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christerrell2k3
Thu, 24th Mar 2005, 02:35 AM
Well i bought a wonderful looking RBTA at River City the 4 days ago, and now i have 2 and i think its spltting again...

Will post pictures later today!
GaryP
Thu, 24th Mar 2005, 08:45 AM
Anemones commonly split after being shipped. Its their response to stress. Every time I ever moved my tanks I would end up with a bunch of split anemones.
DeletedAccount
Thu, 24th Mar 2005, 12:33 PM
Congrats Chris!
jaded
Thu, 24th Mar 2005, 01:18 PM
its a beautiful bouncing baby bubble
blueboy
Thu, 24th Mar 2005, 06:09 PM
my BTA hardly stays in one place for more than a week! every morning it's the first thing i do is go check on the bubble to see what it's stinging now.
GaryP
Thu, 24th Mar 2005, 07:27 PM
Gary, what do you do toss them in the sink? :P hehe j/k I've moved a bunch of times and my RBTA has never split. In fact, he's been on the same rock through 2 houses and 4 tanks, not including the rubbermaid trash cans he's spent a few days in at various stages.

Try moving across South Carolina, then to New Orleans, and then back to Texas. You'll be overrun with anemones. I started with 3 LTAs. Every time I moved they would split 3:1 and plus few times in between. If I had kept them all I would have ended up with something like 81 anemones.

I've had people ask me how to get their anemone to split and I usually say, "I can tell you what has worked for me. Put it in a bag and head east on I-10, when you see the atlantic ocean, turn around and come back."

Moving a few miles isn't a real move Josh, at least to an anemone.
christerrell2k3
Thu, 24th Mar 2005, 08:11 PM
http://img17.exs.cx/img17/8218/dsc002210vv.jpg - Old guy up at tank and new little guy on the bottom.

http://img211.exs.cx/img211/268/dsc002125kk.jpg - The old guy, im not sure if hes spltting again or not

http://img211.exs.cx/img211/5586/dsc002088qt.jpg - A closeup up the new guy.
Reef69
Thu, 24th Mar 2005, 08:13 PM
I want 1!!!!!!! lol
GaryP
Fri, 25th Mar 2005, 08:09 AM
Larry told me he has an ultra grade RBTA (deepwater) that has grown huge and instead of splitting like we normally think of, it keeps dropping off small frags.
christerrell2k3
Fri, 25th Mar 2005, 01:33 PM
that would be insane

Is there anything i should be doing extra for the little guy? Or just leave him alone for a tad bit
jaded
Fri, 25th Mar 2005, 02:27 PM
let budha guide you

sorry I just couldn't resist