BTA & Koralia... any problem?

[Larry Grenier]

I've been thinking of getting a BTA for some time now.

 

You should see my clown trying to snuggle in a small candy-cane colony... sad

 

Anyway, any problem using Koralia's with BTAs?

[Coral Hind]

It may not happen right away but eventually the Koralias will become a BTA fragging tool if it is not protected with a screen or foam. I have had a few BTAs get chopped by my nanostreams. All have survived or split from the event. I just turned it off and they pulled themselves from the powerhead. I now run an MJ1200 with foam on it in my tank with the BTAs. Keeping the power head up as high as possible helps too.

 

A Sebae is less likely to move around and to get sucked into powerheads. They normally stay low along the bottom.

[jason the filter freak]

Keep the anem on the other side of the tank from the power head, and have the flow directed at the bta, out of 7 total bta's in I and Tina's 75 gal we lost 1 to a maxi mod because it was placed too close to it in the first place. It was also a freshly split walker. So you may want to let yours settle its foot for 2 hours or so before turning on your power head, and I can almost guarantee it will walk from the space where you place it initially. But if you put it in the right flow and light it shouldn't walk too far. Just don't put it next to super high end corals.

[bankyf]

I have lost 2 nems to korallias. They were no where near the powerhead, but decide to roam around one day. After that I got some of the plastic canvas that they use for needlepoint and wraped it around the outside of the pump. That worked well for 6 months or so. I now run the Vortech's with the foam cover and no problems