OK, here goes, spilling the entire story here. I have a mainly SPS tank, the original anemone split, took up too much space, moved, got close to corals and my clam. I started a new tank, used MY SPS tank live rock, MY SPS water, NEW sand. This was a few weeks ago, they will NOT stop moving and appear perfectly healthy.....just keep moving, due to a lower flow IMO? The person who has been helping me says that there is NO way I can keep these alive in a new tank..........my question is HOW IS THIS NEW? The only thing new is the sand, so what, people change their sand all the time, I've done it in my SPS tank without issues. Now that I told the entire story what do you think? For some reason I cannot see how a new tank with old live rock and water with new sand could cause any issues.....I have pods up the ying yang, very little algae, water quality is good, why is this bad? I'm so confused, I'm being told to move them to my SPS tank to get them in a established tank......IMO this tank is established with new sand....it still has pods. I'm confused now, help please. Also I have no clue if anemone clones can change sex, seems far fetched to me? Man I'm getting frustrated, I'm so "up in the air" as to what to do. I don't want to kill the things....obviously. I tried to keep this off from here because I was interested in one thing....the "egg" ball.
What is THIS!!!!!
- Thread starter rynon
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Thanks, I agree with you but needed someone to support my opinion? If they move and look healthy otherwise I guess maybe they're frustrated but healthy? Only one moves daily, the other moves once a week or so. You've been a lot of help, I really appreciate it! 
. I'll do another WC tomorrow...........I'm going to the LFS now to get my water tested........again.
. I'll do another WC tomorrow...........I'm going to the LFS now to get my water tested........again.
timrandlerv10
New member
male nems->male clones.
same for females.
they can release unfertilized eggs, but from what i understand its pretty rare (in captivity anyway).
i'm still looking for pics of eggs if anyone has any...but from what i understand, they dont come from tentacles, they come from the oral disk.
good luck!
tim
same for females.
they can release unfertilized eggs, but from what i understand its pretty rare (in captivity anyway).
i'm still looking for pics of eggs if anyone has any...but from what i understand, they dont come from tentacles, they come from the oral disk.
good luck!
tim
Thanks everyone and timrandlerv10 I figured that but thought I'd ask anyway. I'm starting to think my ammonia test kit was bad? It read .25 or higher and my reef read .2......um no, my reef is 0 for sure. Anyway I'm glad this might finally be settled? I'll feed small amounts from now on. I'll post a pic of the two for fun. Marina, I'll check the trites tonight. Thanks again.
Head to the bottom of this article, click on the close up BTA picture, look at the higher tentacle tips:
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/nov2002/feature.htm
OK, I'm back with a problem, sorry. Not sure what to do at this point. If you read the entire thread you'll get most of the story. So since I last posted I've done a couple water changes and had the crappy looking anemone once and a while. Last night I ran every test I have and every test there is....I believe, everything tested fine (take my word for it please). This morning I get up, take a peek in the tank............can't see inside the tank, it's MILK and it STINKS. Naturally I figured one or both of the anemones were dead, they were both fine????????? So knowing STINKY water and MILKY water are not a good combo for anything living I did something really drastic, I drained the tank all the way down to the sand. I replaced all of the water from my reef tank, pretty much exactly what they're living in, I've been using that water to do my water changes. Anyway I get home from work today and the anemones look a tiny bit ticked off but otherwise fine, they didn't even move. Now to the weirdness, I have nothing in the tank that could have died......no fish, no inverts (other than anemones), nothing, so what happened? These are my only ideas, one split, the baby made it over the overflow and into a pump, no remains other than anemone looking chunks floating in the water. An anemone "got rid of" some tentacles, have no clue why this would happen but that's what it looked like floating in the water. An anemone had a huge puking party and purged everything in it's guts...which is not what this appeared to be but possible? One anemone is wedged in a corner, can't tell if it split, the other looks a LOT smaller but I see no split line. I'm doing a fifty percent water change tomorrow A.M but at this point I may be causing more stress than it's worth? Nitrite is 0, nitrate 0, ammonia .05 (highish). I'm sure had I done nothing the ammonia would have been through the roof high. I really don't know why I'm posting this? Thoughts, opinions? Help? Something please? Thank you.
InsaneClownFish
New member
Hmmm I'm not sure this will be of much help, but it sounds like some type of spawning event- but not quite as drastic. A fellow reefer out here in CTARS had a similar event and I surmised it was from spawning.
My first "gut" feeling would be to get at least one anemone into a quarantine setup ASAP.
My first "gut" feeling would be to get at least one anemone into a quarantine setup ASAP.
Lawrence914
Premium Member
Sorry for the hijack...
But... what happens at 100 posts?
But... what happens at 100 posts?
