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Posted: November 22 2010 at 11:15am |
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I am not sure how often to feed my anemone. I have been feeding it krill about once or twice a week. Is that too much?
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Posted: November 22 2010 at 11:22am |
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Nope, not too much.
I don't spot feed my anemone at all. I figure it grabs stuff when I feed the fish.
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Posted: November 22 2010 at 11:35am |
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That seems about right to me.
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Posted: November 22 2010 at 12:10pm |
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i feed mine everything it can eat once a week
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Posted: November 22 2010 at 12:53pm |
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The more you feed, the faster they split...right?
Edited by Jeffs_little_ocean - November 22 2010 at 12:55pm
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Posted: November 22 2010 at 12:58pm |
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more food=bigger, doesn't necessarily mean they'll split though.
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Posted: November 22 2010 at 1:56pm |
 Jeffs_little_ocean wrote:
The more you feed, the faster they split...right? |
Nope. I did some research and it seems that no one really knows what will make an anemone split (besides taking a razor knife to it). I've heard over feeding, under feeding, changing flow, changing it's position, swapping lights, etc... will make them split.
That said, feeding them is great (apart from the added waist). I've had my RBTA for about 2.5 years now and it has made some astounding changes, but has never split.
Micah
Edited by Sculpin - November 22 2010 at 1:59pm
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Posted: November 22 2010 at 6:00pm |
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We feed out RBTA and GBTA twice a week with silversides/ Shrimp.Ours has split numerous times.
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Posted: November 22 2010 at 6:35pm |
This is so fun. It's so cool to have so many people talking about splitting anemones.
Just for fun, let's travel back in time to 1995. Bare bottom tanks had
become a cool way to do a reef and everyone was trying to make reverse
flow skimmers with an airstone. The coolest anemone was a Sebae that
died within 6 months. Condylactis anemones lived for a year if you were
lucky. How fun is this now! 
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Posted: November 26 2010 at 3:13pm |
I had one RBTA now I have 5, don't know why though. I had one split and I sent it over to another tank and it split again within the Hour.  Go figure.
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Posted: November 28 2010 at 10:57am |
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thats cool. how long had you had it when it split? was it pretty big?
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Posted: November 30 2010 at 4:09pm |
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I have her of people having the params off on their tank to make them split faster. They tend to reproduce faster that way the keep the species alive. Atleast that is what i have been told
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Posted: November 30 2010 at 5:41pm |
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on sunday night i feed my corals and fish and this sunday i decided to feed more to my green bubble tip more than usual,well to my surprice in the morning when i came to check you the yellow tang the anemone was looking different and afert a few hours i noticed i had two it had split that night so now i have two all the parameters are right where they have to be so im guessing that everything helps an anemone splits but food will do it faster
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