Baby Haddoni, I think?

[CIGARSC351W]

I think my red Haddoni is pushing out a baby. It must have known what I was thinking before being advised against it. Does anyone have experience with this happening? Sorry for the poor photo. I'm just learning how to use the camera.

 

[OrionN]

Is it free or is it attached to the larger anemone?
This is very interesting. Keep us update.

 

[D-Nak]

Was the anemone injured, or could it have been attacked by a predator (possibly at night)? I've seen a nem with a similar appear when it was injured and was trying to slough off the dead tissue.

 

[CIGARSC351W]

The "bump" is still attached and appears to be forming a mouth. Maybe its wishful thinking. I'll get some better pics up tomorrow night. It hasn't been injured to my knowledge. The only fish in the system with it are a pair of clowns.

 

[bradleym]

Is there any chance this anemone is new? Like the last 2-3 months?

 

[CIGARSC351W]

Is there any chance this anemone is new? Like the last 2-3 months?

I've owned it for about 8 weeks and the vendor had it for a month. So yes about 3 months. The bump started as a discolored spot about 2 weeks ago.

 

[bradleym]

Any chance it was 6 weeks ago? I got this pic from a friend on a "shopping trip" on February 1st. It's possible that it retracted the strange growth until it settled in.

 

[CIGARSC351W]

Any chance it was 6 weeks ago? I got this pic from a friend on a "shopping trip" on February 1st. It's possible that it retracted the strange growth until it settled in.

Possible. I'll have to check the cc statement. It does look uncommonly similar to say the least. Any thoughts what it is? The bump has a white spot in the center.

 

[OrionN]

Other people have had this happen in the past. I have never heard it formed a live anemone and detached. Several were cut from the mother and died. Lost to f/u on the other.
My advice is to leave it alone. It may form a mouth. If it does you may want to feed it. Don't cut it from the mother or it will not survide.

 

[bradleym]

IMO it is a common result of damage or injury. Anemones can develop growths like this during the healing process. My opinion is that it is just that. I could be wrong, but I've never heard of a Haddoni reproducing by budding. At least not successfully. "Baby anemones" have been witnessed growing or forming on occassion, but I have never seen a resulting separation where you end up with two healthy anemones. As Minh has mentioned, others have tried to remove them, but they do not survive on their own.

 

[CIGARSC351W]

I'm in no hurry. Ill leave it alone and update if anything noteworthy happens.

 

[phender]

Here is a series of pictures of what happened to mine. It started as a bud similar to yours. After a little while, it flipped itself inside out and popped out on the bottom of the disk. At this point there was actually a hole through the middle of the bud. It was like this for a couple more weeks and grew a little larger than in the picture. Unfortunately this is as far as it got. My orange skunk (the percs in the pic were only in there a couple days) decided to make it her goal in life to swim though the tiny little hole. Eventually she did, but not without ripping the anemone all the way out to the edge. The anemone didn't recover from the tear and died a couple months later.
There was a guy on this board whose haddoni budded like this and the bud ended up almost as large as the mother. After a year, they were still attached at the foot, and he stopped updating the thread (and left the board).
We don't know if either of the events (his or mine) were are result of an injury or it was reproductive behavior.