Ron Reefman's Rock Flower experience

tankstudy · Oct 27, 2020

cpschult said:
@Ron Reefman have you ever had a rfa melt?? I think I just lost the one that just had babies. Like I said it was looking kind of weird.. I now have some weird blobs in tank

I've had blobs before. They show no sign of damage prior to becoming blobs but I think they get sick and die. I see folks talk about other anemones being prone to infections and dying off so I wouldn't be surprised if that happened to RFAs as well. All speculation though.

ApoIsland · Nov 15, 2020

Ron Reefman said:
ApoIsland, I know you are knowledgeable about this stuff. And I'd really appreciate hearing back from you when babies are born. Good luck.

I just found my first baby from the spawn on Oct 3 so that’s about 41 days. Will look for more tonight.

Ron Reefman · Nov 15, 2020

ApoIsland said:
I just found my first baby from the spawn on Oct 3 so that’s about 41 days. Will look for more tonight.

Thank you for the follow up. I REALLY appreciate it!

That falls pretty much in line with my personal experience of between 30 and 35 days. There were a couple posters on here that said 10 and 14 days. And there is no science that I can find anywhere that offers up and time frame. So I wanted to test it for myself. Your data falls in line quite well with mine!

rcmike · Nov 17, 2020

Thought you guys might like this picture. One of my cleaner shrimp molted and this RFA decided a leg might be appetizing.

danieyella · Dec 13, 2020

Update because someone reminded me about this..... Never found any babies from this batch. The RFAs in that area of the tank all spazzed and retracted around the time they should have been showing up. They're all back to normal now. I witnessed no fish harassment at the time, but I'm wondering if my filefish found the babies and was nipping around in there. The rockwork there has some very deep cracks and crevasses so maybe someone survived and is hiding out. Or maybe it was just an unsuccessful spawn.

Ron Reefman · Dec 14, 2020

danieyella said:
Update because someone reminded me about this..... Never found any babies from this batch. The RFAs in that area of the tank all spazzed and retracted around the time they should have been showing up. They're all back to normal now. I witnessed no fish harassment at the time, but I'm wondering if my filefish found the babies and was nipping around in there. The rockwork there has some very deep cracks and crevasses so maybe someone survived and is hiding out. Or maybe it was just an unsuccessful spawn.

Thanks for the update. I hate to say it, but even a bad result is useful information.

And your post is timely to me. I shut down my 16g RFA breeding tank. I moved all 30+ RFA to a just restructured rockscape in my 90g DT. That all happened just a few weeks ago. Last night one of my bigger RFA spawned. So now I'll be on watch around the second week of January to see if I get any babies.

Maybe 2021 will prove to be a better year after all?!?!?!

;Wideyed

Cell · Dec 14, 2020

Hammer was nuking an RFA. Took a closer look and saw babies! Looks to be only about 4 or 5 though.

Ron Reefman · Dec 14, 2020

Cell said:
Hammer was nuking an RFA. Took a closer look and saw babies! Looks to be only about 4 or 5 though.

You have a hammer coral that is giving a RFA a hard time?

I just had a maxi-mini in my frag tank move over on 2 branching leathers I had cut off a few days before. The nem raised havoc with the leathers. I'm not sure they are going to make it.

Cell · Dec 14, 2020

Yeah, tbh I had no idea the hammer would do such a thing. It's been sending out a pretty long sweeper though. I've since readjusted it away from the rfa.

Cell · Dec 14, 2020

Aggressive little hammer

LRT · Dec 14, 2020

Ron Reefman said:
You have a hammer coral that is giving a RFA a hard time?

I just had a maxi-mini in my frag tank move over on 2 branching leathers I had cut off a few days before. The nem raised havoc with the leathers. I'm not sure they are going to make it.

Hi Ron whats a maxi mini?
I definetely need to catch back up here for sure.
How are you getting them to breed?
Do they spawn and spit out babies,eggs? Do you need 2 to be present?
Very cool

Cell · Dec 14, 2020

Mini maxi = Stichodactyla tapetumi, mini carpet nem. Or RPG dominance.

danieyella · Dec 14, 2020

LRT said:
Hi Ron whats a maxi mini?

Minimaxi in first photo, vs rfas in second (upper right of photo)

LRT · Dec 14, 2020

danieyella said:
Minimaxi in first photo, vs rfas in second (upper right of photo)

Circle it please that big one dead center looks like a scoly or am I totally not even on right track?

danieyella · Dec 14, 2020

LRT said:
Circle it please that big one dead center looks like a scoly or am I totally not even on right track?

dead center is an acanthophyllia

circled the two rfa in the photo theres actually a 3rd below them almost out of the photo

Cell · Dec 14, 2020

AquaSD always carries a ton of mini maxi's.

Super Maxi Mini Carpet Anemone

aquasd.com

Cell · Dec 14, 2020

Maxi mini? I see it both ways.

rcmike · Dec 14, 2020

Cell said:
AquaSD always carries a ton of mini maxi's.

Super Maxi Mini Carpet Anemone

aquasd.com

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