female BTA spawning?

jimmyj7090 · #1 01/20/2004, 09:06 PM

hi,

Anybody seen a female BTA spawn before?

Mine is releasing hundreds of tiny brown/green balls. They can be seen in the tentacles and in the body but it's not clear to me how they are coming out. Is this spawning? Is it uncommon to see this?

Anemone · #2 01/20/2004, 11:11 PM

YEs, it sounds like that. Eggs were released through the mouths of my BTAs...basically ejected in groups with a mucous-like connective tissue the quickly separates...

Kevin

dellrio · #3 01/21/2004, 03:23 PM

i thought these things split? why release eggs?

jimmyj7090 · #4 01/22/2004, 12:14 AM

BTA's can reproduce both sexually and asexually. As far as I know successful sexual reproduction in captivity is quite uncommon to almost unheard of. "the reef aquarium vol 2" by sprung and delbeek has pictures of spawned baby bta's but I'm unclear on how common this is. BTA's splitting in captivity is common.

I'm wondering if individual BTA's are prone to either sexual or asexual reproduction, or if the means of reproduction is related to the environment?

Has anyone seen the same BTA spawn and split over time, or have people only seen individual anemones do one or another?

Anemone · #5 01/22/2004, 01:01 AM

Mine have done both, as have Sanjay Joshi's....

FWIW,
Kevin