Sexual spawning anemone

Thepopo

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Hey guys! i just wanted to know if anyone has had a anemone spawn in their tank. I don't mean division but a true sexual spawn. I had a hectarate magnifica that passed away a few months back due to her wandering around and falling upside down while i was traveling. Bacterial infections did the rest. Anyway its been a few months and i had noticed a small anemone near to where she used to be. At first i thought it might be a aptasia since for some crazy reason i have kept one in the tank that is now close to 7 inches long. Anyway its been a few months and now i am sure its a anemone. You can see her red base(mom was purple, thats why i think its a sexual spawn) and her tentacles with little white tips on it.. She even balls up when she catches a isopod or two. Any advice on how to keep her healthy? She is at the bottom of the tank underneath one of the power heads. Barely gets light down there but she seems to love it . I would move her but at this point I be afraid to hurt her. What would be their growth rate from a few mm wide to a few inches? months? years? Just trying to get perspective on how fast she will grow up. I haven't even tried to spot feed her.
 
Did you have 2 Mags in your tank? If you only had one, it couldn't be from sexual reproduction. Any chance of getting a picture of it?
 
My bet is corynactis or psuedocorynactis. They're little corallimorphs that are generally translucent in our tanks, with colors ranging from pink, to red, to purple, to yellow. The real key identifier is the little white balls on the tips of the tentacles.

Kevin
 
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