.

 

[Vibrant Orange Zoanthids]

What I meant is feeding it algea rather than meaty foods might give them bubble tips

Makes more sense. Possibly. I want others to try it out as well.

 

[Vibrant Orange Zoanthids]

I think you simply had a starving anemone. I can feed mine huge chunks of shrimp or whatever. They have incredible appetites.

It's possible. I feed my anemones at least twice a week and the clownfish will give it extra in between though.

 

[Dburr1014]

What’s your usual pH?

8.2/8.4

 

[Dragonreef202]

I feed my lps corals spectrum pellets sometimes. I never target feed them I may start back doing so now.

 

[don_chuwish]

8.2/8.4

;Meh Jealous - I can never keep mine above 7.9

 

[Dirty_Birdy]

Def gonna try this!

 

[Dirty_Birdy]

Gonna have to try this

 

[427HISS]

I don't know if we'll ever find out for sure. Same questions reguarding why they split, happy, sad, parents that have a lot of sex.....may never know.

 

[Amoo]

@Amoo thoughts?

It's not uncommon to see completely bleached out BTAs with massive amounts of bubbles....

 

[Ardeus]

I have a tank with over 30 BTA's and I can see that the anemones closer to the top have bubbles and even in a single anemone, the top tentacles bubble up more than the lower ones.

 

[Sshannon]

Interesting. Mine had no bubbles from the lfs, but within a week of bringing it home, it developed bubbles. The lfs had much lower lighting than I did and less current.