Anemone smoking?

Heck i would get another nem of the same species and pray for a female muhahaha... omg no nevermind you would have like 3 million of them.. That would be lots of store credit or money though.. :p
 
well, i woke up this morning (without doing a water change last night) eveything is good! water is crystal clear! i'm still going to do a water change after work today.
 
To answer your question, my RBTAs spawn a few times a year, my flowers also spawn a few times a year. I had an LTA for years and the same thing, a few times per year.
 
sandman111 said:
does anyone know how often this could happen? I'm about to change over to a 180 and if this is a regular event i might not want the anemone and clowns?
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In the wild, it happens once, or rarely twice per year, just after the full month in late summer. H. crispa is a synchronous spawner, in that males spawn first and the presence of sperm triggers spawning in females. This can lead to mass spawn events in an aquarium with more than one individual. (Females can spawn by themselves if sperm is not present - the presence of sperm is not required, but is a trigger). They are broadcast spawners (i.e. not internal brooders).

Your anemone is a male, and something is causing it to spawn. I wish I knew what was triggering it - typically anemones kept in captivity will follow the same spawning periodicity as anemones in the wild. This could be good or bad. Spawning requires a lot of energy on the part of the anemone, and is sometimes a sign of extreme stress and a "last act" on the part of the anemone to reproduce before dying. I'm not saying this is the case with your anemone - everything else looks good. I just wish I knew what was triggering it.
 
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the funny thing is i chased down a pink spotted goby that night because it was making sand storms for the last few months. I got lucky and caught him and then turned my koralias off to let the sand settle. minutes after shutting down the pumps it started to spawn.
 
You seem to have a healthy crispa there. Though spawnings are not particularly good for your tank, they only happen occasionally. You're doing a good job with the anemone I can see from the pics of your tank. It's up to you, but if it were me, I would keep the anemone and just be prepared for it spawing a few times a year. You have a good skimmer and a large water volume, both of those go a long way in mitigating the repercussions of an anemone spawning.
 
thanks,everything is good!!!

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Well if it took alot of energy to spawn like in other poster thread then maybe you could throw it a piece of shrimp or sumthing.. soaked in selco to just once.. Just a though.. If it expended that much energy in the spawn..
 
Actually, your filter feeders probably love it. One of the hypothesized benefits of synchronized spawning is that if all anemones spawn at the same time they actually sate the filter feeders for a bit, allowing a greater number of eggs to survive than if anemones spawned randomly. I guess it could be similar to grunion running and turtle hatching. Do it all at once and some will survive...

This is sperm and/or eggs - which is not the same as if your anemone was dead and rotting. The actual amount of biological material is pretty small, even though it clouded your water it probably wasn't more than a tablespoon. I don't think any harm would come of it unless you had a large number of anemones and your tank was smaller.
 
My male sebae has spawned a few times over the past 8 years in my 58 gallon reef. Never had any issues, never did a water change in response to the spawn. Good pics of the spawn!
 
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