Anemone Eggs?

IrezumiHurts · May 2, 2023

I just bought this huge black widow anemone, during acclimation it spit out a ton of these tiny yellowish spheres. Ive never seen this before. Is this nem about to die?

I did a very slow drip acclimation, probably almost 2 hours. My drip bucket was temp controlled. Tank is 3 years old, already has 4 other nems in it including a black widow so this isnt a new tank or wacky parameters. I run UV and chemipure blue to cut down on the warfare. The store was within 2 SG of my tank so its not like it had far to go, so im not really sure what i could have done different.

I have cipro on hand and a small QT tank nursing a sebae ready just in case

SlugSnorter · May 2, 2023

That's what it looks like to me. Maybe shipping stress and then being exposed to light trigged it to spawn? Should be okay, as long as everything else looks normal.

IrezumiHurts · May 2, 2023

SlugSnorter said:
That's what it looks like to me. Maybe shipping stress and then being exposed to light trigged it to spawn? Should be okay, as long as everything else looks normal.

Thanks for the vote of confidence. Appeared to be fine this morning, mouth is closed, foot is holding strong on the rock i placed it on. I had no idea these things spawned, did some research and it seems this isn't super common to catch it in the act. Jury seems to be out on if it's just really happy or thought it was about to die, probably both conditions can be true but I'm sure it was the latter for her on this occasion.