ctniners
04/21/2009, 05:40 PM
Hi guys,
I have had this BTA for over 3 months, I feed it once per week, about a week ago I move it extremely careful along with the rock it was on, I was lucky it was only attached to one rock, so there was no pulling whatsoever.....I moved it because it was touching my sps.....so, to make it happy I fed it the first 3 days in the new spot, it took the silversides like a champ...however, today is his weekly feeding, I gave it some silversides as usual, just now, about 1 hour or so later I noticed that my cleaner shrimp, a nassarius snail and a hermit crab where around his foot...so I looked closer and to my surprise I see they are actually picking the silverside that I fed the anemone!!...it almost looks like it went through the body????
what do I do?,.....the mouth looked good today, the tentacles are moving, it is not moving around or stringy...but this def doesnt look good, right?, I would hate to lose him as he was in the tank before any of my corals and my 2 clowns (only fish I have) love him.
Sorry for the rambling...here are the pics I took......thanks for all your help!!
http://i448.photobucket.com/albums/qq201/ctniners/CIMG2652-Edited.jpg
http://i448.photobucket.com/albums/qq201/ctniners/CIMG2648.jpg
http://i448.photobucket.com/albums/qq201/ctniners/CIMG2650.jpg
http://i448.photobucket.com/albums/qq201/ctniners/CIMG2652.jpg
my issue is....that is not normal for food to find its way through his body, right?
I have had this BTA for over 3 months, I feed it once per week, about a week ago I move it extremely careful along with the rock it was on, I was lucky it was only attached to one rock, so there was no pulling whatsoever.....I moved it because it was touching my sps.....so, to make it happy I fed it the first 3 days in the new spot, it took the silversides like a champ...however, today is his weekly feeding, I gave it some silversides as usual, just now, about 1 hour or so later I noticed that my cleaner shrimp, a nassarius snail and a hermit crab where around his foot...so I looked closer and to my surprise I see they are actually picking the silverside that I fed the anemone!!...it almost looks like it went through the body????
what do I do?,.....the mouth looked good today, the tentacles are moving, it is not moving around or stringy...but this def doesnt look good, right?, I would hate to lose him as he was in the tank before any of my corals and my 2 clowns (only fish I have) love him.
Sorry for the rambling...here are the pics I took......thanks for all your help!!
http://i448.photobucket.com/albums/qq201/ctniners/CIMG2652-Edited.jpg
http://i448.photobucket.com/albums/qq201/ctniners/CIMG2648.jpg
http://i448.photobucket.com/albums/qq201/ctniners/CIMG2650.jpg
http://i448.photobucket.com/albums/qq201/ctniners/CIMG2652.jpg
my issue is....that is not normal for food to find its way through his body, right?