RBTA health
 

I have RBTA in a mixed reef system. It seemed very healthy and was eating well until I introduced a mated pair of marroon clownfish. The female clown is fairly large and engages the RBTA rather aggressively, or at least it seems that way. The anenome has retreated behind a rock, leaving very little of itself exsposed. At what point should you consider removing the anenome? I'm concerned about it dying and releasing toxins. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

Sometimes they will hide in the rock work for weeks with what seems to us as not enough light. Ime it will come back out when it's ready. If you can blow a bit of mysis into it a coupke times a week it would probably enjoy that.

my clown bugged one until it died.

IME, anemones hide when they get stressed out. If they don't come out for a long time they will bleached and die due to lack of exposure to light.

What I normally do is, dig out the rock where it is attached to if I can, and relocate the nem where it is at least have exposure to light but not directly under a bright light. Blowing the nem with a turkey baster also helps relocating the animal.

Hope that helps.