stringy anemone

[FSU]

got a RBTA that split, so now 2 smaller ones. They both moved to about 2/3 of the way up my tank and directly under the led's and some flow from my power head. Been feeding them pieces of silver sides a couple times a week. Any idea why they arent nice bulbs instead of stringy arms?

[reefreak]

I have always wondered this too.

[Pennies2Cents]

Honestly from what I have experienced, its just a normal part of the process. It takes alot out of an anemone when they split. But in due time they will be back to normal and you will have 2 beauties.

[FSU]

to be honest, it was stringy before they split too lol

[350gt]

Mine was like that..... Never knew why....


And I had him like that for months....... Close to a year.

[Scutterborn]

I've got a mini gbta that has never bubbled in my tank but was bubbled somewhat in the tank I got it from.

I've heard it said that there doesn't seem to any rhyme or reason as to why they do or don't bubble up.


- Ben -

[Zack]

No one knows exactly why they bubble but my theory has always been that it relates to temperature. In my old apt, we kept it at 70 degrees with a tank temp around 76 and I had beautiful bubble tips. One day I decided my tank was getting to cold and turned it up to 78 and the bubbles stopped. Here in my parents house, the home is 78 and tank hits 79 on average and no bubble tips in 3 months.

[Big_Pun]

I think it's water Chem and lighting.. I got one that was bubbled nice at store. put it in my old 70 and it went stringy,and got darker, now i tweaked the parameters a lot in that tank. now in my 150 it has come back to bubble tips and it's even lighten back up to its original color. I don't change things very much in this tank and test to make sure things don't fluctuate.

[Bill S]

Mine are quite often stringy. But, I don't feed mine. I just don't think dumping dead fish into a tank (silversides) makes sense. They are mostly photosynthetic anyway.

It take a couple of weeks after splitting for them to be able to eat.

[FSU]

you may be right. It just states they should be fed a couple times a week. A clownfish feeds them too, does it not? Not really sure how that works....like a bird regurgitating? lol