OK so whats wrong with the BTA?

[team2jndd]

My bubble tip anemone, since being in my tank has grown and split 2 times and is doing very well. However, he never actually has bubble tips. Instead, he has elongated tentacles almost like a condi anemone. He looks more like a torch than a BTA and hes making me mad. My corals are beautiful and nothing is wrong with the tank and like I said I have had the corals for a long time and they continue to grow and split so I know they are healthy. Why is it that in the crappy lfs where nothing lives for more than a week, the anemone had bubble tips and in my tank he does not.

 

[viper_930]

There's no proven explanation to why some BTAs have bubbled tips and some do not. IMO it does not reflect on the health of the anemone. My RBTAs usually have bubbled tips, but sometimes they don't.

 

[team2jndd]

It makes me cranky though lol. Theres nothing i can do?

 

[sharkbait9]

Yeah, I can feel your frustration. My RBTA does both, nice fat bubbles with elongated tents in the middle and then some times its long tents on the out side and fat bubbles in the middle and some times just fat bubbles all around. I always assumed it was just it personality, but awesome eater and bright red. HTH good luck.

 

[granny]

My reef reference book 'The Marine Aquaria" states that some species of BTA are more prone to 'bubble' than others, but when searching for food, will elongate their tentacles-or if in too much current will be unlikely to bubble. How much is too much??? HMMM?
My BTA stays bubbled MOST of the time-especially right after I feed it and when the clown is nestled in snugly. The foot of the BTA is sunk deep into a rock crevice and I never see the stem-well sometimes, but rarely, Is your BTA still moving or does it have a spot that it calls home? Do you feed it manually, not just with your lights?

 

[team2jndd]

It wouldnt be so bad if he wasn't splitting all the time. Now I have several of these moving torch corals.

 

[viper_930]

Originally Posted by Granny
My reef reference book 'The Marine Aquaria" states that some species of BTA are more prone to 'bubble' than others
As far as I know, there's only one species, E. quadricolor.

 

[team2jndd]

He has never stopped moving. However, the newest split has left me with one small one that has yet to leave the crevice so im hoping he will remain there.

 

[granny]

Will Run Get My Book-there Are Several Different Ones In There-from Different Locations And Different Colors, Both Tentacles And Stem

 

[viper_930]

I think the author means different strains, because they're all classified in the same species.

 

[granny]

You are probably right. I havent gone back upstairs yet to look in my book-have been reading Bob Fenners web site comments and he does speak of several different colored anemones there-but only references on species the Entacmaea Quadricolor.
Lets see, its Family, Genus, then species-right? Then there are many varieties depending on general appearance and-ummmm cant think of the word I want-need to hit the hay.

 

[viper_930]

Originally Posted by Granny
Lets see, its Family, Genus, then species-right?
That's right.
Kingdom > Phylum > Class > Order > Family > Genus > Species

 

[nereef]

kaliegh puts corn on fat girls' skirts. sorry, couldn't resist.

 

[rujelus22]

I've heard that they will be more likely to bubble if they have a clown host, can't remember what book I read it in though

 

[pclown]

I know a few people who have then that some of theirs bubble up and some dont. Mine does not and he looks very good. I believe that I have read in a book or by a post by Thomas that they dont always bubble up, infact I read that you can have two in the same tank and one may bubble and the other may not.

 

[pclown]

Oh, I have never heard the clown thing but I am not saying it is true or not but I have never heard that.

 

[rujelus22]

Yeah I'm not saying it's true I've never had a bta just sebae and long tentacle but I read it somewhere