Bubbletip not showing bubble tips

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Hi all.
I bought a bubbletip from my lfs about 4 months ago to go with a pair
of maroon clowns, which I was buying from the same shop. At the time
the bubbles were looking lovely and bloated, and it looked really nice
in the lfs. When I got everything home, the anemone was a bit deflated
and the clowns a little restless but after an hour or so aclimating all
seemed well.

However since that day, despite both clowns and the anemone getting
almost twice as big as they were in the shop, the bubbletip has not
shown bubbled, bloated tips even once.

She (the anomone) is sat high in the tank, only 10cms from the top of
the water, directly below a 150w 14000k MH bulb, and glows the
brightest green when the actinics are the only lights on, but I'm
desperate to know how to get the tips back.

I've read some posts about light, feeding and flow and I seem to be
doing everything right, feeding 2 or 3 times a week, right under the
lights which are on for 8 hours a day and there is a 400 lph powerhead
with a flow rotator not 6 inches away from it.

If anyone has anything they think I should be doing, or not doing,
please please please let me know.

Thanks

[kim gross]

wrote:
> Hi all.
> I bought a bubbletip from my lfs about 4 months ago to go with a pair
> of maroon clowns, which I was buying from the same shop. At the time
> the bubbles were looking lovely and bloated, and it looked really nice
> in the lfs. When I got everything home, the anemone was a bit deflated
> and the clowns a little restless but after an hour or so aclimating all
> seemed well.
>
> However since that day, despite both clowns and the anemone getting
> almost twice as big as they were in the shop, the bubbletip has not
> shown bubbled, bloated tips even once.
>
> She (the anomone) is sat high in the tank, only 10cms from the top of
> the water, directly below a 150w 14000k MH bulb, and glows the
> brightest green when the actinics are the only lights on, but I'm
> desperate to know how to get the tips back.
>
> I've read some posts about light, feeding and flow and I seem to be
> doing everything right, feeding 2 or 3 times a week, right under the
> lights which are on for 8 hours a day and there is a 400 lph powerhead
> with a flow rotator not 6 inches away from it.
>
> If anyone has anything they think I should be doing, or not doing,
> please please please let me know.
>
> Thanks
>
Good question. Getting bulbble tip anemones to show the bubbles is one
of those unkowns to the hobby. I have 3 bubble tips right now, and one
is showing good bubbles and the other 2 have non-bubbles. Unless it is
a major problem to you, I would suggest you just do not worry about it.

Kim

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Hey Kim.
It's not a major problem to me, but I tend to think alot and I end up
asking myself, why was this lovely animal looking so nice in the LFS
and not in my tank? What am I doing wrong?
It's growing really fast, as are all my other corals etc. and all the
water params seem to be ok. Im sure I dont under or over feed and yet I
cant get the tips to swell. It'd be nice to know the answer.

I'll happily take any advice, and if anyone has a picture of their
anemone with swollen tips so I can see where it is in the tank etc with
lighting and flow, that'd be really good.

[Pszemol]

> wrote in message oups.com...
> It's not a major problem to me, but I tend to think alot and I end up
> asking myself, why was this lovely animal looking so nice in the LFS
> and not in my tank? What am I doing wrong?

Yes, I understand your concerns... I own one bubble-tip myself
and in the fish tank I kept it, it stopped showing bubbles soon
after bringing it from the store.

> It's growing really fast, as are all my other corals etc. and all the
> water params seem to be ok. Im sure I dont under or over feed and yet I
> cant get the tips to swell. It'd be nice to know the answer.
>
> I'll happily take any advice, and if anyone has a picture of their
> anemone with swollen tips so I can see where it is in the tank etc
> with lighting and flow, that'd be really good.

I will tell you one story from my tank - my anemone was growing stedily
for couple of years - it almost filled my whole 30 gallons tank...
Last December my tank crashed due to the lack of nutrients export
and the anemone got sick - not accepting food at all for weeks...
I could not get the tank to work properly so I teared down the tank
and moved all rocks and animals into my other tanks. Anemone
and maroon clowns ended up in a 20 gallon plastic tub with one
MaxiJet 1200 powerhead and single 96W 50/50 power compact.
The tub was filled with fresh Instant Ocean mix at 35ppt salnity.
It took less than one week for the anemone to get helthier and show
bubbles on the tips. After a month in this tub, when the water gets
dirtier and algae activity on the rocks is more visible anemone is
showing less bubbles every day.

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Its like ive said already though, the water conditions seem to be as
good as I would hope to get. 0 amonia, nitrites and nitrates.
Phosphates are at 0.15 Calcium is up at 430 and KH is at 110. Salinity
is 33ppt. PH is at 8.2. Temp is between 26 and 27 celcius. I also have
a reverse light cycle refugium housing calurpa.

any more ideas?

[Marcus Pieper]

IMO it's a LIGHT issue!! My BTA had had BUBBLES until i'd put her in a
tank with less light than she got before (~1,3Watt/Liter in the old
system...~0,6 Watt / Liter in the new System) and she totally lost her
bubbles!! My animals are still very healthy and the BTA splitted 3 times
in 8 Month but NO bubbles any longer! In a few month i think i'll raise
my light up to arround 1 Watt / liter and i hope she'll get back the
bubbles!!

Marcus


schrieb:
> Its like ive said already though, the water conditions seem to be as
> good as I would hope to get. 0 amonia, nitrites and nitrates.
> Phosphates are at 0.15 Calcium is up at 430 and KH is at 110. Salinity
> is 33ppt. PH is at 8.2. Temp is between 26 and 27 celcius. I also have
> a reverse light cycle refugium housing calurpa.
>
> any more ideas?
>

[Pszemol]

"Marcus Pieper" > wrote in message ...
> IMO it's a LIGHT issue!! My BTA had had BUBBLES until i'd put her in a
> tank with less light than she got before (~1,3Watt/Liter in the old
> system...~0,6 Watt / Liter in the new System) and she totally lost her
> bubbles!! My animals are still very healthy and the BTA splitted 3 times
> in 8 Month but NO bubbles any longer! In a few month i think i'll raise
> my light up to arround 1 Watt / liter and i hope she'll get back the
> bubbles!!

Have you put it back under stronger light to confirm your hypothesis?
Are these two tanks IDENTICAL IN ALL OTHER CONDITIONS except light?