Carpet anemone question     6/22/19 Hi Bob, <Hey Frank> I hope all is well. I have a question for you regarding a carpet anemone I just received. To my knowledge, carpets reproduce through shooting eggs and sperm through their mouths <Yes; sexually... they do asexually divide, leave bits behind as well> (my rock anemones did this which I did record the action on video and I actually had little rock anemones show up months later). <Neat!> This one I received had a little carpet growing on the underside of its column. Did you ever see something like this and do you have any knowledge of this as another way of reproducing like budding? Thank you as always! <Have seen and wondered re... Is this "just" a bit of the capitulum (top) being extruded from the pedicle/stalk of this animal? Or... yet another means/example of asexual... fragging; if you will? Bob Fenner> Re: Carpet anemone question     6/22/19 That can be interesting if does reproduce asexually as well. I didn't check for a small mouth. However, I will investigate and see. Thank you Frank <Please keep me/us "in the loop" Frank. BobF>

Mini Carpet Anemone      7/21/14
Dear Sirs:
Earlier today I did a routine partial water change in my 100 gallon.
<Mmm; the water was pre-mixed, stored ahead of time? We've had a spate of "water change" queries, both fresh and marine...>
Everything was as it always is after a water change and acrylic scraping, all shiny, clear, and pretty. So this evening I notice that the water had become cloudy and there were many, many tiny white spots floating everywhere. The spots did not appear to be swimming like "bugs" might and the royal gramma was not chasing them like he would if they were "bugs".
They have lessened now and the water is less cloudy, but while all this is going on I notice something going on with the two mini carpet anemones that share a rock up high in the aquarium. In the more than a year that I have had these two, one green and one red, I have not seen them do this: Green was secreting long white streams of stuff. I am guessing it's not poop since the royal gramma ate one of the larger streams that floated by him.
Green seems to be finished with his business. Now, at the same time, Red is secreting tiny brown irregularly shaped pellets of something, I am guessing poop. No one is eating what he's secreting. They are coming from a tiny opening in his center. Oh my gosh, I just went to take another look to see if Red was still pooping, and I'll be darned, he shot out a huge amount of these pellets, like a volcano erupting!! Those white spots that are everywhere are coming from Red! This has been going on for a good hour or more. What do you think is going on and why haven't I seen this before?
<Sounds a great deal like reproduction to me>
Thank you,
Connie
P.S. he just did it again!
<Do keep your eyes on all... I'd mix up and keep ready as many gallons of new water as you can; as well as a back up of chemical filter material (GAC). Bob Fenner>
RE: Mini Carpet Anemone      7/21/14
Wow, that's kind of cool. So you think like male (Green) and female (Red), anemone version of eggs and sperm?
<Possibly; yes>
I will do as you suggest, change the filter media (I use Chemi Pure Elite and bags of GAC) tomorrow, and change some water the next day, using the water I mixed up this morning.
<Good>
By the way, I think I was wrong when I said no one was eating Red's "poop".
I noticed one of the pajama cardinals hanging close as though waiting for the next batch to be expelled and the cardinals appeared to be eating too, in their corner of the tank.
Might I find baby anemones in the near future?
<Mmm; not from sexual union in aquarium conditions; no>
Thank you Mr. Fenner,
Connie
<Certainly welcome. BobF>

Carpet Anemone reproduction: Not much to go on with this one...... 6/29/2010
green carpet anemone can they split
<Yes, usually as a result of favorable or unfavorable conditions.
Read here: http://www.wetwebmedia.com/carpetanemones.htm >
<MikeV>