BTA update

I wish I had taken a few pictures for you all a month or so ago to let yu see how bad things were for my BTA's

Case study:

I have two quadacolors of variing colors, one is green with purple tips, the other has a green body with rose tenticles.

They both in a mater of a week decided to take on my overflow box.  As you can guess they did not fair to well. The Green BTA was ripped completly in half, with one hald more intact then the other.  I gently scooped his two side off of and out of the over flow box and placed them both gently in the sand.  They both lived, and the the bad hald slpit again, in to two pices so one became three.  They are all still alive, and have grown tenticles and mouths.

The Pink tenticle bta had the same thing happen I was alerted to the trouble when my daughter came running in to my room early one Saturday morning and told me we had "pretty pink worms in the back of the tank" concerned I raced down to the tank and found my prize bta being torn to pieces by the flow oging in to the over flow box.  I quickly but gently pulled the BTA out of the over flow box again, this one was not completly chopped in half but it was in bad shape.

It too split and both halfs lived.

1 month later and I still have all 5 BTAs  They are healthy and going great.  I am feeding them krill once a week, and have them under light for 10 hours a day.

Anemone's in the overflow can be a really bad thing.  I've not written about this before because it is just too depressing, but here goes.

I went out of town for 3 days to go fishing.  Sometime near the beginning of those 3 days my 13" BTA crawled into the overflow box and blocked all of the flow.  Needless to say the 50ish gallons of water in the sump were pumped over the top of the tank and somehow, thankfully, the GFCI was kicked off.

When I got home 3 days later and noticed the problem I immediately did a 50% water change. (Not easy with a 180 gallon tank.)  Anyway, I lost 4 fish, a Flame Angel, a Coral Beauty Angel, A Sailfin Tang and a Bi-color Blenny. I also lost a Coral Banded Shrimp.  Not to mention the BTA.  He was so torn up, (all gooey and stinky,) and I was so pissed at him that he went in the round file without a chance to see if he would make it.  Many of my corals were traumatized, but the only one that didn't fully recover by the Reef Tour a week later was one piece of Xenia. 

After this I promised myself I would never have another anemone.  (This month)

So Will - your frags are looking fantastic in my tank - as usual. 

How is your tank doing now?  If your BTA was gooey & stinky he was likely a goner.  If you get another anemone, what would you get this time?  My perculas seem to "love" their anemones to death.  Seriously.  Even when it was a massive anemone.  They don't protect it, they just wiggle it to death & steal its food. 

Since you're my "tank twin," I figured I would ask you.  Whatever works good for you seems to work for me.