Is my BTA laying eggs??

[ZCCRX]

Just looked in my tank and saw something strange going on. Take a look.

Can someone tell me what is going on here.

 

[marinebarn]

Whoa!!! What is that?

 

[tahoe61]

Your BTA is spawning, very cool, seems to be alot of that going on lately.

 

[ZCCRX]

Do you think it will foul the tank?

 

[tahoe61]

Do you think it will foul the tank?

Depends on the size of the tank, and the amount of spawn. I myself would turn off the pumps and filters and skimmer, allow it to settle and do a w/c. If your using floss or sponge filtration that needs to cleaned too. Hopefully the fish and inverts will eat it. But again depends on the size of the tank. You should be excited it's not very often that BTA spawn in captivity, they ususally reproduce by cloning only.:fish1:

 

[ZCCRX]

It's a 90 gal with a 30 gal sump. The skimmer stopped making any foam as soon as this happened. The fish, some corals and the hermit crabs were eating some of the eggs and there are only a few left floating around. I'm sure that many eggs have found homes in the live rock.

It's neat, I agree, however what If my reef is taken over by hundreds of BTA's? That would kinda suck.

 

[SaylorsReef]

You won't have to worry about your tank being taken over by hundreds of BTA's. The eggs will become food for your reef. To my knowledge, raising anemones from relased gamets has never been sucessful in captivity.

Very cool though!

 

[clowns101]

If I remember you will need a female and a male BTA to have 100's of anemones!

 

[ZCCRX]

Update!

Update!

Not seeing any baby nems, but now it has split into two. This thing was determined to replicate one way or another, lol!

 

[Toddrtrex]

Not seeing any baby nems, but now it has split into two. This thing was determined to replicate one way or another, lol!

I would double check your parameters (( and anything else with your tank )) to make sure that the spawning and splitting wasn't stress induced.

 

[ZCCRX]

I would double check your parameters (( and anything else with your tank )) to make sure that the spawning and splitting wasn't stress induced.

I'm sure it was stress induced. This set-up is only a month old. I transfered everything over into this 90gal from a 58gal. The lighting is a little more intense than what it was use to. All parameters are perfect. I had very small nitrate only spike (~10-15ppm) on the second week and then it dropped and stayed at 0ppm. I also fed it a piece of fresh swordfish before all this happened.

 

[acrodave]

swordfish my god you must love it. i would spawn also if i was fed swordfish

 

[Toddrtrex]

I'm sure it was stress induced. This set-up is only a month old. I transfered everything over into this 90gal from a 58gal. The lighting is a little more intense than what it was use to. All parameters are perfect. I had very small nitrate only spike (~10-15ppm) on the second week and then it dropped and stayed at 0ppm. I also fed it a piece of fresh swordfish before all this happened.

While I am not glad that this seems to be stress induced, I am glad to hear that it seems to be a one time stress.

This happened to my Haddoni about 9 months ago, and it took a couple of months to get it back to normal, so as long as everything stays in check, don't be too freaked out if it looks "off" for a while.