My RBTA ripped himself

[Glenn]

While I was at Rocko918's picking up my Acans, I noticed some RBTA's in his frag tank and asked if he'd part with one - so I brought it home and put it in the 135g frag tank (6'x3') on a 4x4 piece of ceramic tile. Within an hour, my pair of gold-bar maroon clowns had found it and were hosting in it. (The female looked as if she'd found her best friend in the world .) Everything was fine for a couple days, and to the best of my knowledge, nothing changed. The lights are on timers and the pump/powerheads haven't been moved, but the RBTA decided to move to a nearby rock. Then overnight, it "tried" to move on the rock. Now I have a small piece of red bubble tips with some white body in one crevice and most of the red bubble tips with most of the white body in another location on the same rock. Neither segment is fully extended but there is enough to see that there is some extension in the bubble tips.

 

Should I do anything? I think the larger segment will eventually be ok but is it likely that the smaller section will survive? (I have not moved the rock to check it out so I really don't know yet how much red bubble tip and white body is actually in the crevice.)

Edited April 7, 2010 by Glenn

[ReeferMan]

looks like you could have two now. leave them alone they will be ok

[rocko918]

should be ok, they are hardy suckers. I wonder if the clowns irritated it a bit before it could settle in. Give it a few days and watch it. IF it looks worse and the clowns are still trying to host in it you may want to remove the rbta or clowns. Put it in a basket or something so it can settle in.

[Coral Hind]

There is nothing to do but sit back and watch nature work. It sounds like a stress induced assexual reproduction and allot of E. quadricolor owners experience this when they first bring home a new specimen. It will close in around itself and inflat back up in the next day or two. In about a week the mouth will be healed and ready to eat small items.

 

 

[gmubeach]

When I had this happen I got a baby!