Asexual Healing

[the curious]

So...I've been breaking down my 65 and setting up my 90 after work all week. The girlfriend is out of town on business...so I can leave buckets and pvc all over the place...makes things a bit easier. All my corals have been in a temporary tank that I have been watching closely.

I woke up this morning and managed to pull out the camera seconds before complete separation. this is one of my small daughter clones from my gbta...that just created its own daughter clone. Jeez...get a tank you guys.
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[curtismaximus]

Wow nice find! Nature is a crazy thing!

 

[jimmystephens]

Thats cool. i wish my rbta would split! Ive had it for a year now and nothing

 

[jef4y]

Thanks. Now I have a whole new version of Marvin Gaye running through my head. LOL

 

[the curious]

JimmyStephens;850016 wrote: Thats cool. i wish my rbta would split! Ive had it for a year now and nothing

Be careful what you wish for. I got my GBTA about 3 years ago and he has been moved into different or upgraded tanks a few times. Every time I pull him out of a tank he thinks he is gonna die, so to up his chances of survival...he goes on a splitting frenzy. I now have about 40 baby GBTAs. I am gonna have to set-up a separate rock structure in my new 90 for anemones, just to keep them away from everyone else.

I know we try to keep perfect parameters in our tanks, but nature is a harsh mistress. In a way, adding stress every so often is more of an "exact replication" of an ocean environment. In a perfect environment there is no dire need to reproduce, but throw a lil chaos in there...and maybe some Marvin Gaye ...and these organisms will know what to do.

Just to clarify, I'm not encouraging the purposeful addition of stress to the reef...just pointing out what made my anemones reproduce.

 

[saltbubbles]

Amazing!

 

[slickwill613]

You gonna sell any of those babys after they heal up?

 

[the curious]

I have thought about it...I just figured an anemone the size of my pinky fingernail wouldn't really be worth very much

 

[slickwill613]

Wow, didn't realize they were so small. Pretty cool.