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03-20-2008, 05:36 AM
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| | Fire Shrimp
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Myerstown, PA Age: 21
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 |  BTA on zoas...help...
my BTA which has been in one spot for several weeks moved last night, I Just found him with his foot wrapped under the rock with my 60+polyp zoanthid colony, he is touching a few(like 10-20) of them, should I worry about this, or will they be ok
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03-20-2008, 06:11 AM
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| | Zoanthid
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: CT
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I'm not sure if they will be ok or not, b/c I don't have any corals yet. I did tell you that he would move around anytime he felt like it, right? My BTA has been maybe 6 weeks in my tank and has moved around to every rock. I'm still hesistant to get any corals that a BTA could harm with it in there. I'll probably end up bringing the BTA back to the LFS when I do decide to get some corals, especially since the clowns still have not taken it as a host. My BTA is becoming more of a PITA than I thought, and I think I'd prefer corals over the BTA in the future. I hope your zoanthid colony isn't affected by you BTA, good luck.
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03-20-2008, 06:50 AM
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| | Fire Shrimp
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most of the colony has opened, and I knew it would move, just figured I'd notice it in time to move the corals, I had the corals before the BTA cause I didnt want an anemone at first, now the clowns like it, so its here to stay. mine is pretty small though, like 4-5inch across the disc when hes opened up nicely | |
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03-20-2008, 01:59 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: niles, ohio Age: 32
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My bta killed 2 or 3 leathers.. Hope your zoa's make it.. Not for sure though.... _________ My Tank Thread...... EST. 10/30/07 5.5 gal, 72watt's of pc's, rio skimmer, hob rated at 40 gal, stealth heater, b/w aussie clown, rainford goby, emerald crab, turbo, bumble bee, astrea, and nassarius snails, aussie open brain, pink birdsnest, wallhammer, multiple acro's, numerous monti's, zoa's, palys, ppd's, duncans, mint gsp's, reg gsp's, blue clove polyps, grn bali slimer, and tons of ppl sponges. | |
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03-20-2008, 02:03 PM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Maine Age: 35
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You may want to manually remove bta from zoa colony and place in an area without many corals and then feed regularly to encourage the anemone to stay put. | |
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03-20-2008, 02:17 PM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 59
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Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetriden76  my BTA which has been in one spot for several weeks moved last night, I Just found him with his foot wrapped under the rock with my 60+polyp zoanthid colony, he is touching a few(like 10-20) of them, should I worry about this, or will they be ok |
Hummm, found just the opposite in my experience...   Anemone approaching zoa colony  Anemone touching zoa colony  Anemone jerking back
Further discovered that a good trick for keeping an anemone in a certain area was accomplished by surrounding it with zoa's.
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03-20-2008, 02:41 PM
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| | Panda Puffer
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Tatamy, PA Age: 15
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i would guess, because zoas kick a powerful punch when talking about poisons.... | |
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03-20-2008, 02:43 PM
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| | Fire Shrimp
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Myerstown, PA Age: 21
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well they seem fine so I guess I'll leave him be, I try to not move stuff as much as possible...but they certainly havent repelled it yet...I think they will be ok now, I was freaking out this morning though | |
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03-20-2008, 02:48 PM
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| | Fire Shrimp
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Myerstown, PA Age: 21
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here, got a pic of them...you can see the zoas closed, hes not opened up as much cause he is against the rock, but the color looks great and I fed him a small piece of fish about a week ago. | |
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03-20-2008, 06:16 PM
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| | Feather Duster
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: nazareth pa
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well sweetriden my bta moved by my 30 to 40 yellow button polyps and stung them now i have like 10 the rest of them died and rotted of the rock lets just say bta not in fish tank anymore
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