other RBTA split
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SNAKEMANVET
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If you get another one, put my name on it.Seriously i would pay you for it. THANKS DAVID
SNAKEMANVET
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THANKS
SNAKEMANVET
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The reason they are splitting is because of the stress from the tank incident.Large water changes, and over feeding will cause bta's to split.Some will naturally split more than others. How is your new tank doing. Hopefully you will post pics soon .
one of them has been trying to split for about a month now. And then suddenly the other one split today. I'm sure that was stress even though it would spread out to about a 8" oval it was big. Tank is coming along lost several sps they were expposed longest. The close loop stopped again tonight. I guess it may have gotten air in the pipe when I shut it off to do a water change. I'll post pic soon.
Cabin3tGuy
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thats because they have been so stressed ... from so many tank moves .... and Malisa rearranging her aquascaping too often ....
crpeck
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I don't know. They say sometimes you can get them to split if you want to by stressing them. One theory says if you feed them really good and then do a water change that can trigger a split. But I've also heard that there are just some that split and some that just don't.
I've done plenty to stress mine I'm sure, but it just must be one of those that never splits. When I first got it, it kept trying to crawl up and use the teeth on the over flow to split. One piece did come off, went into the overflow and made anemone soup in the skimmer pump. I came home to find my whole tank milky white and smelling of anemone.
Maybe that traumatized it into never splitting again. :rollface:
JK of course ... don't think anemones suffer from childhood trauma.
I was looking back at pictures of my tank. The anemone started in the lower right section of my rocks and stayed there for a few months. I remember when it went on the move .... all of the corals in its path looked like they'd been napalmed. He worked his way to the highest point in the tank with the most flow somewhere in the summer of 2004 and hasn't moved since.
I've done plenty to stress mine I'm sure, but it just must be one of those that never splits. When I first got it, it kept trying to crawl up and use the teeth on the over flow to split. One piece did come off, went into the overflow and made anemone soup in the skimmer pump. I came home to find my whole tank milky white and smelling of anemone.
Maybe that traumatized it into never splitting again. :rollface:
JK of course ... don't think anemones suffer from childhood trauma.
I was looking back at pictures of my tank. The anemone started in the lower right section of my rocks and stayed there for a few months. I remember when it went on the move .... all of the corals in its path looked like they'd been napalmed. He worked his way to the highest point in the tank with the most flow somewhere in the summer of 2004 and hasn't moved since.
Reefdiver77
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Cathy, Bethanie enjoyed feeding yours while you were gone. She thought it was really cool. Hoepfully, Nick and I will make her a reef fanatic someday!!
