Anemone - now there are 2

[ksatterf]

Hi, Firstpost, be kind.

So I started a biocube about a year ago. It's doing great. No real problems,

So I went bigger.. custom stand, 180, sump, think I'm finally getting a somthing I like after some really bad hair algae.

Moved most everything from the biocube to the "big" tank cause I thought it was stable (wrong!). Massive Green hair algae. No one died :) so I'm happier. Added a protien skimmer and things are better and improving.

Question? In the "good" tank (biocube 12months) I have a Anemone (think it is purple tip) and I thought it was looking a bit ill. Today it split into 2.

Is this good or bad or irrevalent? Been feeding sand eels, won't take creele.

Seems good, bit wanted input from someone with experience?

Thanks

[Conski]

no experience with anems yet but i am pretty sure if it split it means its happy :)

[ksatterf]

It's my first. Hope your right. I was told I was feeding too much before the split.

[Amphiprion]

Sounds like you actually have a bulbed-tip anemone. They won't necessarily have bulbed tips, but they often do have purple tips, though. They are also one of the most common to split. As far as what made it split, that is difficult to say. Without looking at a range of your water parameters over a period of time, you can't rule out stress. However, if you were feeding it heavily, then it may very well have split under normal circumstances. If you don't mind the splitting (and possibly sell the clones to stores and other aquarists), then continue with your feeding regimen. The maximum I recommend feeding anemones is every other day, btw (and the eels sound perfect).

[Ken b]

I had a large BTA split into 5. When I saw the tear at the oral disk I thought that my clown fish or something else had started to eat it. I thought i'd lose it until it started a second and third tear,and the little ones survived. The clowns wern't happy because the little anems weren't large enough to host at thst point. I used to feed it raw shrimp and silversides once or twice a week, under a 10k halide.

If your lighting is adequate and water conditions optimal then the division is a good thing because its needs are being met.

It's nice to be able to sell or give away a tank raised anemone

[ksatterf]

Sorry, I lost track of this post with work and all. In hindsight think the split may have been due to stress. After the split they pretty much stayed retracted. I seem to have let my water quality slip a bit while I was concentrating on my 180 tank. Short version, I removed both animones and placed them in the 180 while I got the Biocube back into shape. Better lights and better water quality in the big tang, but only about 4 months old. Really have not been able to feed them anything very large so I've been spot feeding frozen cyclops once or twice a week. They have both located faily protected areas and have been looking much better. I can see improvement most every day.

[Cheech]

^^^ good to hear !

YOu should post some pics of your setup.

[vanessaw]

I also have a bubble tip that split. i was originally informed by folks on "the reef tank" that it means stress....however I had 4 clowns trying to host it, and I think the nem was solving a crowding issue. The aquarium advised it's a good thing as they are asexual and that's how they reproduce. Both pieces have been alive and healthy since!!!!

V

[ksatterf]

Posted some picturs. Includes one of the animone when it looked good. Happy to say I see improvement every day.

[davocean]

Alot of times a split is due to stress, and in the case of vanessaw the clowns themselves could have caused stress enough to make them split, especially if nem was small.
Some people actually overfeed on purpose to induce splitting, and since you stated feeding heavy, would be my guess.
Light is main source of energy, no need to spot feed often, or even at all really.

[ksatterf]

They continue to grow now with very little feeding. I can see improvement daily with both. Just keeping an eye on them now. Thanks