Flower Anemone Spawning
In September of last year,Dynasty Marinesent me a box of flower anemones(Epicystis crucifer)建立加勒比生物管水族馆。尽管水族馆经历了一些不断增长的痛苦，目前还不是很上镜，但在周末，我们很幸运地抓住了其中一个海葵喷出数百个鸡蛋。
我们使用该坦克的目标是尝试产卵的鲜花海葵，我们花了很多时间在我们的水箱中观察这些海葵。目前，我们正在种植二十根龟草，一群十花海葵，两只ricordea蘑菇，少数大黄蜂蜗牛和一个小的圈养育成的霓虹灯戈比。
还有两个圈养的育种Heliofungia（长触手板珊瑚）一个异虫（步行Dendro）和五颜六色的Wellsophyllia脑珊瑚。这些珊瑚不是来自加勒比海的，只有在我的水族馆中固定在我的水族馆里，直到另一张珊瑚桌为他们准备。
水族馆以10加仑的经典黑色框架水族馆开始，底部覆盖了底部。该水族馆由Ecotech MP10和AI Prime HD提供动力，并且用于过滤，我使用了带有空石的玻璃蛋白撇渣器。还有一个50瓦的加热器将储罐保持在75°F（24°C）左右。
After speaking with Julian Sprung, who also collected our turtle grass, he recommended switching the oolitic sand for a nutrient rich refugite sand which is ideal for growing seagrass. Following his advice, we switched over our aquarium to a smaller 8 gallon high clarityUltum Naturetank with dark refugite sand. We caught our flower anemone releasing eggs, three days after this switch.
Anemone With Eggs
当坦克中的灯光熄灭时，我们注意到其中一朵花海葵被充气并大小增加了两倍。大型充气磁盘在流动中弹跳，伸长的脚仍然附着在岩石上。通常是粉红色的海葵是一种半透明的颜色，看上去奇怪的海葵让我仔细观察。
When I turned on the lights I could see tiny eggs through it’s transparent body traveling from the rim of the anemone towards the mouth. Within one minute I noticed egg releasing from the center of the anemone and quickly shot this timelaps video.
From what we’ve read, flower anemones are either male or female and the males release sperm which is absorbed by the female who broods baby anemones inside her body. We assume these eggs should stay inside the anemone to be fertilized, and tiny baby anemones should make their way out.
We caught our flower anemone releasing eggs, three days after switching over the tank and wonder if this was a stress response to a complete tank switch. The eggs were not mobile in the water which leads us to believe there were unfertilized and perhaps they were expelled prematurely due to stress.
None of the other anemones in the tank had any spawning response and this is the first spawning event we have witnessed in our tank. We will keep you posted with our flower anemone and Caribbean biotope aquarium.
