I wish my BTA would Bubble!

Harold Edwards · #1 04/16/2006, 01:07 PM

Has anyone figured out what makes BTA bubble? Mine did for 3 day when I got him, but now he don't. I have had him 3 months.

kingtoad · #2 04/16/2006, 01:10 PM

Mine bubble at night after feeding time.

TOURKID · #3 04/16/2006, 01:14 PM

mine got its bubbles back after i took hosting fish away (had to get qt'ed)

cmcgehee01 · #4 04/16/2006, 03:59 PM

mine keeps the bubbles all the time!
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Harold Edwards · #5 04/16/2006, 04:08 PM

what is your secret cmcgehee?

cmcgehee01 · #6 04/16/2006, 04:25 PM

I don't know what causes it. It did not have bubbles when I bought it two years ago. One morning several months later it had bubbles & has ever since. I don't think I do anything different..just lucky. I also put him on this rock near the top of tank 2 years ago & he has never moved!

clord · #7 04/16/2006, 04:46 PM

Mine starts to get bubbles then it gets stringy an hour later

Harold Edwards · #8 04/16/2006, 05:35 PM

lets try to figure it out. please post what you feed, lighting, hosting, and tank size. and anythang else you do.
BTA
250w MH
two black clowns hosting
sliver slides every to days
46g bowfront

No bubble tips!

818 · #9 04/16/2006, 07:01 PM

No one will ever know Muahahahahahaha....

Seriously we all wish we knew man, its mother nature what can I say?

TOURKID · #10 04/16/2006, 07:08 PM

45 gal
silverslides every 3 days
PC lighting/ moonlight

Has bubbles

But like I said... brought it home from store with bubbles, maroon hosted, no bubbles , maroon out of tank.. bubbles.. not even an hour later. has been bubbled ever since except when pooping

cmcgehee01 · #11 04/16/2006, 07:09 PM

55 gallon
RBTA..no clown hosting
220 Watts PC & 108 watts T5
Alternate feeding fresh shrimp & whole silversides

I took my clown out..He beat the anemone up too bad plus stealing food. He would actually go inside the anemone after he ate & steal his food.

818 · #12 04/16/2006, 08:49 PM

Had:
2 RBTA 60g alot of flow
silverside,and deli shrimp every 4 days
260w PC lighting

1 RBTA 30g H Moderate Flow
Silverside, and deli shrimp every 4 days
210W pc lighting

last tank 60g
4 RBTA Very slow flow
silverside, and deli shrim every 4 days
250w PC lighting

None had bubbles!

I will be attempting now in my 110g tank. I will be aquiring one from Anemone "Kevin" next weekend. Well see what happens.

Sam

TOURKID · #13 04/18/2006, 12:52 PM

so i put my maroon back in my reef tank yesterday. she lost all her bubbles by this morning.

kingtoad · #14 04/18/2006, 05:36 PM

60 Gallon
216w T5 Lighting
One small peice of krill at night
No fish hosting.

After feeding at night his bubbles form. If I feed him in the day he won't bubble until my day ligts turn off.

TOURKID · #15 04/18/2006, 07:16 PM

so basicly like we already knew... there are no factors that can explain the bubble phenomena hu? lol

ahbroody · #16 04/19/2006, 12:10 AM

Exactly, the best i have come up with is a area thing on where they are collected. I have 4 in my 60 1 always has bubble tips and 3 never get them. NO ONE KNOWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyone who says they do is full of ish. They cannot replicate it. Hell the bubble and non bubble are touching each other so it is just an known unknown and not an unknown unknown.
Mike

ClownReef® · #17 04/19/2006, 10:39 AM

Hmmm.. One of my hypothesis is...lower light. When i bought my RBTA they had it under crappy PCs at the store, the bubbles where beautiful. Took it home..3x250 14Ks.. bubbles gone. VHOs go on in the morning, amazing bubbles come up..then they become stringy. So, there are many hypothesis...

1- take the clowns away and it will bubble
-In nature they dont lose their bubbles and they have families of clowns hosting.

2-they bubble after a large meal.
-Ive seen this happen a few times (large meal IMO is 2-3 silversides)

3-Low light (ive experienced that one a few times)

Anybody has anymore? Maybe we can knock them 1 by 1.

Beng · #18 04/19/2006, 02:00 PM

My GBTA has too many bubbles, I hate bubbles.
I want looooong elongated tentacles that sway in the wave !!!

Well, that's just my opinion

Kevinnap · #19 04/19/2006, 02:33 PM

see, if you have them, you don't want them, and those of us who don't have them want them. Human nature, I guess.

NoIdeaWhatToDo · #20 04/20/2006, 09:56 PM

Mine hasn't had bubbles since the first few days I had it.

175w MH
29g tank
2 true percs hosting
occasionally target feed a mix of shrimp

ClownReef® · #21 04/23/2006, 11:15 AM

NoIdea- Mine bubbled when i got it and then poof!..Im gonna do an experiment though. im gonna take the clowns away for a few days and see what happens. Ive seen people say that they lost the bubbles when the clowns where introduced..(although it doesnt make any sense..)..so, we'll see..

TOURKID · #22 04/23/2006, 11:33 AM

hmmm... i have pc's. I stated that my bubbles came back when the fish got taken out.... i put the fish back in my reef almost a week ago... the bubbles dident go away. today they are gone. i changed my lights yesterday... nothing 'stronger' just replaced the 6 month old pcs with new bulbs.

sheepdawg · #23 04/25/2006, 01:53 PM

How much flow do you guys have on the RBTA, mine tends to bubble more now that I moved it to a place where there is less turbulent flow.

Snausages01 · #24 04/25/2006, 03:57 PM

I've had mine for over a year now and it has gone through stages, but 90% of the time is has bubble tips. I have mine under 400 watt Iwasakis with a pair of false percs, and I never feed it. One thing I did notice is that after the addition of the wavebox it's bubbles got a lot larger.