View Full Version : splitting anemones
Joey D
10-30-2003, 5:23 PM
well, it finally happened. My first ever bubble tip anemone splitting has occured last night. I woke this morning to find 2 anemones instead of just one. What caused it? My guess would be, along with providing great water and lighting conditions, periodic feedings. I started my anemone on a diet of silversides about a week ago, feeding it almost daily. If someone with experience has seen this, tell me, when will i see a noticeable oral disc on these things, and when will they fully heal?
When should I start re-feeding them?
mogurnda
10-31-2003, 10:38 AM
Wow! COngratulations. I have no useful info, but think it's really cool.
I read somewhere on the web of another person's experience with BTA's. They connected division of their BTA's to both being fed recently, and a water change. By any chance did you do a water change in the same relative time period?
liquafaction
10-31-2003, 3:50 PM
I had something pop up on a piece of live rock, that I am begining to think is a bubble tipped anemone. I do not know for sure what it is, but it does have an oral disc, very short tentacles (only one ring of them (like aiptasia), and at the end of the tentacles, are bubbles. Honestly, I do not know what it is, and have not been able to compare it to anything. I do know that it started showing an oral disc, and looking more anemone like about 3 weeks after we noticed it in the tank.
what color is your "popup"? I have some freeloading polyps that sprouted out of a piece of live rock when we first set up our tank. they are greenish, a disk more or less like an aiptasia, with a single ring of tentacles, with bubble shaped ends. The tentacles are longer than my BTA's. Also these are in the size range of an aiptasia. I'm guessing your "popup" is similar to what I have, rather than an actual BTA. Also, my freeloaders have divided several times. I started out with 3. I now have 10. A couple have migrated to different rocks. Their division rate is not such that I am worried about them overrunning the tank, and they have a neat appearance.
Joey D
11-01-2003, 2:23 AM
Cathy, I do water changes every week which includes adding all necessary trace elements, except calcium because i dont have any corals right now. I have been feeding the anemone alot though, at least a small piece of a silverside a day, because its not a very big anemone to begin with, and it would usually regurgitate a whole silverside. It did in fact split into 2 simply because they both are not completely round anymore, they look rather "torn apart" like they separated but are both doing well, and are identical to one another, same color and eveything. They are about half the size of the original. by the way, what do you mean by "popup" and "BTA".
"popup" is in reference to liquefactions reply, where he was talking about something "popping up" out of his live rock. if you're lucky, when you buy live rock, you get interesting critters like these. The ones mentioned sound like polyps.
BTA is short for Bubble Tipped Anenome.
Sorry for careless use of lingo!
liquafaction
11-04-2003, 9:20 AM
sorry it took so long to get back, I have been in the process of finalizing my aquaraium, and have been super busy. The "popup" is a pastel purple.
cathy
11-04-2003, 10:15 AM
pretty! mine are more greenish.
Joey D
11-04-2003, 2:40 PM
Sounds cool. Wish I had popups. The only thing I have poppin up is hair algae and copepods. By the way, both anemones are lookin good, and are accepting food now. Lets hope they keep splitting.
Gealcath
11-12-2003, 6:46 PM
Its very rare to get water conditions required for a anemone to use asexual reproduction as long as it doesnt become a pest (like there are certain anemones that are impossible to get rid of due to their incredible regeneration rate)