BTA - branching tentacles? How normal is that?

[Angel*Fish]

OK - First this BTA developed another fully functioning mouth...
Now some of the tentacles are branching. One has 4 tips and a couple of others have 3 ???!

Is this just normal BTA stuff? I'll try to get a photo - but just picture a tentacle with another long tentacle growing out of it + 2 shorter ones...

Should I have my house tested for radiation?

[Agilecrux]

its sounds like it starting to split.

how long has this been going on?

[3_high_low]

My BTA has bifurcations in some of the tantacles too. Mine still has only one mouth as far as I can tell.

[Angel*Fish]

Thanks for replies -- sorry, guess I should clarify... it's had the mouth for about a month - was told that it had an arrested split.

It always had 1 or 2 tentacles with an extra little tip at the end. What is different now is that the extra tips are starting low and growing long. Is that what you are talking about 3-high-low?

Maybe it's what they do as they grow larger - this one is definitely growing.

[3_high_low]

mine has around a half dozen tentacles that split at tip.

[Anemone]

I have some that split near the tips, some that split closer to the base, and some that inflate into very weird shapes at the tips. IMO, it's probably an indication of some minor injury at the site of the split - and an indication of the amazing recovery abilities of these anemones.

Kevin

[Angel*Fish]

Thanks Anemone, I was kind of thinking that it might be injury related too... I didn't mention that something apparently lopped off as many as 30 tentacles. They are all doing fine - but it sure was weird... The only thing new in the tank is the new male maroon who I have seen mouthing tentacles - but it seems more like "I really like this thing" behavior not "I think I may have to bite you really hard later".

Any ideas what would bother an anemone? On the side where the tentacles got trimmed bryopsis was pretty thick - I removed most of it last night thinking maybe something "bad" was living in it...