FishAreFriends2
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I don't think I ever came across a thread mentioning a different nem besides a bta split. Actually I might have but that was a forced split on a carpet. So any ways has anyone seen any other nems split besides a bta?
Has other nems besides btas have split?
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davocean
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You know, there's been conflicting nem info this week, one sebae spawning all by itself when I thought you needed two, so I don't doubt that anything is possible, it's just not what I've read over the years here.
Mine was under PC's first year and a half, no spot feed, just 2 clarks spitting brine mysis.
Last 4 years under MH/T5 combo, one silverside a week, mysis/cyclopzeze 3-4 times a week.
Mine was under PC's first year and a half, no spot feed, just 2 clarks spitting brine mysis.
Last 4 years under MH/T5 combo, one silverside a week, mysis/cyclopzeze 3-4 times a week.
MM WI
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thats great, I had a carpet spawn that had been in a tank with no other carpets, the spawn was the same color as the carpet and it spawned gallons. If I had not been home to do a water change I would have lost the whole tank. I think I still have some video of the event. This goes to my belief that you should always listen to the general wisdom but use caution in its application. - mark
E.J. Coral
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What type of carpet? do you have any more details you could share?
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12736376#post12736376 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by MM WI
FishAreFriends2
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this is getting interesting
E.J. Coral
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bump for the carpet info.
Massengill
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My green Haddon's Carpet looked like it recently split when I bought it. It's mouth was not centered in it's oral disc. I have had it for about 3 months now under good lighting and feeding it 2-3 times a week. It has easily doubled in size and it's mouth is starting to relocate back to the center due to it's oral disc growing around it.
Slakker
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Haddoni's could probably survive manual propagation, but I don't believe anyone's had one actually split.
There are a few atlantic species that split, as well. MM WI, if we're talking about the LTA you posted in that other thread, I'm 100% confident that it's Entacmea quadricolor.
There are a few atlantic species that split, as well. MM WI, if we're talking about the LTA you posted in that other thread, I'm 100% confident that it's Entacmea quadricolor.
MM WI
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sorry for the delay in response, the anemone was a Stichodactyla haddoni that I have pictures of in my gallery with the brown LT. They were in the tank together for several years. The tank was torn down and moved to a new location. It spawn soon after a stressful tank move. So the spawning was likely a response to stress. I sold them both about about a year ago to replace them with a more colorful carpet and a BT. The carpet had begun to eat more expensive fish than ever before and the LT had too large a reach and was too aggresive chemically to the surronding corals.
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MM WI
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One more, I have heard acounts of H. magnifica splitting and suspect that most anemones could reproduce by splitting given the right conditions and right individual. I suspect though that many would require some stressor. Goes against the more desirable goal of keeping our tanks healthy. - Mark
E.J. Coral
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12745529#post12745529 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by MM WI
I'm 100% certain the slakker is over-confident.
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I am 100% certain that you are correct
Especially becuase he has never kept an anemone of any type.H. magnifica splitting is fairly common, and well documented despite the lack of healthy specimens in captivity. Furthermore, I wouldn't be suprised if mertensi, or gigantea, for example, had an undiscovered ability for asexual reproduction ( i can pray can't I?). There just aren't that many healthy specimens in captivity, for a good sampling. However LTAs are commonly kept.... i mean, every anemone geek has had one. If they split, I am sue that it would be documented
What type of chem do you do?
NanoReefWanabe
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i have watched my Stichodactyla Taptatum split...was kinda gross to watch though..not sure why he did...but i do feed him every two days...
MM WI
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Really, thats great, a carpet splitting, tell me, the pictures I see of these look just like a small haddoni, how do you distinquish the Tapetum from a smaller haddoni? I am not familier with these, I see a picture of one that looks about eight inches across, what colors to they come in? I cant recall seeing them for sale either. - Mark
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marc price
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12745529#post12745529 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by MM WI
I'm 100% certain the slakker is over-confident.
i can see how slaker would think that the "brown LT" is a BTA. it's more a challenge to prove without seeing if prominent verrucae are present on the column, can you confirm that (a photo of such would be great)? it's color typical of E. quadricolor and M. doreenisis as well but difficult to pinpoint which as they don't match from one photo to the next due to color shift, white balance, etc.. that it was so damaging of nearby corals is another consequence of E. quadricolor too.<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12747064#post12747064 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by E.J. Coral
I am 100% certain that you are correct
rather than attacking credibility how about presenting further proof? that said, although i don't know of Macrodactyla dorrensis splitting i did read in Jullian Sprung's Invert. A Quick Ref. Guide "growth and reproduction (by fission)", so unless i'm not getting "by fission" i would say that it's poss. it was a lta which split?
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