Bubble tip not so bubbly

[Flyride95]

Hey guys quick question. My two bubble tips have lost there bubbles and now look like long tentacle anemones. They are both near the bottom of my aquarium but they never ever move. I feed them brine shrimp once a week via injector and they gobble it up. There mouths look awesome and they both look healthy. My alk ammonia nits ect ect all are in check. Led lights at 75%. Now here is my question. I have a wave maker and both of the anemones are right next to eachother. Can they be stinging the other and that is causing them stress or are they just hungry and I should go get them some silversides?

[ramsey]

The "bubble" on their tentacle is not an indicator of health. If they're inflated, their mouths not open and they're accepting food, I'd say they're doing fine. I doubt they'd be stinging each other if they're the same species.

[Bill S]

You have a normal BTA. Mine look like that most of the time. Only rarely do BTAs seem to look like the pictures. I would guess that they look like the pictures when they are fed a silverside each day? No, don't do that.

I've been keeping my RBTAs for around 10 years now. Mine split again last night. I almost never feed them directly.

[Flyride95]

Ok great i just wanted to check. Currently I have only blew brine shrimp in there direction but they have never been fed anything big like a silverside. I felt that they did not need it. Thanks again for the reassurance.

[Flyride95]

I'll take a pic of them in a bit when the light come on fully.

[jroescher]

My BTA only looked like the pictures when I first got it. For the next 7 years it never 'bubbled up'. And it grew huge in that time. Sometimes I fed it, and sometimes it would get a sick fish. Otherwise I never fed it.

[Flyride95]

Here is what they look like. They are right at 6" wide. And yes that is my torch stretching out its tentacles over 8inches lol. Anyway let me know how they look. Ps the lights are bright just my iphone toned the light down.
http://i62.tinypic.com/zoj7h2.jpg
http://i61.tinypic.com/27y51ts.jpg

[ramsey]

Here is what they look like. They are right at 6" wide. And yes that is my torch stretching out its tentacles over 8inches lol. Anyway let me know how they look. Ps the lights are bright just my iphone toned the light down.
http://i62.tinypic.com/zoj7h2.jpg
http://i61.tinypic.com/27y51ts.jpg

They look like happy nems to me.

[Flyride95]

Thank you

[rocketeer]

I've been keeping RBTAs for ten years and they almost never have bubble tips, until recently. I replaced my 250W MHs with AI Vegas and one of my RBTAs is right under one and it has consistent bubble tips. It still seems healthy. If it was stressed, I think it would wander away or go deeper. The other three clones I have, which are farther away, don't do it, except one that occasionally peeps out from behind a rock and gets bubble tips in the light. Just thought it was interesting.

Jack