Rock Anemone babies!

[Joshua Hurst]

hello! I love rock anemones and want to set up a nano tank to breed! currently thinking about a 12 gal 1' 1' 1' tank. Is it to small? and is there anything I could put in the tank to help turn em on hahaha

 

[Jeff.:P:.]

Some Barry White?

 

[AcroNem]

Wham! Careless whisper (;

 

[AcroNem]

Honestly though I think it would be fine as long as you keep it stable as you need to feed often.

 

[Bbaz123456]

Peppermint and cleaner shrimp will devour the babies. I had about 100 babies mixed with aiptasia and threw some peps in there to clean up the aips. Still have the aips but no flowers
I also put in a few with a cleaner and watched him eat them up in a few minutes. I even think my mimic tang likes them but haven't confirmed that yet.

 

[AcroNem]

Yeah I wouldn't put any shrimp or larger fish in here or any system where you're raising young (of any kind) sorry to hear about that!

 

[AcroNem]

UPDATE: day 6

Total in glass and in container with adults: 54 can be seen from above.

Growth is slow as expected, but tentacles are getting longer and feeding response is great. There's two (that I can see) larger ones about twice the size of the others that are darker, so color is starting to develop. That pigment was within the last day or so. Also, the young seem to be burying their foot and rest of their body more and more every day. Which makes sense, it just makes it quite hard to count.

 

[bruleyii]

This is going to be fun when they start coloring up.

 

[AcroNem]

This is going to be fun when they start coloring up.

Yes it will. Reading more about what was already said coloration is totally random so it should be cool to see these colors versus coming generations. So far what's coming in is just a darker Brown/green color, which is also expected considering the true color of zooxanthellae is brown or green.

 

[AcroNem]

UPDATE: Day 9
Total in glass and container with adults: sixty something
Babies are still growing consistently, my counts are way off I'm seeing a lot more today now that tentacles are visible and extension is full. Here's a crappy top down of the ones In the glass, almost time to move them to something bigger.

From the side

And the adults because their colors are coming in nicely, this is under a halide by the way so it's real color.

Anyway not much of an update, but that's today's. Enjoy!

 

[domination2580]

UPDATE: Day 9
Total in glass and container with adults: sixty something
Babies are still growing consistently, my counts are way off I'm seeing a lot more today now that tentacles are visible and extension is full. Here's a crappy top down of the ones In the glass, almost time to move them to something bigger.

From the side

And the adults because their colors are coming in nicely, this is under a halide by the way so it's real color.

Anyway not much of an update, but that's today's. Enjoy!

When the time comes give me a shout is be interested in one or 2

 

[AcroNem]

UPDATE: day 12

I'm calling today "The Exodus"

As I went to count the offspring and snap a pic or two I noticed there weren't as many in the glass. I was saying a couple days ago that they were getting big enough I should move them to a bigger growout tray. Turns out sometime last night they made that decision all on their own, and all at once. They're climbing up the sides, slipping through the mesh (thought they were too big at birth to do that so I'm impressed) and finding new spots around the prop system. This system uses a canister for chemical filtration (yeah yeah I know. Yet it works well, I've been at this a long time, Sue me) so I've covered the intake with much finer mesh netting that I'll have to clean every day but they won't get sucked in. Only obstacle is the Gyre, which shouldn't hurt them. I'm finding many already settled on random surfaces but if they're happy I don't really care. I could move them myself, but they don't have many threats in here so I'll let them do their thing. Pictures below, the lights were off so I used a flash light sorry for the boring colors.

Their growth rate has leveled out, fairly consistent now.

Lots of climbers, you can see some tentacles coming through the net.

More making it out on their own.

One on a Zoanthid frag

Several on the ceramic block, with big copepods for size reference.

Big fella also on the block, with another behind it.

I'll see where they end up or if I lose a lot of them in this process we'll see. I moved the glass closer to the halide to see if the remaining 40 or so stay put with more light, they've been further away since they first opened because I didn't want to fry them.

To end this long update, I'll get a new count tomorrow to check how many there are now. Thanks for tagging along!

 

[AcroNem]

Looks like most of the young that hadn't left are still in after last night. Which is great, the less I have to worry about getting into trouble the better. Could be the higher flow in this new spot keeping them in, or they like it better. Either way everyone is happy, counting is going to be awful now.

 

[Trixter227]

Loveing the journey keep up on the updates!!!

 

[AcroNem]

Happy sort of weekend everyone!

Not an official update but just things I noticed before heading to work. That big ceramic block (marinepure) seems to be the perfect spot for these little guys to settle out being so porous. Sure it's pretty much the only spot because this prop system is bare bottom, but they're all over it with their foot wedged into the little pockets. Just by glancing it looks like half of them have crawled up and through the net all on their own and landed on the block.

Getting hard to count but the latest is 53, scattered across the system. I'll see if I can get pics later.

 

[JaimeAdams]

following

 

[bruleyii]

Update?

 

[AcroNem]

Thank you for the reminder, I haven't actually updated yet. Sooooo...

UPDATE: day 20
Count as of this morning: 61 total
Apparently some of them are retracted some mornings as I found a lot more at 5:30 this morning as compared to my last count.

The Exodus is still in motion, a lot of the young are just kind of hanging out on the mesh out of the "nursery" about 30 or so between those in and on the outside.
Quite a few are spread throughout the entire system, it's better to show that instead of tell. So here's pics. I have to take them with a flashlight because I leave for work long before the Halides kick on.

Lots on the net

This rock seems to be a favorite spot too

More on top of the rock

Top down of the 6 or so on the rock

One just sitting on the rack

A couple on a Zoanthid frag

As always there's like 10 in and around the ceramic block

More on the block.

Two on the Gyre. Apparently they don't get shredded by it.

Lastly, the "nursery". I think I'll just take the net off after work and let them do what they please.

Feeding is still as it has been. I've been adding a lot more frags to this system so the phytoplankton has been upped. I still target feed the one's in the glass but broadcast feed more to get food to the others that have settled throughout the system. I rotate through a couple mixtures.

Always about a tablespoon of phytoplankton(either reef nutrition or brine shrimp direct paste, which I use less of because it's super concentrated) and that is either mixed with oyster eggs, rotifers(half a frozen cube) or brine shrimp nauplii (half a cube). And I rotate that every day or every other day.

Thanks for following along. Hopefully we'll get some color out of these guys soon!

-Justin

 

[Reef Nutrition]

Always about a tablespoon of phytoplankton(either reef nutrition or brine shrimp direct paste, which I use less of because it's super concentrated)

Which Brine Shrimp Direct phytoplankton product are you using? They actually use our Instant Algae concentrates in their blends.

Chad

 

[AcroNem]

I use their reef blend, I tend to trade off between the two bottles. Usually whichever is closest in the fridge (;