my rbta will not stop splitting

[BAD FISH]

I have had a rose bubble tip anemone for about a year. It has never moved it always opens up full and beautiful but if I knew over the past year it was going to turn into four I may have tought twice about adding it

 

[Fourevrloud]

same thing every time it hits a certin size it splits witch is quit often it growes so fast and is always in the same spot so i guess its happy

 

[rookie07]

So sell the extras!

 

[BAD FISH]

I would sell them but its hard to get them unless I pull the rocks and don't want to re do them. Plus every time you move stuff you break something else lol but that's how it goes. I'm gonna try to get em to move onto a disk

 

[Fourevrloud]

i have one for sale now

 

[arnaldolex]

face a power head to them then it will move

 

[BAD FISH]

yeah I've done that but with my luck it will move on the plug while I'm at work and right off it before I get home

 

[noelskii]

My RBTA has been doing the same thing. I just get lucky they're all staying within the same rock. I have a total of 4 now. Some of them moved to the glass right after splitting and that's when I would catch them... I must have given away around 5 of them already!

 

[BAD FISH]

ok so I just went home and pulled the rock that had two of them together and get them off. So ill have to start a new thread to sell them although I may give one to a friend

 

[lskywalker5]

it splits if the conditions are right, or wrong.

 

[BAD FISH]

I gave one away to a friend and the other is pending payment. But I still have two in my dt and the way things are going ill have more soon lol

 

[RARECLOWNSNJ]

Rbta

How big of a tank and do you notice that it splits after doing certain things?

Water change, dosing

 

[BAD FISH]

not really no just random its 39gal

 

[RARECLOWNSNJ]

Rbta

Alot of times they split due to changes or condition that are not optimal to them. It may be slight change in salinity or ph or some levels.

Do you use RO water? Any leather corals in the tank?


Splitting is response to survival, the odds of survival are better if your two then one. Some RBTAs i have had for years never split. Even ones i have had that are from Splits dont split.

 

[duke62]

Yes they tend to spit when they feel stressed.

 

[BAD FISH]

yeah I have a Kenya tee the size of a dodge ball that's constantly dropping babies that's why I give them away all the time

 

[BAD FISH]

although i change my lights a couple weeks ago and thats the last time it split

 

[BAD FISH]

and there is a peppermint shrimp that keeps picking at them all the time I've been trying to catch him forever

 

[RARECLOWNSNJ]

Ok

Light Change is def a reason for split. Change in spectrum.

Leathers can be stressors of anemones and peppermint are as well.

Leathers have a slime coat similar to anemones and they can be very territorial.

 

[BAD FISH]

why you think the Kenya trees could annoy the nems?