My anenome split

[NikonNurse]

All my water parameters are in great shape....lo and behold I have 2 bulb tip anenomes now (overnight) and they look exactly alike and healthy...about 2 inches away from each other..

I've looked everywhere and see that this might be bad (but water quality okay)...and I really had no indication that it was coming....it likes to be on the bottom with its foot under a small ledge on the rock and the rest of it out but I looked at it every day and really saw no sign of stress....


anyone heard of this??


Courtney

[tstone]

Bubble tips will do this and its quite common. What color is your Bubble tip?
If its a rose colored one I may be interested in a trade. ;-)

[pwhitby]

Its very common, some do it as frequently as every 4 weeks.

[NikonNurse]

It is a green one....my rose is king of the tank......but no signs of splitting....(but neither did the green).

[Okiemike]

Congrats on the split, I have had mine almost 2yrs and nothing. Granted it has grown like crazy and is about 10" diameter but no split.

[Little Bitty]

I think one of my RBTAs is getting ready to split again. It Split 3 ways about 2 months ago.

[tstone]

Originally posted by Little Bitty
I think one of my RBTAs is getting ready to split again. It Split 3 ways about 2 months ago.

Never seen one split 3 ways. Thats cool.

[Dtking]

has anyone ever heard of one splitting and then growing back together and then a couple of weeks later splitting again?!

[peaceinusa]

Are there any signs of an upcoming split, or does it just happen?

[Little Bitty]

tstone-

The RBTA was XXXLarge before it split 3 ways. After it split the splits were still around 6"

[GS-Rock]

my seabe is about 16 inches, i have had it for about 5 months but no split as of yet. i forgot to add i think it ate one of the first clowns, i got a new clown bigger then its month so far so good. Dtking i never heard of such a thing of them spliting and joining back together again

[Dtking]

it happened to goose007!... i saw it, it had split, then joined back together and then split again!!!! It was crazy!! so far we are at two weeks at them being apart!

[Little Bitty]

My RBTA also ate a baby clown when I first got it.

[GS-Rock]

little bitty well you know how clowns like to feed anenome and some time they really like to stick the food either in the tenticals or in the mouth, well the first one i had, it had an bad way of really wanting to stick the food deep in its mouth, well one day the clown that my sone named nemo was gone... i told my crying 2 year old he went on the EAC.... just like the movie

[Travis L. Stevens]

The most amazing Anemone/Clownfish thing I've ever seen was a shipment of Anemones came in and an Orange Skunk Clownfish popped out of the mouth of a carpet anemone. He took the entire trip from collection to holding tank in the gullet of an anemone.

[papagimp]

Originally posted by Dtking
it happened to goose007!... i saw it, it had split, then joined back together and then split again!!!! It was crazy!! so far we are at two weeks at them being apart!

One of my frogspawns did this, split into 2 mouths, grew back together, split again, grew back again, he's finally gotten with the program though and has grown new skeletal material for the new heads. I just got a new RBTA from BigScott not too long ago, it split within a couple days of being put in the tank. Both specimens have doubled the orginal size in less than a month. Pretty cool, now if only the clowns would host in em....ugh!

[papagimp]

Originally posted by GS-Rock
... i told my crying 2 year old he went on the EAC.... just like the movie

That's so sad...funny, yet sad.