Following along added 3 RFA this week.
Does anyone have a tuxedo urchin with their RFA? I have a 20g and would like to add one.
Does anyone have a tuxedo urchin with their RFA? I have a 20g and would like to add one.
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Following along added 3 RFA this week.
Does anyone have a tuxedo urchin with their RFA? I have a 20g and would like to add one.
I’ve always wanted an urchin lol a little purple one but too scared with these guys in the tankFollowing along added 3 RFA this week.
Does anyone have a tuxedo urchin with their RFA? I have a 20g and would like to add one.
Love the colors!
In total I have around 25 rock flowers. I had them in a 20 long where I saw them spawn once, and I got about 10 babies from it. Recently I set up a 2 gallon bowl and put all of them in there. Since then I’ve seen them spawn twice and I now have well over 100 babies from it. I believe they spawned from being stressed due to me forgetting to buy a
heater for the first week, and it’s winter so it got really cold. I have some cool videos of them spawning which I’ll link. I think the bowl worked out so well because the only filtration is the live rock and marine pure inside. So no eggs or sperm get filtered out. It all just sits and gets all nice and happy together.
Eggs floating around
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female anemone releasing eggs
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male anemone releasing sperm. notice how cloudy the water is. Usually the water is crystal
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Actinic video of the anemones
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Glad you like the bowl! So first I’ve noticed that mine have only spawned at night, usually late at night. I don’t feed mine very often because I figure it’s very easy to foul the water with me only having 2 gallons. I’ll usually feed every other week and I fill their mouth with lps pellets. Last week I decided to feed before my water change and right after my water change one of them spawned so I do believe feeding has something to do with it. I have also noticed parameter fluctuations causing spawning. I do around 95% water change weekly for nutrient control and the water I use is generally pretty cold. Maybe the stress from the cold water along with feeding before hand triggered spawning? Also when I first set up the bowl I forgot to buy a heater so at night I’d steal the heater from my 20g frag tank next to it but during the day it had no heater. Took about a week to get exact heater, and temp would fluctuate from 80 at night to maybe high 60s during the day. That being said I saw the nems spawn 2 times around that time. That’s where all the videos were from. As for size of the nems, I have also noticed that only my big ones spawn they’re all 3+ inches. The really pretty one that’s releasing the sperm I got from someone breaking down his tank. It’s at least 4 years old. And yes lol I’ll let you know when some are ready to adopt. Some are starting to get some size to them, maybe 4-5mm, so I’m hoping most of them will make it. If I have the same success I’ve been having this bowl will be a rock flower aquaculture machine.Those were awesome videos! I really like the bowl idea. Did you notice this occurring at a particular time of day? Also, it seems that there may be a connection between feeding and triggering spawning. What are you feeding your flowers, and how often?
Other people that have had successful spawning have also mentioned environmental changes like a water change triggering reproduction. And others have mentioned certain physical characteristics might matter (e.g. the size of the RFA) for which of their flowers seem to spawn. The ones in the video that were releasing seemed to be pretty good sized.
Let me know if some of those babies are up for adoption, I’d love to give some a home in my RFA dominated 30g