bta allelopathy

a4twenty · #1 07-07-2008, 07:06 PM

i agree, they are the same species and are unaffected by the others nematocysts as they are to their own. they are essentially a duplicate of each other and get along just fine, two or three of mine stay in very close proximity to each other with no fighting.

sharuq1 · #2 07-07-2008, 08:03 PM

Good to know, just wanted to be able to rule it out for sure. I just had noticed one of my anemones looked off today and I suspected allelopathy but wanted to make sure the sister nem (which is only a couple inches from this one) was not the cause. I did a WC, normal Ca/alk dosing, added a capful of Kent's iodine and I added a new bag of carbon.

Fairly shortly thereafter the nem is already looking better. The sister nem has looked perfectly fine the whole time. I suspect it may have been stung last night by a frogspawn. Either that or it is mad at me for not properly defrosting the shrimp I gave each of them yesterday and one is more picky than the other.

a4twenty · #3 07-07-2008, 08:36 PM

could have also just been expelling waste from last nights dinner, glad she's looking better.

Ian · #4 07-08-2008, 03:46 AM

SInce your dealing with clones any chemical that would be toxic to one would also be toxic to the other so this could not be an issue

sharuq1 · #5 07-08-2008, 06:21 PM

Guess that points it even more to the frogspawn. Although it is possible some critter could have damaged it...probably not terribly likely (no anemone eaters in my tank that I know of, no peppermint shrimps, etc.)