BTA Help!!

[Cibo]

A peace of my rbta got sucked into my tunze 6025 power head it did not get choped up it just stuck in the grating I powered down the power head, and took the front part off.

Will the rbta work its way out on its own or do I need to cut the grating on the power head to free it?

 

[drej424]

The same thing happened to my sebae. I couldn't save it. It was the same powerhead, too.

 

[Hefe-Weizen]

Leave it be. It will probably deflate more at some point and drop the housing.

 

[RARECLOWNSNJ]

It will def pull itself out. just give it time.

I dont recommend keeping anemones with open grate pumps. Anemones are attracted to flow and this is always a danger of nuking a tank

 

[Cibo]

Thanks! for the input I will give it some time hope it works its way out if not Iam gona cut up the tunze I have about had it with them this is the 3rd one in 4 months 2 inpellars and one stoped working

 

[Cibo]

AM update back out doing good!

 

[Johnnyreef]

You got lucky u caught it in time !! Good luck.

 

[Johnnyreef]

I had mine chopped up by my mp10 and it nuked my tank. I had to do water changes every other day for almost two weeks. I had no clue that could happen safe to say no more rbta's for me not worth the time bombs they are. But they are so pretty ! Lol

 

[coralmad]

Sorry to see this, I always put netting over my powerheads to prevent this since I saw a friends tank suffer the same as Johnny above

 

[drej424]

I'm glad to hear yours is improving! After losing mine, I was able to get another beautiful, huge Sebae from someone on this site. It's in a 55g specimen tank with no power heads.

 

[Cibo]

I have had rbta's for over 10 years this is the first time somthing like this happen the power head was off for a few days because the impeller went bad. I think it just moved to close to the powerhead that was off then when I installed the new power impeller he was to close to the intake I moved the powerhead away from it now and all doing well