ok why is my BTA doing this its been going on for 2 weeks

[Octoman4]

its all stringy its eating silver sides and has 4 t5 lamps above it every thing else is doing great... i dont think the bta is doing bad maybe splitting ????

 

[Octoman4]

bump closer pic

 

[suvuong7]

it doesn't look healthy....looks like it's bleaching out.

 

[Octoman4]

i was kinda thinking that, how do i prevent, should i run only attinics for a while? i added iodine a couple days ago ... water change?

 

[james-lee]

Looks like a possible split.

 

[suvuong7]

yes water change and check your water parameters.

 

[Octoman4]

im gonna do a big water change and ill do paramets again, sucks cause im leaving for hawaii for 2 weeks and i need to get this figured out before i go

 

[suvuong7]

Wow who is going to take care of the tank while ur gone ... hope everything is still alive when u get back

 

[Octoman4]

my gf is going to feed it and my buddy is gonna come scope it out and do parameters half way through my expedition

 

[TypicalWhiteAZN]

yeah, its bleached out.. I've experienced that a few times already... its light shock, water shock, tank shock.. whatevers... As long as it doesn't deflate and widen its orifice while inverting it's intestines for long periods of time, then you're fine...

Once u see decade and signs of it melting, games over.. but from the picture, it looks okay.. just gotta leave it be with good flow and whatever color its supposed to be will come back in a few months...

yup, its gonna be awhile..

 

[gumbii]

stop feeding it... it's okay to get some nutrients from the fish or whatever you give it, but you see how it's all wide and everything..? it's starving for light... stretching itself out as much as possible... also, when you feed a lot, you're helping it grow, but not color up... it needs algae to be healthy and colored up...

it also looks like it's on the bottom of the tank... i would raise it up a bit more, or leave the lights on a little bit lighter...

if it gets burned by the lights, it will shrivle up and hide....

 

[Octoman4]

its gets fed once a week and what ever floats in it after feeding, its basically at the top of the tank actually, so i guess ill just wait... its weird though it was fine for weeks and then all of a sudden it started doing the stringy thing ... oh well

 

[TypicalWhiteAZN]

i feed the hell outta mine.. everyday sometimes twice if its my day off.. extremely fine miced squid... but thats just me, I'm trying to build girth.. I mean, who isn't?... haha

 

[Octoman4]

girth! lol... well at least my clown is more interested in the anemone since it started elongating its tenticles, might feel more like a rittiri to the perc

 

[suvuong7]

Try to alternate food source I feed my rbta mysis brine and pellets alternating each day different food source and it is doing great

 

[Octoman4]

i have been switching the food as well doing cubes of mysis and silversides and brine mix cubes ... it seems healthy but just isnt bubbled, i heard today once they elongate they dont go back to normal