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saltymike1
10/11/2013, 06:10 PM
Hi,

i put a RBTA in my 100g tank about 6 months ago and it has slowly been deteriorating. it moved around a little over the first week or 2 but ended up settling in to a nice little nook.

it was feeding on fresh shrimp at first but has since stopped eating, it has paled right out and is white.it then moved itself under a rock ledge upside down and was there for 2 weeks before i flipped the rock upside down so it was out under the lights again.

it has now moved itself to be under another ledge upside down :eek1:

any suggestions.

my lighting is a Pacific Sun Hyperion R2 running on 70%

mike
garygb
10/13/2013, 10:58 PM
Any chance you have a hospital tank set up. Tending to it with no interactions from other tank inhabitants and where you can target feed and keep conditions to its liking might be what's needed.
saltymike1
10/15/2013, 04:34 PM
Any chance you have a hospital tank set up. Tending to it with no interactions from other tank inhabitants and where you can target feed and keep conditions to its liking might be what's needed.

i have a little nano with a few corals on a 1 inch sand bed i could put it in
tkeracer619
10/15/2013, 09:39 PM
Can you post a pic? I would not move it.

It has stopped eating and is white? Is it sticky at all?
saltymike1
10/15/2013, 11:29 PM
Can you post a pic? I would not move it.

It has stopped eating and is white? Is it sticky at all?

i will take a photo when i get home and post it for you.

not eating and is white, not sticky or oozing anything from what i can tell/see.

mike
saltymike1
10/16/2013, 02:33 AM
Ok so this is a pic of my closed RBTA hanging upside down in his cave

http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm205/mikerc4u/null_zps84f13d82.jpg
http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm205/mikerc4u/null_zpsda922a11.jpg
http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm205/mikerc4u/null_zps54491510.jpg

And the tank he's in. This is half way through sunset mode but it doesn't open up much more :(

And what he used to look like
http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm205/mikerc4u/D926E022-4B2A-416A-BFE6-52F1D2E5B3AF-9314-000004F9BAF0B1BE.jpg
http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm205/mikerc4u/0AD4F5D6-6FAE-4F2B-B5DD-97BCADCCFDD2-7237-0000041B275CAB6F.jpg