Stretch Armstrong Anem

[mnat]

Our BTA had found a nice home in a cave in a piece of live rock, but then we reshuffled the live rock. Apparently he did not like where he was so he took a walkabout. I came home from work and saw him trying to decide if the glass or the live rock was better to mount too.

 

[Sandee]

LOVE IT! That's a GREAT shot! If there was a APOTM ... he'd get my vote!

 

[Nickjr000]

I like when they go on the glass, looks cool and leaves your rock open

 

[Scottyrock]

wow man... awesome. do you have clowns that host him?

 

[njstillwell]

dude that thing looks like the blob...

 

[mnat]

I had two picassos that were hosting it but one got sucked into a powerhead. The remaining one does hot the anem. I was away for the past four days and now he has settled into the middle of the liverock.

 

[Dave]

I keep coming back to this thread to check out that pic. It still makes me laugh ;D

 

[bayondai]

What color BTA is that considered?

 

[Jcurry@wesketch]

unfortunately it has lost it's zooanthellae (bleached). But still looks fairly healthy other than that. I would recommend a light feeding everyday.

 

[mnat]

We had a bad heat event in the tank (lost air conditioning for 4 days while we were away and the apartment went to 88 degrees and the tanks 84-85. The anem bleached out, but is coloring up nicely. Right now it is wedged in the rocks and bubbled up more than I have ever seen it. We dose a bit of phyto for the gorgonian so hopefully that helps. The clown feed the anem daily and I also try and make sure to get some food back there. The anem will close up completely if you feed it blackworms, loves them.

 

[Jcurry@wesketch]

88 WOW lucky it survived. It will be interesting to see what color it turns out to be? Think it come back red, green or some other color?

 

[mnat]

That would be awesome if it came back another color but the tint is has now is green. The day after I added the mp10, the anem bubbled up huge and has been very happy. The power head was the only thing I changed at all it the tank but I don't know if it is more coincidence or causation.

 

[mnat]

Just thought I would give an update on how are bleached out/walking around anem.

 

[Dave]

Looking good...thanks for the update.

 

[NikkiT]

thanks, we are glad he is doing better. . . we just wish he hadn't walked over and stung our bird of paradise last weekend