Moving my BTA

[Joevember]

So I got a free baby black widow BTA as a gift from my LFS for messing up my order. I got it mounted to a piece of rubble, and want it to move off of the rubble onto my rockwork. I 'mounted' the rubble to my rock with a rubber band and waited a couple days for it to move onto the rock. It looks like it is trying to, but it seems like it can't get its foot attached to it. I know BTAs are notorious for not doing what you want them to do, but is there anything I can do to get it off and onto the rock?

 

[James M]

IMO it better to leave it be than to stress it out but you could try the ice in a bag trick

 

[Joevember]

IMO it better to leave it be than to stress it out but you could try the ice in a bag trick

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking at the moment. Since the rubble is seperate from the main rock I don't know how if it can get its foot to bridge the gap and move off.

Also what is the ice in a bag trick? I'm familiar with it.

 

[Jason mack]

Another way is too hold them upside down ...or try putting a power head in front of it ...they will soon move if they dont like it ...

 

[James M]

U put a ice cube in a sandwich bag and try to get the ice cube under the foot and the cold will usually cause it to detach.

 

[Jason mack]

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking at the moment. Since the rubble is seperate from the main rock I don't know how if it can get its foot to bridge the gap and move off.

Also what is the ice in a bag trick? I'm familiar with it.

Its simple..seal ice in a bag ...and rub lightly on the foot ...but have enough ice on hand ...it melts fast ....

 

[kirbuno]

Careful with the ice. I stressed mine to the point that it didn't recover using ice.

 

[Joevember]

Careful with the ice. I stressed mine to the point that it didn't recover using ice.

I'm just waiting on it. I'm not really comfortable risking injuring or stressing it at this point. It's as wide as a quarter so I don't think it would be able to recover if I did anything like that.

 

[kirbuno]

They like light, partially shade it if possible so that it is brighter on the side of which you would like it to move.

 

[emilios_reeftank]

IMO just let it go off of the ruble itself man I wouldn't mess with it in any form or fashion. I'm kinda confused though whats your purpose of wanting it to detach from the rubble? Trust me the BTA will go where it wants too never where you want it to lol.

 

[Joevember]

IMO just let it go off of the ruble itself man I wouldn't mess with it in any form or fashion. I'm kinda confused though whats your purpose of wanting it to detach from the rubble? Trust me the BTA will go where it wants too never where you want it to lol.

I just want the nem on my main rock. The rubble would look weird if I left it on the main scape, so I want to take it out. My plan is to just let things sort themselves out.

 

[Joevember]

Gave up and took it off myself. Just got a syringe with tank water and squirted the foot, and it popped right off the rubble. Took less than a minute and the nem reattached in 30 seconds. Only hard part was getting bitten by my clowns.

 

[James M]

Gave up and took it off myself. Just got a syringe with tank water and squirted the foot, and it popped right off the rubble. Took less than a minute and the nem reattached in 30 seconds. Only hard part was getting bitten by my clowns.

Hopefully it doesn’t move

 

[Joevember]

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