Anenome split?? Not sure

[Coralgurl]

What does a split nem look like? I have a clear mass that looks like a mouth, but the slit that I thought may be a mouth keeps moving across the mass, i watched it for 10 mins and the Slit goes from one side to the other. There's no tentacles and this mass is separate from the nem but attached to a rock. I did a huge water change Friday night, then treated with chemiclean Saturday. Lights don't come on till this afternoon and my existing nem is all shriveled up.

I've got pics, will try to load.

Any thoughts?

[Coralgurl]

Well if this isn't one of the coolest things I've seen!! I'm in the process of loading pics to photobucket, come over to check on it again and now theres tentacles. When checking earlier, there was no color at all, now I can see color inside the mass. Once other photos are done loading, will take more pics.

These changes are all within minutes!

[Coralgurl]

Last pic is the original nem. First pics are the mass, photobucket crashed during upload so can't show where the tentacles are coming out, but they are on the bottom.

[fishoholic]

Not sure if this is the case but I have had my nem trick me before. My nem has been divided between two rocks (totally looking like it had split) only to move up to one rock when the lights came on showing that it was just spread far apart between the rocks and not actually split.

[Coralgurl]

There's 2 completely separate bases or feet for each and they are not at all attached. I've been wanting it to split so I'm happy!

[fishoholic]

Originally Posted by Coralgurl

There's 2 completely separate bases or feet for each and they are not at all attached. I've been wanting it to split so I'm happy!

That's great, mine tricked me by making it look like there was 2 separate feet, for a solid week. Had me fooled to the point that I offered my "split" to a friend. Thankfully she didn't want it, since 2 days later I discovered it never really split in the first place.

[Madreefer]

So what causes anemones to split? Does anyone have the real answer other than just a guess?

[fishoholic]

Originally Posted by Madreefer

So what causes anemones to split? Does anyone have the real answer other than just a guess?

This site has lots of anemone info http://www.chucksaddiction.com/anemone.html

This is what it says about splitting:

Propagating Anemone - While anecdotal, it may still be a valid observation that if you want your anemone to split or reproduce, frequent water changes along with target feeding the anemone every 3 to 4 days seems to induce the anemone to split (clone). This makes sense to me since for any animal to have the energy to reproduce, it must have the protein available. I also believe that the better water quality and the abundant food cues the anemone that it is in a very suitable environment capable of supporting more anemone like itself, a kind of trigger if you will.

[Madreefer]

Thanks Laurie. I guess i'll continue doing the things I do as I dont want mine to split.

[fishoholic]

Originally Posted by Madreefer

Thanks Laurie. I guess i'll continue doing the things I do as I dont want mine to split.

No prob, I figure I should make myself helpful every now and then