What is it?

Giang · Sep 20, 2020

What on earth is this? It appears in my tank this morning. At first I thought it was a tentacle come off the rbta anemone, but still has colour and it moves. Looks like it has a polyp and base. Do you think it could be the baby anemone ? Has anyone experienced this ?

fishguy242 · Sep 20, 2020

hi, cannot see video,but beautiful colors

KJ · Sep 20, 2020

Giang said:
What on earth is this? It appears in my tank this morning. At first I thought it was a tentacle come off the rbta anemone, but still has colour and it moves. Looks like it has a polyp and base. Do you think it could be the baby anemone ? Has anyone experienced this ?

look like RBTA

4TheLoveOfReefs85 · Sep 20, 2020

What happened is your RBTA anemone splits when it feels it is in danger. ie: bad water conditions or more likely not enough food. It splits when signs are bad as a defense because two smaller ones have a better chance of surviving than one bigger one. This does not, however, occur often but this is known to happen. Do not worry it is fine, you have yourself a baby RBTA now! Congratulations on seeing your first in-tank RBTA split! I am quite jealous!
One Question, did something change in your tank? Water parameters, a new addition of another anemone? Just curious due to the reasons why they split is all.
Can't wait to hear back.

Giang · Sep 20, 2020

fishguy242 said:
hi, cannot see video,but beautiful colors

Thanks. I uploaded the video on YouTube

Giang · Sep 20, 2020

4TheLoveOfReefs85 said:
What happened is your RBTA anemone splits when it feels it is in danger. ie: bad water conditions or more likely not enough food. It splits when signs are bad as a defense because two smaller ones have a better chance of surviving than one bigger one. This does not, however, occur often but this is known to happen. Do not worry it is fine, you have yourself a baby RBTA now! Congratulations on seeing your first in-tank RBTA split! I am quite jealous!
One Question, did something change in your tank? Water parameters, a new addition of another anemone? Just curious due to the reasons why they split is all.
Can't wait to hear back.

I do the water changes every week. Currently we have two different type of bubble tips anemoneS in the tank. The blue bubble tip anemone did a split about two months ago ( attached pics). I have this anemone about 1 years and 4 months. The second one is RBTA but it didn’t show any sign of splitting like the other one does . Both of them behave very well and stay in the same spot since the time I get it.