xmas eve gift

[spinoleo]

my rbta finally split after 5yrs so now I have 2 6" rbta's pics to follow later today '

 

[spinoleo]

bad pics but both are about 6" across

 

[Eastamherstbias]

What caused it to split?

 

[spinoleo]

for the first time when doing a water change I didn't have the water at the same temp as the tank. tank and sump are about 180g and did a 35g change

 

[der_wille_zur_macht]

I've had luck "forcing" splits when I wanted to by (gently) inducing stress. I've never done it with temperature like you're describing, but I've often noticed they'll split if you change things in their routine - i.e. feed them every day for a week or two, then totally stop the food and they'll split within a few days. Of course you need to keep their health as a priority when doing this...

Then again they've pretty much always split like rabbits for me, I've never really had to try. In fact the constant splitting is why I don't have plans to put one in my big tank, I don't want a million little clones climbing all over the place in a year or two.

 

[spinoleo]

This is the first split in 5 yrs it was about 14 to 16" arcross for a long time