Is there something wrong with my BTA?

[1epauletteshark]

Something wrong with my BTA? Looks deflated and isn’t grabbing food

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My BTA looks deflated and isn’t grabbing food with its “fingers” is it just stressed because my two baby clowns won’t stop squabbling or is there a more severe problem going on?

 

[vetteguy53081]

Added 5x turbo/astrea snails and 8 "blue leg hermit crabs" that turned out to be blue hermit crabs and I can't get any actual blue legs here so that's fun but they do eat the algae (and occasionally eat/attack each other) but I did also add a tuxedo urchin and that seems to have helped a lot too. I haven't seen it regrowing at all as I am frequently scraping glass and my rocks are becoming less red.

Yes blue hermits are scavengers and eat algae too but are larger. Astrea will take care of glass

 

[1epauletteshark]

Yes blue hermits are scavengers and eat algae too but are larger. Astrea will take care of glass

1 down 7 to go

 

[1epauletteshark]

I found one dead in the tank and the skunk shrimp had a nibble and another one of the hermits came and finished it off

 

[1epauletteshark]

I am actually very happy, I figured out that 2 of the 7 remaining are the hermits I wanted, and I have separated the rest into a hang on QT container to return Friday as I witnessed my favorite of the others around my BTA picking through it.