Breeding Sea anemones!

[BonsaiNut]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8440545#post8440545 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by bencozzy
i dont believe getting anemones to breed is the hard part its getting the larvea to survive and settle out.

then raising a enormous number of anemones which produce huge amounts of waste and need prestine water conditions, that will be the challenge.

S. gigantea can be raised from the larval stage to adulthood on natural sunlight alone. Settling out can be accomplished with the proper facilities - they do it with moon jellyfish at about every public aquarium I have been to on the west coast. In my opinion it is just a question of "when" not "if".

 

[OrionN]

Anna,
Welcome to Reefcentral.
I hope you will be successful with other host species also, especially with H. magnifica and S. gigantea. These are the two most beautiful and difficult to keep host anemones. IMO, the number of these anemone harvested are huge for each one that live in captivity for at least 1 year. I understand S. gigantea have been spawned and raised in captivity but never widely commercialize. This is really too bad. I would love to get one.

 

[Flighty]

Exactly, OrionN. And add to that that the small size of a juvenile would quite possibly not have the serious issues in transit that the huge adults do. They also would likely become more suited to tank life over a few generations.

I know there probably wouldn't be a very large number of hobbyists wanting a tank breed magnifica or gigantea, but wouldn't it be nice to stop taking them from the reefs and maybe repopulate some of the depleted areas.

 

[shauns fish]

breeding condylactus

breeding condylactus

i export fish and inverts from the dominican republic, we have been stopped fishing by bad weather for the last month during this time the anemones started reproducing, to date 107 have been reproduced, not by plan but by accident, the tank is 1100 gallons with an undergravel filter and a 4000 gph pump and skimmer
the condys live on the gravel and i feed them flakes broken up and mixed with water so when i feed them it moves around the tank