BTA clone questions?

I bought my BTA clone from a guy in Brooklyn. It was about 4 inches around when he gave it to me, so i assume he kept it in check for a while before selling it. That was perhaps 3 or 4 months ago and now it's about 8 inches around when it wants to be. And when it touches any corals...they let me know.

Part of me hopes mine splits...that'd be interesting, and leave me something to sell.

When a BTA splits it is usually because of 1 of 2 things 1 being stress and the other is from constant feeding, Depending on you water paramaters, lighting and how often you feed it will effect how fast it grows.

I've also heard you have to be pretty careful introducing a small BTA to a large pair of clowns. They usually say that a 1-3 ratio is a good, as far as size goes....

Or so I read in my studies. My BTA is like 6-8 across the main disc, and my clowns are probably barely pushing an inch.

that really goes for any anemone (though for other species, such as Stichodactylid anemones, you may want to skew that ratio even more so for the anemone's benefit).

Your questions aren't easily defined ones (or well understood, for that matter), unfortunately, and can only be answered with some generalities:

1.) Growth will depend upon a variety of factors, including tank conditions (ie. water quality and parameters), lighting, and feeding frequency (even the type of food can and will influence this). Given things are optimal, it can grow very fast, doubling and even tripling in size within months. However, this also depends upon whether or not yours remains a "clonal" version, which depends upon the above (and who knows what else, possibly some genetic factors involved there, as well).

2.) The possibility is high and will depend upon the above conditions as well. If the split frequency is high, the overall size will not be large, usually not too much larger than 6 or so inches for heavily schizogonous varieties. Whereas in other cases, your conditions may favor a much larger version that does not split often. In general, heavy feeding, high lighting, etc. will encourage non-stress induced splitting (and even sexual spawning), but not always, as there are many exceptions.