Sebae Splitting....

[bluetmax]

Has anyone ever had a sebae anemone split? I have one that was purchased around seven months ago by my fiance' that was put in her tank under PCs. It never really looked healthy, so after a month or so I took it out and put it in my 60 gallon SPS cube under 400 watt halides and 2 65 watt actinic PCs. I have never once fed it directly (mainly because I didn't want it to get too large too quickly and hog precious room for SPS corals and clams), but I do add oyster eggs, chromamax, and phyto max to my tank. It has at least quadrupled in size, and for a few weeks the ocellaris clowns wouldn't even acknowledge its prescence, but now they are hosting in it (probably have for two months), and it is without a doubt splitting. I've seen bubble tips do this, and I worked at an LFS for a very long time while in high school, but never a sebae...Just wondering if this was a common occurence.

 

[davocean]

Wow, your sebae went from waay low light to waaay bright!
I've had my sebae for 5yrs now(one in avatar) and it's never split.
Almost wish it would, suckers huge.
Let me know the outcome, I'm curious as well.

 

[bluetmax]

I'm going to take pictures of it each day, if it is indeed splitting at least that way I'll have pictures of it "in progress". I loaned my camera out, and I should have it back tomorrow. She had it in her 20 gallon long under 65 watt PCs. It was acclimated to the halides using window screen over a two week period, but it never moved from where I originally placed it in the bottom of the tank beside a piece of live rock in the sand. Its nowhere near as large as the one in your avatar though...All I can do at this point is watch and wait, but I am interested in hearing if anyone else has had one split.

 

[Rare Angels]

Sounds cool, please post some pictures of the process to better document it.

Dave

 

[phender]

I had one for 13 years and it never split. I heard from a guy once that said his sebae formed small buds that would detach from the base. I was never able to authenticate his claim, although he had a pic that looked like a baby. I am anxious to see your pictures.

This is the supposed baby

This was the "mother"

 

[reefman13]

Yeah, would def. like to see pics.

 

[shobo]

Pics please!