I've had blobs before. They show no sign of damage prior to becoming blobs but I think they get sick and die. I see folks talk about other anemones being prone to infections and dying off so I wouldn't be surprised if that happened to RFAs as well. All speculation though.
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I've had blobs before. They show no sign of damage prior to becoming blobs but I think they get sick and die. I see folks talk about other anemones being prone to infections and dying off so I wouldn't be surprised if that happened to RFAs as well. All speculation though.
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Thank you for the follow up. I REALLY appreciate it!
That falls pretty much in line with my personal experience of between 30 and 35 days. There were a couple posters on here that said 10 and 14 days. And there is no science that I can find anywhere that offers up and time frame. So I wanted to test it for myself. Your data falls in line quite well with mine!
Update because someone reminded me about this..... Never found any babies from this batch. The RFAs in that area of the tank all spazzed and retracted around the time they should have been showing up. They're all back to normal now. I witnessed no fish harassment at the time, but I'm wondering if my filefish found the babies and was nipping around in there. The rockwork there has some very deep cracks and crevasses so maybe someone survived and is hiding out. Or maybe it was just an unsuccessful spawn.
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Thanks for the update. I hate to say it, but even a bad result is useful information.
And your post is timely to me. I shut down my 16g RFA breeding tank. I moved all 30+ RFA to a just restructured rockscape in my 90g DT. That all happened just a few weeks ago. Last night one of my bigger RFA spawned. So now I'll be on watch around the second week of January to see if I get any babies.
Maybe 2021 will prove to be a better year after all?!?!?!
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Hammer was nuking an RFA. Took a closer look and saw babies! Looks to be only about 4 or 5 though.
You have a hammer coral that is giving a RFA a hard time?
I just had a maxi-mini in my frag tank move over on 2 branching leathers I had cut off a few days before. The nem raised havoc with the leathers. I'm not sure they are going to make it.
Hi Ron whats a maxi mini?
I definetely need to catch back up here for sure.
How are you getting them to breed?
Do they spawn and spit out babies,eggs? Do you need 2 to be present?
Very cool
Circle it please that big one dead center looks like a scoly or am I totally not even on right track?Minimaxi in first photo, vs rfas in second (upper right of photo)
dead center is an acanthophyllia
circled the two rfa in the photo theres actually a 3rd below them almost out of the photo
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me too, not sure which (if either) is the correct way?
Either way how do you differentiate. I got a huge rfa i posted in this thread awhile back.
Whats a mini and maxi? Lol
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