Purple long tentacle anemone help!

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I got a PLTA I've had it three weeks and he won't stay put/ hasn't attached  he was open puffed up and mouth closed. He looks good but moves every two days, and today he gut sucked in a circ. pump. I  think he will survive he just got a little hair cut. He doesn't ever move up the rock he just moves back and forth behind the rock work making me think its not lack of light. My RBTA looks awesome and hasn't moved . I need some insight! Help

 

[chuckm]

They like a substantialy deep sand bed, i don't know how you have your 20lbs of sand distributed in the tank, in one corner or so?....They do like DSB's.  RBT'S don't affix themselves below the sand bed.  Perhaps a conatiner w/ sand or gravel may make him stay.

Confuscius say- rope made from anemones is very slippery!
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[AdInfinitum]

They like their base buried but mine have always been happ if they can find a spot where their foot can be deep between some rocks (also protected) so they can extend from there into very high light and flow when they wish. They spread out right at the surface under 250watt halides and always end up staying right in front of the return or the current at the overflow.

Mine have never been happy with BTA's in the tank but OK with Sebae's but I know others with the opposite situation.

BTW...if it settles in it can get to 2 feet in diameter pretty quickly so if it's in the biocube in your SIG it will be pretty crowded.

 

[Plug and play]

It's not in my bioCube it's in my Red Sea max 250 and I have  3-4" sugar sand base. I've read that they like deep fine sand so thought I had a good setup for it.

 

[Duke]

+1, it's likely the lta will not do well housed with a bta.

 

[Plug and play]

That sucks! I've wrapped my circ pumps with sponge/filter cloth for the time being until I decide what to do.

 

[Plug and play]

What do I do? Is there anything I can do to make him happy in the tank with a RBTA?

 

[Duke]

What do I do? Is there anything I can do to make him happy in the tank with a RBTA?

i dont have any first hand experience, its just i've read that mixing certain species usually doesn't work.. they will have a sort of chemical warfare with each other, you could try running carbon and changing it often,  place then far apart from each other, and make sure it has a good spot if can bury its foot in the sand.

 

[Plug and play]

I am running carbon but its cheap carbon would chemi pure help?

 

[Duke]

I am running carbon but its cheap carbon would chemi pure help?

not sure, how are they looking? its possible you will get lucky and it will just work out..

 

[Plug and play]

RBTA looks great so does the LTA but he wont settle/attach

 

[shipwreck]

Can you reduce the flow in the tank for a day?  He might just not be able to get settled if the flow is two high. Also try using some rock to damn up some sand to a deeper depthand see if he likes that area

 

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I do have a ton of flow.I tried that when I first put him in he didnt settle and my sps' didnt seem happy so I turned them back on. Ill try again, I also tried the rocks also failed but will try tonight again.

 

[AdInfinitum]

RBTA looks great so does the LTA but he wont settle/attach

By that you don't mean he's let go and is floating do you? 

It's just crawling around the glass/rocks etc. and won't stay put right? If it has folded up it's foot and is bobbing around that is full escape mode hoping for the tides to take it somewhere else or it's foot was damaged when you got it.

Water param's are all good?? Is the BTA huge or a colony of many? Any other aggressive tank mates like Euphyllia sp. (torch, elegance, frogspawn etc.).  Don't know where you got it but, it didn't get lifted out of the water while transferring, did it?

This might be opposite to some of the advice, but mine have never dug into the sand bed first.  They attach to the glass or a piece of rock, then once they are where they want to be, they work their foot down the rock and into the sand bed.  So, hopefully, once it has picked a rock, you need to make sure that it will find a nice sand bed at the base so that it will settle there. 

Not trying to be negative...no really I'm not...but LTA's are fish eaters like the big carpets but with more reach.  Clowns and large fish only in a tank with them unless you're a gambler... Yet another thing that I learned the hard way many years ago... 

 

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Yes he is just behind a rock foot half attached to a rock I saw him stuck to the glass for a bit. He is full and big, even after his run in with the circ pump. He seems to stay in back bottom of tank but  ventures once and a while. Parameters are good sps' lovin life. No aggresive mates buta would hate to looss a fish. I got  him from Bill at AI, wasnt watching if he come out of water

 

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Still not happy..... Getting to the end of my rope. I think I'm going to put him up on the selling or trading posts. Anyone interested.

 

[AdInfinitum]

I would be really tempted to add it to my 200 with my LTA which has never minded other LTA's.

BTW I finally had to give up trying to keep BTA's from my other tank in with my LTA.  People who do it must run tons of carbon or ? because even having them at opposite ends of a six foot tank didn't work for me.

Let me know if you decide it needs to go...

 

[Plug and play]

I'll keep u up to date.......