Rose anenome splitting

A year for a carpet is a very short time. Some can last a year in terrible conditions,
such as my ritteri. Usually I judge the success of a carpet after it has been in a system
for 3 years

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"TW" wrote in message
.. .
: My tank is more than 8 or 9 years old. It is pretty rock solid as far as
: stability goes. I have a good skimmer and a good reactor going I
: barely touch it other than feeding. I don't think "stress" is a viable
: answer. To me it seems more likely to be happy normal reproduction.
: The anenome is always fully inflated and visually it looks pretty happy
: where it is. The tenticles are sometimes straight and sometimes extra
: inflated with a ball shape at the ends.
: The reason for my post was I was so surprised that it split twice in
: such a short span of time. I have had it in my tank for close to a year
: so far and all of a sudden wham!
:
: Todd
:

Boomer wrote:
A year for a carpet is a very short time. Some can last a year in terrible conditions,
such as my ritteri. Usually I judge the success of a carpet after it has been in a system
for 3 years

Granted a year is a short time in a system. I have a pink tip and a
purple carpet that I have had since I first set up my system. 8-9 years
ago. The carpet has been host to a pair of perculas for the past 4
years. I often wonder how long they will last. They seem to just keep
on ticking year after year. Many corals have come and gone over the
years but those two are original and seem happy. I feed them directly
about once once a month or so otherwise they just feed out of the water
column.

Todd

Boomer wrote:
Another
myth, anemone fish do not feed anemones.

My maroon clownfish constantly brings food to my rose anemones. Maybe
he's not intentionally feeding them, but that's the overall effect. ;-)

"Boomer" wrote in message ...
Corals , and mushrooms are not anemones. Colonial anemones are a another issue. You can
try to argue any rime or reason you want an aquarium is a stressful environment for most
of the large anemones particular the carpets, of which a Rose is. It is my fault to have
not be more clear and I should have not said anemones but carpet anemones, which are
almost all sexual. As Sanberg pointed out water chemistry and feeding, to include light
cycling, light type, high nutrient levels, all much different than on a coral reef. These
are always changing in a reef tank, which is a stress but where BTA's seem to better than
most.

I was sure we are talking about the rose variation of a BTA.

Just like those with the mind set that anemone fish feed anemones.
To often people like to input anthropomorphic thoughts into animal behavior.

What clownfish are doing when they bring food to the anemone ?
It is not feeding, how do you interprete this behaviour then ?
I saw it many, many times in my reef tank with pair of maroon clowns and a large BTA.

"Captain Feedback" wrote in message oups.com...
Another myth, anemone fish do not feed anemones.

My maroon clownfish constantly brings food to my rose anemones.
Maybe he's not intentionally feeding them, but that's the overall effect. ;-)

Same he maroon pair and a large BTA.

"Boomer" wrote on Sun, 2 Apr 2006 :
an aquarium is a stressful environment for most of the large anemones
particular the carpets, of which a Rose is. It is my fault to have not be
more clear and I should have not said anemones but carpet anemones, which
are almost all sexual.

The rose anemone most people mean is a red color morph of a bubble-tip anemone,
aka Entacmaea quadricolor. That is not a carpet anemone, i.e. one of the ones
that is a large flat dinner plate in shape with short stubbly tentacles, and
usually buries its foot in sand (instead of adhering to rock). For example,
Stichodactyla sp., e.g. S. gigantea or S. haddoni.

Some info form the Breeder's Registry
"4. Species Specific Information
Entacmaea quadricolor.

Yeah, that's a rose anemone ... but not a carpet.

-- Don
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I guess my understanding of these organisims is a bit naive. I assume
that when it is fully inflated and stationary that it is happy. This
may not be the case as you have explained. However, if that is the case
I think we can say the same thing for every SW aquarium animal. I'm
sure the would all be happier in the ocean but that would not make this
hobby viable would it? Thanks for the info. I appreciate it and your
help from the past. I believe it was your website that gave me alot of
info when I first got into this hobby.

Cheers
Todd

"TW" wrote in message ...
I guess my understanding of these organisims is a bit naive. I assume
that when it is fully inflated and stationary that it is happy. This
may not be the case as you have explained. However, if that is the case
I think we can say the same thing for every SW aquarium animal. I'm
sure the would all be happier in the ocean but that would not make this
hobby viable would it? Thanks for the info. I appreciate it and your
help from the past. I believe it was your website that gave me alot of
info when I first got into this hobby.

Could you sort things up with the type of your anemone, please?
Were you talking about a carpet type anemone, like Boomer
interpreted, or were you talking about rose variation of BTA ?

Pszemol wrote:

"TW" wrote in message
...

I guess my understanding of these organisims is a bit naive. I assume
that when it is fully inflated and stationary that it is happy. This
may not be the case as you have explained. However, if that is the
case I think we can say the same thing for every SW aquarium animal.
I'm sure the would all be happier in the ocean but that would not make
this hobby viable would it? Thanks for the info. I appreciate it and
your help from the past. I believe it was your website that gave me
alot of info when I first got into this hobby.


Could you sort things up with the type of your anemone, please?
Were you talking about a carpet type anemone, like Boomer
interpreted, or were you talking about rose variation of BTA ?
I was told it was a rose anenome. It is salmon pink on the tenticles,
The tips are purplish , the mouth is lime green. On some days the
tenticles expand to have bulbus ends like a ball.

like this: http://www.berlinmethod.com/images/photos/anenome.jpg
or this: http://www.oc-creative.com/7gal/475rose1.jpg

Both images show what I have.

Todd

Sorry but Roses are carpets, there are long tentacle carpets and short tentacle carpets.
The longs include, Entacmeae and Heteractis for example

I'm quite familiar that a rose is color variant of a Entacmaea quadricolor
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"Don Geddis" wrote in message ...
: "Boomer" wrote on Sun, 2 Apr 2006 :
: an aquarium is a stressful environment for most of the large anemones
: particular the carpets, of which a Rose is. It is my fault to have not be
: more clear and I should have not said anemones but carpet anemones, which
: are almost all sexual.
:
: The rose anemone most people mean is a red color morph of a bubble-tip anemone,
: aka Entacmaea quadricolor. That is not a carpet anemone, i.e. one of the ones
: that is a large flat dinner plate in shape with short stubbly tentacles, and
: usually buries its foot in sand (instead of adhering to rock). For example,
: Stichodactyla sp., e.g. S. gigantea or S. haddoni.
:
: Some info form the Breeder's Registry
: "4. Species Specific Information
: Entacmaea quadricolor.
:
: Yeah, that's a rose anemone ... but not a carpet.
:
: -- Don
: __________________________________________________ _____________________________
: Don Geddis http://reef.geddis.org/
: Blame: The secret to success is knowing who to blame for your failures.
: -- Despair.com