RBTA splitting need help!

[Ventralis321]

My Rose anemone split just yesterday and from what i can see it created a new daughter anemone. But the mother anemone is still trying to split again. It looks like it's having a hard time splitting the second time. It has been half split for about half a day now and it doesn't look like it's splitting anymore. The part that did split looks like it's healing but the part thats still splitting is look stringy but not too stringy. Should i give it some time or intervine. Also i did some major changes to my tank as far as flow and i took out and fragged some huge acro colonies and then did a big water change. I think thats what triggered the split. The anemone hasn't split for 3-4 years that i've had it and then all of a sudden. I hope it's ok.

 

[chewie]

I had a RBTA split it's foot almost to the mouth and stopped. It had 2 feet for about a year and a half. Then I decided to move the nem to another tank and it was attached to 2 rocks, so I "helped" it finish the job by SLOWLY pulling the 2 apart.

The split was successful and it healed well. 1 of the splits split again 2 days later. All 3 nems are just fine.

I'd give it a day or 2 to see if it can finish on it's own.

 

[cschweitzer]

Always seems to happen in threes. My BTA split and three weeks later split again.

 

[RedSonja]

Re: RBTA splitting need help!

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9548123#post9548123 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Ventralis321
My Rose anemone split just yesterday and from what i can see it created a new daughter anemone. But the mother anemone is still trying to split again. It looks like it's having a hard time splitting the second time. It has been half split for about half a day now and it doesn't look like it's splitting anymore. The part that did split looks like it's healing but the part thats still splitting is look stringy but not too stringy. Should i give it some time or intervine. Also i did some major changes to my tank as far as flow and i took out and fragged some huge acro colonies and then did a big water change. I think thats what triggered the split. The anemone hasn't split for 3-4 years that i've had it and then all of a sudden. I hope it's ok.

Can you get pictures of where it is splitting the second time? How "even" was the split, does the other one have a good piece of the mouth with it?

I have had bta's begin to split after being shipped to me then decide they were happy in their new home and stop splitting and heal back together. It might do that. Or if it decides to continue splitting it may take longer the second time from reduced energy from the first split. I'll admit I got impatient when one of my 10" RBTA's took four days to split and "helped" it along on the last inch of tissue with a razor-sharp knife, but I don't know if I'd do that to one that has already split itself recently.

-Sonja

 

[ATX aquarist]

I've seen anemones split and then a week or so later split one more time. It's plausable. :uzi:

 

[Ventralis321]

Well i've been monitoring the anemones progess. The daughter anemone is looking good but is in a place i'd like to move it but can't cause it's foot is deep in the rocks. I hope to get a chance later. As for the main anemone it's still split in only one area and the sides have healed but the middle part is a huge mouth still. I've noticed its kind of acting like two anemone connected to one. One side forms a circle and the smaller side forms it's own circle. I hope it heals together or splits soon. i'll try to get a pic but it's hard to get the pic of it's insides cause it doesn't want to expose itself.

 

[RedSonja]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9557047#post9557047 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Ventralis321
Well i've been monitoring the anemones progess. The daughter anemone is looking good but is in a place i'd like to move it but can't cause it's foot is deep in the rocks. I hope to get a chance later. As for the main anemone it's still split in only one area and the sides have healed but the middle part is a huge mouth still. I've noticed its kind of acting like two anemone connected to one. One side forms a circle and the smaller side forms it's own circle. I hope it heals together or splits soon. i'll try to get a pic but it's hard to get the pic of it's insides cause it doesn't want to expose itself.

Definitely don't irritate it just to get a picture, I just thought it'd help to see if you could get one w/o disturbing it. Glad to hear the other split is doing well, here's hoping they both heal up just fine whether they end up being 3 clones or just two.

-Sonja

 

[Ventralis321]

how long does it usually take to heal?