Partial Splitting BTA

[BTA Love]

Hello All. This is my first forum. I do a lot of research on things that puzzle me and usually find answers just by reading other questions posed by other members on the forums. But I have not found anyone that has encountered this. I have a BTA. I have had it for 2 yrs. Sold to me as a beige BTA but recently someone told me it is a Rose Bubble Tip. Either way, I love it to pieces. In January it started splitting, but did not finish for some reason. Just ended up with 2 feet. At the beginning of August it started splitting again and I thought "finally it is going to finish", but it did not. Now it has 3 feet. My question is has anyone had this happen? Is the BTA going to finish splitting into 3 separate nems one day? Thank you to everyone that has some insight to this subject.

 

[steve&mari]

Has the nem actually split other then what is in pics. Pic don't look like it's split just holding on stretching in spots. It normally only takes a day to split and you'll see the mouth splitting.

 

[BTA Love]

Here is another pic from January when it partially split the first time.

 

[BTA Love]

Some pics of the actual ripping that took place in January.

 

[Reefrookie220]

Anemones can split 6 ways at once. Just like tentacles come in by the 6.

 

[BTA Love]

Wow. That is neat. I just wish that it would stop doing partial splits and just get it done. Lol. In my research the longest time for a nem to split took a little longer than a week. This has been 7 months. It looks happy and healthy so I know it is doing what it wants.

 

[Amoo]

How many mouths does it have?

 

[BTA Love]

It has only 1 mouth so far.

 

[Amoo]

It has only 1 mouth so far.

Once the mouth start to split, then you're chances of having more go up, until then as others have said, it just looks like stretching. It's really hard to see exactly what you're trying to show us from the pictures, and you're around it everyday, so you know what it's "normal" is.

 

[Jcearl]

this same thing happened to me about a year ago. i had a RBTA and i was noticing it would start to split and never went through with it. it stayed with 2 "feet" for 3 months. finally i decided to say "screw it i will feed it and see what happens". so every 2-3 days i would take a couple cubes of spirulina brine shrimp and let them melt, grabbed the baster and shut down the powerheads and then covered the whole nem with food, it ate almost all of the food, the rest which went into the water and was eaten by the fish. after a few weeks i came home and there were 3 RBTA all of which were doing great, now i think i have between 13 and 15 RBTA all from that one little guy, they have since stopped splitting since i stopped feeding them.

 

[BTA Love]

Oh my goodness. I hope mine doesn't split that many times. Lol. I am currently trying the feeding method. Hoping it will finish splitting. I usually feed it every other week. But I am now feeding it every other day. Thank you for sharing your experience.

 

[Jcearl]

i doubt it will split that many times. after mine split i started feeding all the anemones that much for about 6 months. if your parameters are good and stable and you stop feeding them they wont split, they will just grow in size. you dont need to feed them they will just eat the leftover food from the fish.

 

[BTA Love]

Since I started feeding mine every other day I have notice that the tips are beginning to change color. They now have pretty purple dots on them. I hope they stay with that coloration.

 

[KRay1260]

What do you feed?

 

[Captain Quint]

this same thing happened to me about a year ago. i had a RBTA and i was noticing it would start to split and never went through with it. it stayed with 2 "feet" for 3 months. finally i decided to say "screw it i will feed it and see what happens". so every 2-3 days i would take a couple cubes of spirulina brine shrimp and let them melt, grabbed the baster and shut down the powerheads and then covered the whole nem with food, it ate almost all of the food, the rest which went into the water and was eaten by the fish. after a few weeks i came home and there were 3 RBTA all of which were doing great, now i think i have between 13 and 15 RBTA all from that one little guy, they have since stopped splitting since i stopped feeding them.

Ditto and my BTA is up to a total of 19 splits. Argh

 

[Captain Quint]

Since I started feeding mine every other day I have notice that the tips are beginning to change color. They now have pretty purple dots on them. I hope they stay with that coloration.

Thatis cool.

Yes, they can certainly morph in a color change.

Mine started as an RBTA and is presently tricolor.