rfgonzo
Active Member
Is they're more to an anemone's then we know? I personally have no clue, but would like to share a littly story. I purchased a small 2 inch RBTA at a frag swap back in January of 2015. Everything was good and I got lucky right off the bat. (stayed where I put it within 3 inches) for the first 2 months it was looking happy and healthy. I decided to feed it a pea size of shrimp for the first time. Within 3 days it split ( ok ) At this point both RBTA stayed close together. A few more weeks went by and I fed the same size shrimp again, this time to both. Another few day went by a the original RBTA split agin. Now I have 3 RBTA. All 3 stayed together and I stopped feeding cuz I didn't want more splits. Here's where it gets interesting. This is in a 210 reef take with a 75 gallon refugium and 55 gallon sump on the next floor down. All good again for months each one about 5 to 6 inches at this point then one morning, I notice only 2 RBT's (HUM weird) That night I hear my bean animal plumbing toilet surging. Not thinking anything I just clean all pipes. Still surging all day and night for a week. Driving me crazy, I like a quiet reef. Then one night it's dead silent again. Couple more day go by and I go downstairs to turn on my RODI unit and I notice a pale white deathly looking shriveled up RBTA in my refugium. OMG That's when it hit me. The nem was in my pipes and causing the drain blockage. Mind you my overflows have a cover on them, so this 5 or 6 inch nem went through the teeth of the overflow. I took it out and put it in my daughters 32 biocube figuring it would be easies for me to observe and bring back to health from the stress of no light for at least a week or more. It stayed in her tank and got better for about 6 months, but getting to big for her tank. So I put it back in it's original tank. Not by the other two. Within days it moved right back to the other nems. (HUM) Stayed for month again, then one night watching TV I hear that toilet surge again. grrrr I get up and look with a blue LED and the Nem is gone again. ( go figure) It took the nem about another week to get in the sump. It was the the exact same spot I found it last time, shriveled and ghost white but the foot was still holding. (crazy) This time I took it out but it was way to big for the 32 Biocube, so I put it in my 150 eel tank. I let it heal again then started feeding and it split again and again. Now I have 3 in my eel tank. All stay put for years. Then about 3 week age one of them let it's foot go. I don't know if it was the first one I put in the tank or not. I reached in and grabbed it. It wasn't looking good so I moved it bact to the 210 gallon again. This time I put it next to the other 2 original ones. It stayed for 2 days then moved to the bottom corner by the overflow. (You got to be kidding me, here we go again) The family and I head to Florida for vaca a few weeks ago the day after Christmas. I told my wife I was worried the nems gonna block the pipes again, but we went anyways. Well we came home and........ Yep one week later that same RBTA is in the exact same spot it was the first 2 times. This time I said F-it and it's still their.
Do nems actually have the capabilities to know where they are? and if so how? after being in multiple tanks? Just crazy to me.
Do nems actually have the capabilities to know where they are? and if so how? after being in multiple tanks? Just crazy to me.
