I had nothing but problems with my RBTA for the better part of a year. The first one I got launched itself in to a power head and turned itself in to soup. The second one I got when it was small, and it grew so quickly that it was too big for the little rock it had perched on. After that, it motored around the entire tank for weeks, I had to rescue it from a frog spawn (or the frogspawn from it, I couldn't tell) at least three times. All the while, my cinnamon clowns pretended it wasn't there. Finally it completely disappeared for three weeks. I thought it was dead, only to show up one day sulking under a rock, a shadow of it's original size. I can only assume it split in two, but I've never found the other half.
It finally found a rock near where the clowns always hung out with lots of holes in it. It anchored it's foot so deep in to one, I don't think I could remove it if I tried. The clowns started hosting in it even though the female was 3 times the size of the nem. The clowns have been feeding it nearly every day since, and it's twice the size it was when it split. The clowns also started laying eggs under a nearby rock ledge, and don't go more than a couple days without a brood.
When it works out, it's really freaking cool. But it's a total game of chance as to whether it will work out or not. Thankfully it never killed anything, and it never damaged itself, but I know that was always a possibility.
Now if only I could get it's tentacles to bubble again! They haven't since it split.
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