Bubble tip anemone question.

[squezhappy]

Sure this is a question all of you have had or seen. What's the deal with bubble tip anemones not having bubble tips? I bought a rbta at a l.f.s. about 6 months ago and all the tips were bubbled up. After a week or so in my tank, no more bubble tips. I read somewhere not enough light. I'm pretty sure if I turn them up some other corals will get to much. All the most commonly tested perameters are good. Any suggestions?

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[crabbysd]

Sigh. few are sure on this. High flow, nutrients and availability of organics in the wc. etc.
My RBTA bubbles less now that my clown is hosting btw.
Also how much light do you have. Id bet a dollar you could safely add more.

[CMD2213]

High flow kine doesn't bubble much lower flow it bubbles so try flow adjustment but that's just 1 of many reasons

[FDdragon]

It's hard to say. Mine were bubbled up, then went straight...then bubbled up again. But I didn't change anything.
They bubble up pretty good now and I don't have a really strong flow on them. My lighting is probably around 60-70% on colors and 50% on whites

[squezhappy]

Thanks for the suggestion guys. I'm going to try lower flow and higher lighting, may have to wait on on lowering the flow cuz I've recently been fighting a red slime algae problem. Don't really understand that one eather, phosphate are 0 and nitrate 0 and always have been, but that's for a different thread.

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[davocean]

I don't know if anyone knows why for certain, some just do that.
FWIW I personally prefer a RBTA unbubbled and long flowing.

[greg619]

AFAIK phosphate is never zero. You need a better test to read the true value. I thought mine was zero for a long time using the basic test tube kits. Switched to Hanna ULR Phosphorus meter and that really changed my view.


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[knightnsd]

Sure this is a question all of you have had or seen. What's the deal with bubble tip anemones not having bubble tips? I bought a rbta at a l.f.s. about 6 months ago and all the tips were bubbled up. After a week or so in my tank, no more bubble tips. I read somewhere not enough light. I'm pretty sure if I turn them up some other corals will get to much. All the most commonly tested perameters are good. Any suggestions?

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I am fairly certain it has nothing to do in a good system with any of the light, food, waste issues at all. I have had them for years and split them from the same stock, and depending on where they are in my tank (the same system) some of them have bubble tips and others are more long tentacled. I have given up explaining that to people on the boards asking for a BTA and then looking at some of mine and commenting" I want one with bubble tips." I would like to see BTA's in the ocean in various conditions and see if they all are are bubble tipped, my guess is much like a tank it depends on current they are in. My personal thought, long tentacles are better in stronger current for grasping food. It may have something to do with their age as well as they approach splitting and need more food, but either way some of mine are bubble tipped and others are tentacled from the same clones.

If yours splits you may see one bubble up versus the other depending on the system and where it attaches, buying another wont really change the issue as it will morph depending on your system and where it attaches so it remaining bubbled may just be a result of where it is in your tank or possibly its age.

[knightnsd]

The picture above is from this morning one of the smaller clones in the top right is bubble tipped next to the longer tentacled anems that are inches apart. I don't worry about their tentacle forms but their general appearance and color as the sign of their health

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[squezhappy]

Mine look about the same. Guess there health

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[greg619]

For what it's worth, mine tends to have more "bubbly" tentacles in calmer flow.


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