What's happening with my anemones???

[Mabu]

I looked in my tank tonite and both my anemones are expelling something out of their center. It is coming out looking like "smoke" in the water. Are they spawning, dying? The water seems more cloudy.... any ideas?

 

[danmhippo]

Does the tissue look like melting? If not, very likely, yours are spawning!! Free food for your corals!! Congrad!

 

[oafie2244]

How much smoke, or is a stringy substance. If stringy it is poop, smoke might meen it is expelling spores what kind of anenomes do you have?

 

[Anonymous]

congratulations

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[Mabu]

It's not poop. It's as if the anemone exhaled smoke... really interesting!! I wish I'd now taken a picture of it... what blew me away was both anemones were doing it at different sides of the tank. I'd never seen anything like it.

Should I shut off my protein skimmer? Is there any chance they will reproduce in some form?

 

[Anonymous]

Could possibly be a spawn or it could just be liquid waste being expelled. But if they are both doing it at the same time,I go with a spawning. Tentative congrats.

GL

Dan

 

[stilmas]

My anemones aren't expelling "smoke", but my mushroom rock expells "smoke" every so often. It's a white puff that comes out of the same hole in the rock and almost forms a smoke ring. Any ideas?

 

[Anonymous]

mabu,
did it look anything like this?

 

[Mabu]

Yes, yes that's it! It was so incredible to watch... and both anemones at opposite ends of the tank started doing it.... I wish I had taken a picture - I didn't know how long it was going to go on. It was so weird...

Anybody know what triggers the spawn? How often it happens?