Bubble Tip Help

[jbishop]

I have a rose Bubble tip and a while ago he got too close to a powerhead but i shut it off and it retracted. The anemone has been healthy or seems so but has lost all of its bulbs. It now looks more like a LTA and this happened months ago.

Is there anything i can do to get the bulbs back?

Any help that could be given would be great.

 

[APISTOBORELLI]

My bta lost its bubble tips for a few months when I had it. Didn't seem to bother it. I think it has something to do with feeding, mine bubbled alot when it was fed well.

 

[~Flighty~]

They do that and no one knows why. In fact, the majority of BTAs in tanks lose their bubbles. Some of them bubble under high light with good feeding, but most don't. In the wild they do both even anemones right next to each other. So far no one has figured out what is present or missing from our tanks that causes them to bubble so rarely.

 

[jbishop]

Thank you for the information. As long as its happy i guess i will be to

 

[Reefried]

I agree with Flighty (nobody on these boards knows more about anemones), but I swear I read somewhere that someone did an experiment with BTA's and Clowns, and the BTA's with host clowns all had bubble tips, and the ones without a host clown(s) did not...just to put in my $.02, I'm probablly wrong but I thought I'd add that.....just curious Jbishop, do you have host clowns???

 

[smcnally]

but I swear I read somewhere that someone did an experiment with BTA's and Clowns, and the BTA's with host clowns all had bubble tips, and the ones without a host clown(s) did not...just to put in my $.02, I'm probablly wrong but I thought I'd add that.....just curious Jbishop, do you have host clowns???

This wasn't done by anyone here. It was actually an observation someone made on a Discovery Channel show (I think Blue Planet).

 

[ohsweetmadness]

My 2 rbtas are constantly hosted by my clown pair and neither bubble- but I have had green with pink tip btas that were hosted & bubbled before. No rhyme or reason from what I can see...

 

[Joedes3]

My BTA hosts my clowns and does not have bubble tips

 

[Reefried]

This wasn't done by anyone here. It was actually an observation someone made on a Discovery Channel show (I think Blue Planet).

Steve, you are right, it wasn't done here, but now that you mention discovery channel, I think it was Equator, not Blue Planet..

 

[~Flighty~]

Well, in the wild they usually grow in patches of many BTAs that blend together to look like one giant anemone and that patch will be hosting many clownfish damsels and inverts. In these patches, some will bubble and some won't and there is no obvious rhyme or reason.

In captivity it is the same, here is no easy reason that as been found. A research facility in Hawaii got captive ones to bubble again by putting their tank outside in natural sunlight, but it wasn't controlled experiment and others had trouble reproducing the results.

The clown thing certainly doesn't work for most people. I have about 10 btas in various tanks and all have lots of clowns. None of them regularly have bubbles. The time that the are most likely to bubble is when they are well fed, in low flow and the light has gotten brighter than normal (like if I move them, or change a bulb). In higher flow a well fed anemone will get much longer tentacles and not bubble in my experience.

 

[jbishop]

No I don’t have any. I should soon thanks to the board I will also be moving this anemone to a new tank.

Another question about flow.... Should there be a lot? I always thought the anemone would move if unhappy?

Thanks again everyone as always your all a great help.

 

[Firefish]

I have a rose and 2 green BTAS and they have all had bubbles at one time, but none of them have for over a year now.. and they have had a pair of false percs in there for the last 3+ years

 

[Jim Tansey]

I have two RBTA's (split), they both have large bubbles all the time but the ones I had prior to this did not.

Jim