Anemone follow up

[Pslreefer]

Originally Posted by Aquacrazed

The fact that none of them have died makes me think my theory is true. Anyways, I will just keep doing what I am doing, it seems to be working for me, and the anemones.

Splits have nothing to do with them dying... do some research on bta’s and nems in general. Your “theory” is just an opinion based on your own thoughts.

[davocean]

Originally Posted by Aquacrazed

The fact that none of them have died makes me think my theory is true. Anyways, I will just keep doing what I am doing, it seems to be working for me, and the anemones.

It's an animal that lives 50 -100 years, maybe more.

Typically animals that live that long, and don't have fierce predation just do not need to multiply very often.

I'm not here to argue with you on this, do what you wish, I'm just making sure others reading your advice don't think it's a good idea or acceptable to just toss nems into a one month old tank, this is not responsible reef keeping.

[Gig 'em]

Originally Posted by davocean

It's an animal that lives 50 -100 years, maybe more.

Typically animals that live that long, and don't have fierce predation just do not need to multiply very often.

I'm not here to argue with you on this, do what you wish, I'm just making sure others reading your advice don't think it's a good idea or acceptable to just toss nems into a one month old tank, this is not responsible reef keeping.

I'll back this statement up, it's been observed that when bubble tip anemones are under stress they tend to divide to increase the chances that the species will survive in hostile environments. I've shipped a bubble tip from one state to another and the anemone split the next day in its new tank. I've also seen a friends tank that was left in pretty poor condition where the only thing that survived was his BTAs and they kept splitting whereas everything else he put in would just die due to neglected water parameters. Usually when bubble tips are splitting exponentially, they're splitting as a response to a survival technique. That's the theory at least. Once BTAs are in a healthy stable environment, they don't split *nearly* as quickly.

[Aquacrazed]

Just sold off 10 of them for $300 Hopefully they will find less "stressful" homes! lol