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socalaly
01-23-2009, 08:35 PM
so i was purchasing a rbta. The day I was suppose to pick it up it split in two. Looked really healthy so I still took it.. Yesterday it was looking good and so was it tonight...then a few mins ago I look back and my tank looks milky and one of the rbta has smoke coming out of its bottom!!!!!!! Ive read that its sending out sperm?? wth?? anyone have this happen????

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m70/socalaly/smoke-1.jpg

what do I do next... waiting fot it to get all the sperm out and do a WC...running carbon and wet skimmer... will i have baby rbtas running around/??????

Inkedforlife
01-23-2009, 08:42 PM
I had this happen with my green LTA. It did it like once every other month. Tank went cloudy. Didnt take to long to clear up. I didnt do water changes. no side effects in my tank.

nahtanoj
01-23-2009, 08:54 PM
yay for anemone sex! good coral food, but watch your pumps, it can clog them up.

socalaly
01-23-2009, 08:57 PM
so this isn't bad? I just did a 10% wc...

Technoviking
01-23-2009, 09:06 PM
That's odd. I would think it would come from it's mouth...

Well you may want to do a couple more water changes just because of the extra stuff that's now in your water. And no you won't have little BTAs unless your other was ejecting eggs. Both your BTAs came from the same mother so I doubt that would happen.

socalaly
01-23-2009, 09:08 PM
well let me clear this up... it split before i got it...looked liek two halfs...so tech his mouth is on the side while its healing up.... so thats why maybe foot...it was on the side of nem... I looked up spawning nems and sure enough looks exactly the same.

socalaly
01-24-2009, 08:54 AM
Well update this morning...its open full and bright and corals look happy.. I guess they got some good food last night? :D

today... happy and healthy

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m70/socalaly/DSC02544.jpg

socalaly
01-24-2009, 08:04 PM
Okay th is just crazy... the second rbta is now smoking... is it sending out eggs now? Will i have baby nems crusin all around? whatever it is my fish are so excited... they are hovering over it and i assuming eating the eggs?


so apparently my tank will look like this http://www.reefland.com/gallery/files/2/5/5/6/IMG_4213.JPG :crazy: :lol: