RBTA and GBTA: Friend or Foe

[dano]

I have a 72 gallon with a large GBTA (has never split and I've had it a couple of years) and a huge RBTA (has split many times and better split soon because it is overtaking my tank - central disc is about a foot wide and with the tentacles out it is torching some corals). Anyways, after hiding for a few days it has come out with a huge vengance and is opening up covering and laying on top of about half of the GBTA. The GBTA doesn't seem any worse for it but I am wondering whether they could sting/kill eachother and/or smother one. Thanks

[Coral Hind]

They will be fine together. I have never had issues mixing the two types.

[jason the filter freak]

People claim they can effect each other but I've never had any first hand accounts of damage just he said she said stuff. The being said typically but not always the reason BTAs stretch out so far/big is that the lighting in your tank isn't significant enough/needs to be replaced.

[dano]

People claim they can effect each other but I've never had any first hand accounts of damage just he said she said stuff. The being said typically but not always the reason BTAs stretch out so far/big is that the lighting in your tank isn't significant enough/needs to be replaced.

 

Thanks for the feedback... very interesting about the stretching being related to lighting and, in fact, it may have been about a year since I last changed my T5's

Edited May 12, 2010 by dano

[Coral Hind]

I have some new T5 6,500K bulbs you can have if that helps you out.

[Grav]

I've got a little "he said / she said" for you.

 

I had several GBTAs in a tank and every time I added a RBTA it would eventually die. Then added 10 all at once... now they are all fine.

 

GO FIGGURE

[gmubeach]

I have the two and they are on opposite sides of the tank no probles soo far... the wandb occelaris prefer the red! I'm not sure if they even know the green is hiding!