BTA - fantastic

[Delphinus]

Kim -- about 1/2 to a full piece of shrimp from the grocery store, about once a week is what I was feeding it.

He IS going to be unhappy about the move for a little bit. Even the guy who stayed behind sulked for a good day (and has actually moved a little bit too). Just the stress of being out of the water like that. These guys haven't been huge on wandering, they have on occasion when they've gotten a little big and started crowding themselves, but generally speaking they've stayed put. If the wandering is only for a little bit (like, only a day or two and only a few inches) then he's just making himself comfortable. If the wandering is incessant, though, like, large distances and doesn't stop after a few days then it's something else.... These BTA's are tough little buggers, they've lived through tank crashes where the nitrates have gone tyhrough the roof (>80ppm!), temperatures >86F, float valve disasters where the SG has gone to 1.000 (don't ever try these things, BTW!). So I would expect a little sulking for the next little while, but nothing more than that. Keep me posted on things though, if you wouldn't mind?

Alan -- the best bet for an anemone is to get a division of one, or one from a fellow reefer who's had it for a while. If you're going to try a store bought one, though, it's best to wait until the tank is a solid half-year to a year old. Store-bought anemones are STRESSED (from the collection process, handling, etc. -- and where do wholesalers and retailers put their anemones? All into the same tank -- and the worst thing you can do to a stressed anemone, IMHO, is put it in a tank full of other stressed anemones .... and they wonder why anemones have such a high initial mortality rate!). So a store-bought-stressed anemone really needs a really solid environment where it can try to heal itself without undue external pressures.

[ 13 May 2002, 12:56: Message edited by: delphinus ]