stange BTA

[saltn00b]

so i get a nice sized BTA from SWF.com, its about 7" diameter. immediately lock himself in, and over about a weeks time finds his way over to a semi covered cave, and accepts my GSM clown as a host. since then i have noticed that his tentacles no longer have the appearance of a BTA's that one would expect. they are mostly not bulbous anymore, and more closely resemble long thin tentacles like what you would find on a small LTA.
i have never seen any posts on this and i just dont get it. my one thought is that because it is in a little cave it extended them to reach out and get more surface area hitting the direct light, which it does get a fair amount of. :notsure: :help:

other then that he seems very healthy
water quality is all good, nitrates are about 20 tho.

 

[crox]

Can you post a pic?

 

[saltn00b]

yes i will tonight

 

[saltn00b]

ok here are a few pics. the first 2 shots are from april 10th, and the tentacles still retained some bulbousness (word?). the second two shots are from tonight, april 18th. they are stretched even longer and thinner. also what is weird is that he seems to have found his 'spot'. although he does move from it, retract into the cave and then come back. in the last pics you can see that it looks sort of open and stretching over the rock like it is trying to move , and in hurt or tear itself in the process....
any suggestions would be nice. :help:

 

[thomas712]

Not to worry about the tentacles, several of mine have been long and thin. However the surface of your anemone is really streched out as if it were splitting already. Check that out.

 

[saltn00b]

hi thomas, yes it is very large surface area. you can see the whole 'inner circle' around the mouth , without tentacles, with no real problems. i wasnt sure what that meant. you think that is a sign of splitting?

 

[thomas712]

Maybe not. I took another look at the pics. The last pic it seems the tetacles dissapear at the bottom of the pic, it just seemed to stretch out in a line rather than curve into a circle, but I see better in the first pic where it is curving around. He does seem like a rather nice speciman, large and healthy.

 

[saltn00b]

so he seems healthy even though he is openned very wide and 'loose' as opposed to bunching his bubbles together packed tightly like in the first pic?
also in the first pic, in the very center, and a little bit down, you can see a triangular peak of my LR. 8 days later in the last pic he has moved onto that rock and stretched itself over that jagged peak. you can see the anenome stretched very thin right over that part of the LR in the 4th pic just to the left of the tentacles in the middle. will they pull themselves over rough terrain, damaging themselves, or do they know whats best when it comes to traversing rock without injury?

 

[thomas712]

Usually if something isn't quite to their liking they bunch up the tentacles, in this case he is in the cave but reaching with his tentacles toward the light, this should be no problem.
Also they can traverse the terrain quite well without damaging themselves to much its a matter of how closely they grab hold to an object at the time, when it finds the right spot it will glue itself down quite well.
Thomas