Bta Help

[littlebuck]

i have a bubble tip and about an hour ago he was fine and doing good. just went out to look at him and hes all closed up is there something wrong with it? I cant get a pic on here beacuse i dont have a program to shrink them down but i can take a pic and e-mail it if soemone could help me out i would appricare it. Thank you

 

[new fishy]

I have 2 bubble anenomes and they seem to do that if they don't have enough light and if they are eating they will do this. Did it attach to anything? If its still attached I woudn't worry.

:happyfish

 

[littlebuck]

how long have you had ur tank up and running and how long have you had ur BTA?

 

[littlebuck]

lighting wise i have enought i have over 10 watts per gallon so i know its not that

 

[kindbuds2k]

how did you get your watts per gallon, and you can use windows paint. And you can resize it. The program in is your start menu under accessories.

 

[nazz13]

Mine will not come out from under the rocks into the light.its a buety too cant figure it out. :help:

 

[thomas712]

Ok Littlebuck Is this your little guy doing this. About what time of day is he doing this? Lights on?, lights off? did you just dose the tank with anything?
Actually I've seen this before, mine do it occationally. not sure why. I'll ad a pic of mine doing pretty much the same thing.
Thomas

 

[thomas712]

:notsure: Only other time I've seen them close up like this is after lights out, or when they get directly nailed with alkalinity additives.

 

[littlebuck]

Yes i just got done feeding, Lights were on, And after a couple hours he started to open back up and had a chunk of something inside of him like he was eating so i take it thats what happens when they are eating. I just have never seen him do that which to me was a little weird. But i think its doing fine now lights are not on yet so hes kinda shrunk up anyways but what do you think it is? Was it do to me moving him at all? or was it something that he ate the messed him up? Thanks for your help

 

[littlebuck]

Originally Posted by kindbuds2k
how did you get your watts per gallon, and you can use windows paint. And you can resize it. The program in is your start menu under accessories.

Wel if you take i have a 29 gallon tank and have 300 watts of light that works out to be like 10.34 watts per gallon. I believe that is how its working. Trust me you can see it down the street at night and all my neighbors have asked what the hell it is LOL.

 

[speg]

When they close up like in the first pic thomas shown... they usually are trying to squeeze out a big turd.
Anemones shrink up quite often... you should be ready for that kinda thing to happen because it happens all the time
I have a BTA that is around 18 inches long and he is very hard to miss in my small tank... but sometimes he shrivels up into a little ball of gross thats only around 3-4 inches long.. its normal.

 

[littlebuck]

OK well thank you, that might be what was on him when he was trying to open back up. after hearing that i see what that thign was that was coming out of him. LOL thats a great way to tell hes taking a poop LOL but once again thank you.