BTA's

[Delphinus]

Haven't seen many BTA's pictured lately so I thought I'd throw some up.

To be honest I'm not sure how many I have at the moment. At least two, but the tentacles make one large matte of anemone it's nearly impossible to tell where one ends and the next begins.

Incidentally, notice the bubble tips forming. It's been some 2-3 years since they did that. In that timeframe I had them under Iwasaki lighting. Before that, they almost always had spherical tentacles. And now that I've switched back to 10000K I see some small sphericals forming particularly on the one on the left.

Having said that, my rose BTA had spherical tentacles for maybe 4 months, then switched to non-bubble. And after the switch back to 10000K that one has not shown any inclination to bubble.

So it must have something to do with the population of zooxanthellae in addition to the variable of lighting (and flow, and feeding patterns, and who knows what else in the myriad of variables in the age-old question of "why do BTA's lose their bubbles"). Anyhow I thought it was an interesting observation worth sharing.

cheers

http://members.shaw.ca/hobiesailor/aquaria/anemones/bta1.jpg
http://members.shaw.ca/hobiesailor/aquaria/anemones/bta2.jpg
http://members.shaw.ca/hobiesailor/aquaria/anemones/bta3.jpg
http://members.shaw.ca/hobiesailor/aquaria/anemones/bta4.jpg
http://members.shaw.ca/hobiesailor/aquaria/anemones/bta5.jpg

[Delphinus]

Can anyone besides me view them? They show up fine for me but I'm told they show up as red X's for some.

[Joe Reefer]

All I see is red x's

[Delphinus]

I use Firefox as my browser. I have no idea why the .jpg's would work in Firefox and not IE.

If anyone knows what I've done wrong ... please enlighten me so I can fix it.

Thanks (and sorry).

Bummer ... so much for showing off some pictures. :frown:

[NanoReef]

just red x for me.

[Manny]

I also use firefox and I can see them just fine. They are beautaful. Is that tank for animones only?

[OCDP]

ditto, red x's for moi

[Delphinus]

Yeah OK I see it now too, they won't load up in IE. They do for me if I load the link itself but not when imbedded into the thread.

I'll look into it (I'll accept hints from anyone who knows what the problem is).

In the meantime, you owe it to youself to stop using IE and upgrade to a real browser. :razz:

[muck]

Try removing one of the "/" after the http:

[Delphinus]

Son of a ..... :eek: :redface:

I'll go crawl under a rock now.

[muck]

weee... it works now.. :razz: :razz:

[christyf5]

so firefox automatically removes the extra "/"?? Because when I cut and pasted the link from firefox into IE it worked fine???

[muck]

They look real nice and healthy!!

so wheres the RBTA.. ?? :mrgreen:

[Delphinus]

I still contend that people should upgrade to a real browser. :lol:

Rose: I didn't think to photograph it. I WAS hoping this could be a "Show off your BTA's thread" but now that there's about 100 messages about fat fingering the URLs. Anyhow, if I get some good shots of it I'll post it.

In the meantime .. um.. "Show off your BTA's!! so I can forget how embarrased I am right now"

[christyf5]

OK back to our regularly scheduled programming.

Those BTA's are gorgeous. I wish they would stay put, then I'd probably get one. With my luck it would cut a swath of death through my field of sps.

Thats an interesting observation about the bubbles on the BTA's. I always sort of wondered about that, mostly because I never see them with the actual bubble tips. :biggrin:

[OCDP]

lol Tony..

That's a nice BTA, it has what appears to be a creamish colour? I have never seen a colour like that before. I'll take a recent pic of my RBTA tonight... I am getting rid of it very soon though and replacing it with a GBTA. It's getting too big !! :exclaim:

[NanoReef]

i like that BTA!!! mine is very smal and my clowns finnaly decided to host it!! yay! looks very good though!

[Joe Reefer]

Old pics but I think this guys pretty cool.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y4/lyohemas/rbta2.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y4/lyohemas/rbta3.jpg

[OCDP]

Man oh man , love the bubble tips.. how on earth do you get it to bubble up like that !haha .. mine used to bubble up but no luck anymore..

Seemed to bubble nicely under PC's and is stringy under MH. I thought it would be the opposite.

[EmilyB]

My "Mitch colony" settled down and stopped reproducing the last year or so. It stays put, maybe because the maroons are constantly laying, who knows. :cool: Never any bubbles lately tho.