Spawning BTA Anemone

[38bill]

Thought this was kind of cool. Yesterday morning one of my BTA's was doing its best to impersonate a H. Magnifica. It looked awesome standing about a foot tall, its base at about a 6" dia and the tentacles short and rounded. I had never seen it looking like it did and I didn't have a clue as to why until evening when the lights started to go off and the nem started to spawn. By the time I grabbed the camera the water was already cloudy with spawn but you can still see the raised mouth of the nem "smoking".

 

[Jamie1210]

haha that's a cool picture! what did you do afterwards? did you need to do a huge waterchange to get that stuff out?

 

[38bill]

Didn't do anything after the spawn, just checked the skimmer to make sure it wasn't going wild and then went to bed. The spawn actually shut down the skimmer bubble production like feeding can. This morning the water was clear, skimmer was working normally and everything was as if nothing had happened.