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09-09-2003, 05:23 PM
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Blacktip Shark
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Middleburg, VA
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BTA in Trouble!!
Hey Everyone! Guess I'm not having to much anomone luck, huh? Well, the carpet i got was doing so well that last sunday I went to the LFS and couldn't turn a Bta down. Well, monday when I woke up I couldn't find him. I checked the overflows, sumps, etc. My guess is that he is under a rock somewhere. I have guards on all the ph's. I've heard that they aren't very smart and will go under a rock and die from lack of light!  
Will he come back out, or should I try to tear the top rocks apart to find him. I'm a bit worried because I don't have a back on my tank so I can see in from the workroom behind and i can't find him! Any thoughts?!
PS: Feel free to hijack the thread after an anwser is found!  Love you guys! 
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Forecast for tonight: dark, continued dark overnight, widely scattered light by morning
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09-09-2003, 06:03 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Colorado
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Look for him with a flash light...also you may want to direct your water flow into the rocks...this may coax him out.
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09-09-2003, 07:14 PM
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Crazed Fish Whisperer
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Kansas City, MO
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you can stick a small mirror down behind and see if you can find him. Or yes, re-directing powerheads might cause him to move again.
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09-09-2003, 08:18 PM
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Blacktip Shark
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Middleburg, VA
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How urgent is it to get him back out in the light?
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Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want
He who fears the thorn, should never crave the rose.
-favorite TRT quote
Forecast for tonight: dark, continued dark overnight, widely scattered light by morning
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09-09-2003, 08:25 PM
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Crazed Fish Whisperer
Join Date: Jul 2002
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Not super imperative to get him back out, he can survive a week in the dark...some bubbles will go into hiding for a while when they go to split. So, give him a few days...see if he comes out on his own.
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09-09-2003, 10:25 PM
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Nothing to See Here
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Montana
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The BTA will go to the light source when ready! Mine did!  |
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09-10-2003, 02:11 PM
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Blacktip Shark
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Middleburg, VA
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Thanks for the advice! But could they really split right after being introduced?
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Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want
He who fears the thorn, should never crave the rose.
-favorite TRT quote
Forecast for tonight: dark, continued dark overnight, widely scattered light by morning
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09-10-2003, 02:17 PM
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Reef Geek
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Atlanta
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This may simply be your BTA's way of aclimating to the available light in your sysem. If it gets too much light (or not enough) in one place it will move.
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09-11-2003, 12:48 AM
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squid
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: NW washington state
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mine went into hiding the same way, and as I really got worried, two came out into the light, just like said above, it split, and it had only been in my tank less then a week, so now I have two, but they still haven't settled down to one place, just as I think they have, and I feed them, they move the next day.
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