RBTA has second mouth/tentacles/column growing from side

[Shia]

WOW, fantastic. Please keep this updated and post pics as things change. If that doesn't look like a bud then I don't know what is.

 

[xrayjeeper83]

Lol...... Still waiting to see a photo of a 'bud.' Until then, I rest my case.

Gonna admit that's a bud?

 

[BonesCJ]

New picture

I have taken to feeding the Nem more directly and the growth of the new RBTA has definitly increased, more tentacles and sticks out at least a extra half inch now.

 

[OrionN]

Lol...... Still waiting to see a photo of a 'bud.' Until then, I rest my case.

I think he want the OP to pick a flower bud and stick it into the anemone. Then take a picture.
:lol2:

 

[BonesCJ]

Quite frankly I could care less about the exact terminology, what I think is really cool is that this RBTA appears to be reproducing in a different fashion than the standard splits most of us are familiar with. I plan to keep taking photos as the new Nem develops and hopefully seperates at some point. If not I will have a 2 headed RBTA :-D

 

[cet98]

LOL....I think your confusing the term "budding", with regards to BTA reproduction, as an actual bud like a flower...but that would be incorrect. The term "bud" or "budding" refers to the BTA actually splitting naturally.
So while the term is correct, the image of a little BTA sprouting out of the foot of the nem is not...

well.....I can admit that I was wrong and that I just learned something today...

thanks OP

 

[Anemone]

Quite frankly I could care less about the exact terminology, what I think is really cool is that this RBTA appears to be reproducing in a different fashion than the standard splits most of us are familiar with. I plan to keep taking photos as the new Nem develops and hopefully seperates at some point. If not I will have a 2 headed RBTA :-D

Thank you for taking the pics. Mine budded before the time of everybody having a digital camera!

Kevin

 

[ClippersTown]

Definitely looks like a bud. If it was splitting, wouldnt that mean it would have another separate foot? Looks like a bud lol. Pretty cool

 

[sjwitt]

This is very cool. Thanks for posting. So how do the two separate themselves in this situation? I've never seen or heard of this type of reproduction so I'm facinated. Do the two respond differently? Like ... if you feed the one do they both respond? I'd love to see some video of this guy.

 

[BonesCJ]

One step ahead of ya, click on the pics to see the videos.

I shot these two videos this morning, one from the front and one from the side.
I am really lucky as my RBTA is in a corner of the overflow at the surface and the new one is growing on the front of the larger RBTA, so I can get some really cool shots.

Front




Side




My perc resented the intrusion of the camera, however she appears to treat both mouths as one part of the whole, wriggling in the main body of tentacles as well as the smaller one.

 

[Beandawg]

Very cool pics, thanks for sharing.

 

[sjwitt]

Yes, very cool... thanks. So does anybody know if they will eventually separate?

 

[Anemone]

Yes, they do eventually separate. The bud "pinches off" and becomes a separate individual.

Kevin

 

[BonesCJ]

Question: When the new Nem seperates from the original will it crawl away or float away? I am concerned because they live about 6 inches from a Korallia 2 Powerhead.

 

[Azedenkae]

Most likely float away I would think.

 

[BonesCJ]

the new New is getting bigger and bigger, probably a 1/4 now the size of the parent. Wondering just how big it will get before it disconnects

 

[rogerwilco357]

Cool pics . It may float off so moving the power head may be in its best interest. But I am betting on it becoming A two headed animal if so then what? from bud to ?

 

[BonesCJ]

This may be hard to believe but it has been 5 months since this post first went up and the RBTA has not seperated yet! The main body is close to a foot across and the one on the side is probably 4-5 inches across. I will get new pictures soon.

 

[slief]

I've got a couple RBTA's in my tank. One of which is huge at over 2' across. Over the last month or two, I've noticed a large bubble like growth on one side of it that seems to be growing. Almost like it's sprouting off a new anemone or budding. I've had BTA's split and this is nothing like any splitting that I've ever seen. The bubble is almost baseball sized. I've had this anemone for years and he is obviously very healthy. I'm just not sure what to make of this bubble like growth as I have never seen anything like this with any anemone that I have had in the last 18 or so years. My water quality is pristine so I'm sure that has nothing to do with it.

I corresponded with Dana Riddle who looked at my photos and his thought was that it could be budding as well.



You can see it on the left side of these two pictures.

A couple close ups.