Rbta

[ct_vol]

Well, woke up this morning, and was brushing my teeth, when Ashley exclaimed, "Honey, Look at the Anenome!!!" I was like, oh crap, it died... But low and behold, it had split... Pleasant surprise, and now I don't have to buy one for my new nano...

Here's my Black Ocellaris thinking "Oh no, what happened to my home!!!" Excuse the salt drip and unclean glass...

Other side

Front shot

 

[Pandarian]

Nice. Put me on the list for future clones

 

[Angela Short]

very cool!

 

[ReefRacer]

I don't want to sound like a pessimist but when mine split it was downhill from there. It is a sign of stress with these difficult creatures. I am not an expert on anenomes but I think mine didn't like my 10k halides. I had it like 6 months and my clown was in it. It split and the halves went under the rockwork and wouldn't come out. Then one of the halves split again and all of them died eventually. I switched to 14k lights and my zoos took off and some other coral started growing so I wonder if my anenome would have lived under these lights...
Good luck

 

[gflat65]

I've always seen splitting as either a response to feedings, or to extreme stress. I ran some experiments a few years ago with my GBTA's. I could consistently get them to split in 12 days or less by getting them used to a normal feeding of two or three krill once a week. Then I upped it to 3-4 krill every othere day and its splitsville. The theory is that they need more food for increased metabolism to split (they want to split, as it helps ensure some part of them survives), so more food allows the metabolic shift to split off.

I also had a crash (bad RO membrane that flushed everything it had filtered back into make up water and water change water) and went from 2 anemones to 8 in three days. They split as a survival mechanism. I fixed the problem and all 8 quickly became nuisances... They grow like weeds for me in good conditions or bad.

 

[gflat65]

BTW, run some carbon and plan a water change. Sometimes the stuff released when they split can be pretty nasty.

 

[ct_vol]

Gary thanks... I've been feeding it silver sides and krill once to twice a week... They've been doing well, and staying out like normal... I was planning on doing about a 75% water change tomorrow... I've been too busy to do it sooner... Damn work and Christmas shopping getting in the way of my reefing...