Anemone follow up

[Aquacrazed]

I deleted the two pictures because my personal info was getting exposed. Here is a video of the tank instead: https://youtu.be/20OMEhhIiwE

Again, why is 10 splits in 1 year excessive? I'm trying to understand why but you don't seem to have a good answer. Maybe I am putting them in the great mood to keep reproducing because they are happy, am I wrong?

 

[Aquacrazed]

Can't edit, can't post pictures. This is such a great forum, reminds be of the days when I had a dial-up modem.

 

[Pslreefer]

Anemone follow up

I deleted the two pictures because my personal info was getting exposed. Here is a video of the tank instead: https://youtu.be/20OMEhhIiwE

Again, why is 10 splits in 1 year excessive? I'm trying to understand why but you don't seem to have a good answer. Maybe I am putting them in the great mood to keep reproducing because they are happy, am I wrong?

Yes you are wrong. If they are splitting that much it's due to a stressor event.

There, I also edited my post and here's a pic too!!

 

[Aquacrazed]

Yes you are wrong. If they are splitting that much it's due to a stressor event.

There, I also edited my post and here's a pic too!!

The fact that none of them have died makes me think my theory is true. Anyways, I will just keep doing what I am doing, it seems to be working for me, and the anemones.

 

[BeachVacationer]

Well, BTA can grow to a foot across. I'm in the camp that believes a healthy BTA should grow to similar size when it's well cared for. I personally would like my BTA to grow to that size instead of splitting often and never getting close to it's potential. I suppose if you are into selling BTAs, then frequent splits are probably a plus.

I have a 5 gallon reef tank, got a BTA after 2 years. Soon after I brought it home, it split once but they have not split again. It's probably been about 8 months now since it split. The two are getting bigger, slowly since I don't feed them. I'd rather see mine get bigger than split all the time and have a bunch of small BTAs.

 

[Pslreefer]

The fact that none of them have died makes me think my theory is true. Anyways, I will just keep doing what I am doing, it seems to be working for me, and the anemones.

Splits have nothing to do with them dying... do some research on bta's and nems in general. Your "œtheory" is just an opinion based on your own thoughts.

 

[davocean]

The fact that none of them have died makes me think my theory is true. Anyways, I will just keep doing what I am doing, it seems to be working for me, and the anemones.

It's an animal that lives 50 -100 years, maybe more.

Typically animals that live that long, and don't have fierce predation just do not need to multiply very often.

I'm not here to argue with you on this, do what you wish, I'm just making sure others reading your advice don't think it's a good idea or acceptable to just toss nems into a one month old tank, this is not responsible reef keeping.

 

[Gig 'em]

It's an animal that lives 50 -100 years, maybe more.

Typically animals that live that long, and don't have fierce predation just do not need to multiply very often.

I'm not here to argue with you on this, do what you wish, I'm just making sure others reading your advice don't think it's a good idea or acceptable to just toss nems into a one month old tank, this is not responsible reef keeping.

I'll back this statement up, it's been observed that when bubble tip anemones are under stress they tend to divide to increase the chances that the species will survive in hostile environments. I've shipped a bubble tip from one state to another and the anemone split the next day in its new tank. I've also seen a friends tank that was left in pretty poor condition where the only thing that survived was his BTAs and they kept splitting whereas everything else he put in would just die due to neglected water parameters. Usually when bubble tips are splitting exponentially, they're splitting as a response to a survival technique. That's the theory at least. Once BTAs are in a healthy stable environment, they don't split *nearly* as quickly.

 

[Aquacrazed]

Just sold off 10 of them for $300 Hopefully they will find less "stressful" homes! lol