Nemtasia Party at Reef Wholesale

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I must admit, this is not the first time I have gone a bit crazy with nems....

About 2 months ago I set off to Vietnam for a couple weeks and hand picked a huge and very nice selection of Maxi Mini carpet Anemone.

Once the anemone were back in Canada we let them settle down a bit in our coral beds, dosed iodine at slightly higher levels than usual, put on some silky smooth jazz, turned down the lights and things got a bit crazy :P

We had a major mini maxi anemone spawning for a full 2 day period in mid march!

These pictures were taken at night with only shop lighting and the flash from the camera so the nem colors do not look the best but you can see the eggs in the various baskets.








In the first few hours some of the eggs appeared a light bluw and some were a dark blue.





And by the time we reached the 24 hour mark all of the eggs had turned a dard blue color.



You can see in the picture below that at the 24 hour mark you could start to see some pretty interesting things starting to happen with the few of the eggs




Unfortunately though with our expansion of our warehouse in the GTA, we just do not have the additional time to dedicate to project for captive raising mini maxi anemone but we have spoken with several leading researchers across the US and when this happens again (which apparently it will if we continue to keep the perfect parameters for the mini carpets) then hopefully at that time we can properly undertake a captive breeding program for maxi mini carpets.