Hi, so I have a question. I have a LTA and about two weeks ago my daughter and her friend messed with my reef tank and some how dropped one of my hammer corals and I found my LTA on top of the hammer. So the hammer is totally messed up and some of the tentacles(a few pieces) came off but the LTA is doing great and thriving. My question is the pieces are just around the bottom of the tank and they have vibrant color..I was wondering will the tentaclesame eventually die or can those pieces produce a new anemone??
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Well they definitely won't turn into new anemone's. You have to have apart of the mouth for that to happen. I've heard of some people feeding vibrant NEM tentacles to sick/struggling NEMs to replace the zooxanthellae, but thats really it.
Yes Sir, to my knowledge they all do. This is how they reproduce.
ngvu1
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"asexual reproduction" : Don't need 2 to tango. Can do the job with only 1 member. make 2 from one starting member. 
ngvu1
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Your nem will spit in the middle giving you 2 nems in the end.
However there is no warranty that will happen.
I was able to keep my nem not splitting for over 3 years
However there is no warranty that will happen.
I was able to keep my nem not splitting for over 3 years
bobman
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Nems will go asexual when happy. If they get stressed or feel they have over grown there spot (again stressed) they will split. This gives them a better chance that at least 1 of them will survive.
KorD
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1)Budding is when the nem will lose a section of it's foot and you will see a baby nem start to form. (it will grow to it's maturity and will always be smaller then the one it budded from)
2)Splitting is done at the mouth and you get two nems looking exactly the same way (size will be the same)
3) asexual is when the nem spits out sperm to fertilize it's own eggs. It will take time but you will have a baby or two running around after a long wait
