BTA eggs, fertilised?

[Flighty]

Just received a BTA shipped to me. It released eggs in the bag, is there any way to know by looking if the eggs are fertilized? I know the anemone was probably in a tank with many of the same species.

 

[Flighty]

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[Toddrtrex]

This is just a guess, but I would think that they weren't. If I remember correctly, they are fertilized in the water column, when a male BTA releases its sperm. Should hook yours up with mine, seeing how I am 99% sure mine released sperm into the tank the other day.

But that is pretty cool either way.

 

[Flighty]

Wow, if only I could get a cup of your tank water...

There are still at least three eggs in the tentacles and I have the others in a krysal(sp?) just in case.

I don't think it would be 100% unlikely that they are fertilized since many types of anemones internally brood and have other methods of fertilising rather than just broadcasting eggs and sperm at the same time. I think as far as we know, BTAs just broadcast the unfertilized eggs, but "as far as we know" doesn't seem to be very complete.

 

[phender]

Take a look here, (after the light study, near the bottom)
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/nov2002/feature.htm

It appears that what you have might not be eggs, but developing larvae!

 

[Flighty]

Whoa! nice, I'll get a better look at them now....

 

[God of thunder]

Do anemone have two eay of reproducing?
i alway thought they would split and reproduce that way...

 

[Toddrtrex]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10888435#post10888435 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Flighty
Wow, if only I could get a cup of your tank water...

And there was extra, the skimmer was going nuts. And my anemone must be feeling really frisky, it split into 3 anemones yesterday.