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BHenderson79 · 01-07-2008, 10:55 AM

I recently picked up a nice looking bubble tip and placed it in my tank as a home for my clownfish. I have a lot of live rock in the tank and expected the BTA to wander a bit when I put it in, but what I did not expect was that it would choose a spot in between two rocks and largely underneath a third rock and then stay put. It's almost completely sheltered from the light and almost impossible for me to see and even more impossible to reach it for feeding.

Yesterday I reversed the direction of my powerheads to change the flow patterns in the tank in hopes that it might bring it out. If that doesn't work, does anyone have any suggestions short of rearranging a ton of rockwork? I'd like to be able to reach it for feeding.

Oh, one other question - I was able to "hand" feed it (with a plastic gripper claw) a couple times before it ran away, and that was a problem too. I would hand some zooplankton to it and it would start to grab it with its tentacles, but then my cleaner shrimp would come over and just ravenously steal the food from it. I had to sit there with the claw, shooing them away the whole time which is a gigantic pain!

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BHenderson79 Limpet Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Trenton, NJ Posts: 136 View Gallery Karma Komment	BTA in an inaccessible location I recently picked up a nice looking bubble tip and placed it in my tank as a home for my clownfish. I have a lot of live rock in the tank and expected the BTA to wander a bit when I put it in, but what I did not expect was that it would choose a spot in between two rocks and largely underneath a third rock and then stay put. It's almost completely sheltered from the light and almost impossible for me to see and even more impossible to reach it for feeding. Yesterday I reversed the direction of my powerheads to change the flow patterns in the tank in hopes that it might bring it out. If that doesn't work, does anyone have any suggestions short of rearranging a ton of rockwork? I'd like to be able to reach it for feeding. Oh, one other question - I was able to "hand" feed it (with a plastic gripper claw) a couple times before it ran away, and that was a problem too. I would hand some zooplankton to it and it would start to grab it with its tentacles, but then my cleaner shrimp would come over and just ravenously steal the food from it. I had to sit there with the claw, shooing them away the whole time which is a gigantic pain!