Woke up to a surprise this morning... RBTA splitting!

[jimmy_beaner]

I don't believe the mouth was involved in the split as one has an in tact mouth and the other has nothing

 

[Chromey316]

I wish my OBTA would split on good terms, Id like to find another,

 

[elder luis]

I don't believe the mouth was involved in the split as one has an in tact mouth and the other has nothing

Jimmy, you can believe, the mouth is an important part of splitting as the base pedal. If you manually cut the anemone and do it wrong, without cutting the mouth, the new part (mouthless) will die soon. I has this experience one year ago.

 

[jimmy_beaner]

Jimmy, you can believe, the mouth is an important part of splitting as the base pedal. If you manually cut the anemone and do it wrong, without cutting the mouth, the new part (mouthless) will die soon. I has this experience one year ago.

I never said it wasn't important. The RBTA split naturally... I didn't cut it. Therefore, I have no choice in whether the mouth was involved or not.

 

[408Reefer]

+1 on waiting for a full heal before feeding.

 

[jimmy_beaner]

 

[jimmy_beaner]

 

[elder luis]

Wondeful images! Congratuations for the new baby! :clown:

My RBTA has the oral disk dark green and half tentacles. Yours is fully red! Great!:bounce3:

 

[jimmy_beaner]

Finally took some decent pictures of the RBTA and its clone:

And found this this morning in the tank... fallen off tentacle?

 

[jimmy_beaner]

As mentioned earlier, I was a little concerned that the clone didn't have a mouth (likely most due to the fact I knew how much I had to feed the RBTA when I had it under PC lighting.). It looks like the LEDs have taken care of the clone long enough for it to form a mouth!

I'm pretty sure this guy is eating as well. The tentacles pick off floating food and I've seen them move it towards where the mouth is now. You can also see little tentacle buds for new tentacle growth. Looks like I'm on the way to two healthy RBTAs