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Super excited, my RFA had babies! Not sure which one had them and only saw these 2 so far. They look so colorful
I have never seen RFA's do that, and yours seem to be doing it in mass. Even the ones up on the rocks in the background seem to be drooping.
Do you know what your PAR is? How about other water parameters? Even water temp? Does this 14g system have a sump and/or a refugium? What is the turn over of water from the tank though the sump? What is in your sump and in the fuge (assuming there is one)?
With the other species of nems that I have, they typically go for a walk when they raise their pedal like that. Hopefully that is not the case though.
Anyone else have a cannibal RFA? I
Just saw one of mine spitting out the remains of another. Yuck.
I have a Florida shallow water that ate a very small Florida deeper water. So it is possible with Florida one. Great analogy with nems like people lol. It is sooo true.Do you know there that cannibal RFA came from? I had over 35 RFA's from the Florida Keys in a small 16g tank. I even have a couple of RFA's sharing a single PVC end cap. None of them seem to have any desire to even harass any of their neighbors.
I wonder if yours may be from the Indian Ocean?
However, that said, I always tell people that ocean critters are just like people. Most of us are fairly 'normal' and similar. But every once and awhile you get one that is way far off the reservation and acts completely out of character.
Did you QT them... if so, how?I have mostly ultra rfas from a few different souces, heres a pic.
I have bought lots of RFAs and brought a few home from snorkel/collecting trips to the Keys and I've never done more than a week or so in a holding tank. Never needed any treatment or long term quarantine.Did you QT them... if so, how?
So I'm a little confused on this. My goal is to have my tank dedicated just to RFAs, similar to what VIP Reef in Miami has (see attached photo), and theirs are all over the rocks. What would RFAs prefer being in the sand over being on the rocks?I had that issue as well back when I first started buying RFA's. They weren't really big to start with and they didn't like just sitting on my rocks. I didn't feed them much as I had a couple of the not so colorful RFA's and they seemed to do just fine without being feed any more than all the corals that get leftover food from feeding the fish.
I found RFA's love holes in the rocks and at one of my favorite snorkel spots in the Florida Keys, the RFA's seems to love being in 1" to 3" of sand with a hard substrate under it that has holes. They attach their foot in that hole and when bothered (by me or anything else) they would pull under the sand. I'd blow away the sand and they'd be all the way down into the hole in the rock. So a friend and I started putting them in PVC end caps and they seem to love it. It also mean they can take up space in the sand rather than in my rocks where I would rather have corals. And that they are easy to move if I need room or end up selling one.
I also found the colorful ones that come from deeper water where they get less light (30' to 50' deep). Now I'm no marine biologist, but my bet is that they do not have the zooxanthellae that do photosynthesis as well as the less colorful RFA's that live in shallow water. So I started feeding mine more mysis shrimp by spot feeding with a turkey baster and they all seemed to start doing much better. Now, once every week on average, I turn off all my pumps, feed the fish and spot feed the RFA's until they all fold up with captured food. In 10 to 15 minutes they are opened up again and I turn the pumps back on.
I don't know if that helps, but it's what worked for me. Good luck.