Hello! I bought a BTA from my LFS this past Saturday 5/13 and it does not seem happy. We acclimated for 1 hour by adding increments of water to floating bag, placed it on a rock and turned off wave maker.
It constantly moved around but never seemed to actually attach. Then we started noticing it would constantly flip itself over face first in the sand. We would flip it back over and it would do it again.
its currently on the sand bed face up but shrunken about 10x it’s size and just looks in bad shape. I don’t know what we’re doing wrong!![Frown :( :(](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
here’s current setup and parameters, I will take a photo when I get home from work:
75 gallon tanking running about 1.5 years
pH - 8.1
Salinity - 1.025
alkalinity - 8
Ammonia, nitrite, nitrate - 0
Temp - 76 (we just raised to 79)
Lights - viparspectra 165W 40% blue 20% white (slowly incrementing upward)
Suspected dinoflagellates in tank
Tank mates are 2 clownfish, 2 chromis, a rock flower, and GSP
we called our LFS and they haven’t been too much help, he doesn’t seem to be injured but this is our first BTA…
It constantly moved around but never seemed to actually attach. Then we started noticing it would constantly flip itself over face first in the sand. We would flip it back over and it would do it again.
its currently on the sand bed face up but shrunken about 10x it’s size and just looks in bad shape. I don’t know what we’re doing wrong!
here’s current setup and parameters, I will take a photo when I get home from work:
75 gallon tanking running about 1.5 years
pH - 8.1
Salinity - 1.025
alkalinity - 8
Ammonia, nitrite, nitrate - 0
Temp - 76 (we just raised to 79)
Lights - viparspectra 165W 40% blue 20% white (slowly incrementing upward)
Suspected dinoflagellates in tank
Tank mates are 2 clownfish, 2 chromis, a rock flower, and GSP
we called our LFS and they haven’t been too much help, he doesn’t seem to be injured but this is our first BTA…