At long last I have a surviving offspring of sorts from my still unkown Aiptasiidae species that prior to now I've only had one large individual of in amongs my other pest Aiptasia (here's an old-ish pic of the nem since it was quite a while ago I last posted about it: http
/img.photobucket.com/albums/v281/kwippo/nem5.jpg ). The big one ran off into the mass of macro in my 12g a couple months ago, and I thought it had dissappeared, but when I hacked apart the macro mound to cart some off to the LFS, I happened accross not one, but two nearly equally-sized versions of my nem. I guess it must have just decided to split down the middle, since each is a little smaller than the original size.
I'm excited to finally have two individuals, but I'm kind of worried. One is a little bigger than the other and is acting normally. It's stationary and quite hungry, so basically there's no behavior change there. The other smaller one is not acting so good...it will catch and eat pieces of food drifting past, then spit it back out immediately and shrivel up looking sickly. It's also currently running off towards a dark corner. Could this be because it just split, or do I have something else to worry about? I had stuck both individuals on the tank wall so they would be safe during tank work. They were free-floating in the macro and unattached and I didn't want them to get caught on the powerhead. Was the placement on the tank wall a bad thing to do?
/img.photobucket.com/albums/v281/kwippo/nem5.jpg ). The big one ran off into the mass of macro in my 12g a couple months ago, and I thought it had dissappeared, but when I hacked apart the macro mound to cart some off to the LFS, I happened accross not one, but two nearly equally-sized versions of my nem. I guess it must have just decided to split down the middle, since each is a little smaller than the original size. I'm excited to finally have two individuals, but I'm kind of worried. One is a little bigger than the other and is acting normally. It's stationary and quite hungry, so basically there's no behavior change there. The other smaller one is not acting so good...it will catch and eat pieces of food drifting past, then spit it back out immediately and shrivel up looking sickly. It's also currently running off towards a dark corner. Could this be because it just split, or do I have something else to worry about? I had stuck both individuals on the tank wall so they would be safe during tank work. They were free-floating in the macro and unattached and I didn't want them to get caught on the powerhead. Was the placement on the tank wall a bad thing to do?
