ReefGrlGLH
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any one frag a carpet anemone successfully ??
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Fraging a Carpet Anemone
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I've seen people just slice through them including a friend of mine. He just grabbed a pair of extremely sharp scissors and just cut right through the middle of it's mouth. 1 month later both of them were doing fine.
Personally, I rather let the anemone split on it's own. I just feel bad slicing the anemone in half.
Personally, I rather let the anemone split on it's own. I just feel bad slicing the anemone in half.
Takara
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I don't think carpets split naturally?
Bruno
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^ Kind of barbaric!!!!
I don't know either, but I mean just in general, I would feel bad for any anemone.
I know! When I saw him about to do it I almost launched at him about to stop him, but the scissors where faster...
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ReefGrlGLH
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I would love to frag him. He is so big!! An i don't want to get rid of him as i had him for about a year now and his host i dont think would like it either...
I just take him out the water and just cut? IDK can someone explain how should i go about with it? Or should i just let him be?
I just take him out the water and just cut? IDK can someone explain how should i go about with it? Or should i just let him be?
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ReefGrlGLH
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I know! When I saw him about to do it I almost launched at him about to stop him, but the scissors where faster... [/QUOTE]
Well I would feel bad too but think of it this way you will have 2 and both of them will be happy.....
[/QUOTE]Well I would feel bad too but think of it this way you will have 2 and both of them will be happy.....
In these videos he splits a gbta and in the second one a carpet. Personally, I would leave it be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7BdqxW4ka0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va1UAlYslhg&feature=related
The second video looks painful!
Thats actually one of the thing I try to avoid. I have a very happy huge sebae anemone hosting a pair of clowns and I don't want another anemone roaming around the tank. This happened with a gbta, it split and then it did it again and now I have two of them since I gave away the other two and I'm thinking of selling the other 2 that I have. I don't want to worry about the anemone stinging my other corals
didnt think you could frag a carpet...
Carpet Anemones, by virtue of their large size, sometimes "sticky" nature and general lack of hardiness in captivity are not good candidates for asexual propagation (fragmentation, cutting...). But sometimes they do this themselves... in reaction to favorable and disfavored conditions... the former are generally instigated by a growth, doubling of the mouth, ahead of actual binary fission. Best to encourage yours to split by taking the best care of it you can. This was taking from wet web media.
THEY SHOULD NOT BE CUT There are no success stories that you will find and I'm not talking about a couple of months they all waste away slowly.
If you love your carpet buy a bigger tank or give it up. That's why the reefs are being destroyed people removing animals and thinking of cutting them Just stupid. Remember there are three families of carpets and they are different in reproducing. Please do more research on the one you have and learn about its needs.
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=1381958 Open Anemone FAQ.
All that video shows is how to kill a carpet.
There was a story on reef central that someone had successfully cut a red Had but you here stories all the time.
good luck.
THEY SHOULD NOT BE CUT There are no success stories that you will find and I'm not talking about a couple of months they all waste away slowly.
If you love your carpet buy a bigger tank or give it up. That's why the reefs are being destroyed people removing animals and thinking of cutting them Just stupid. Remember there are three families of carpets and they are different in reproducing. Please do more research on the one you have and learn about its needs.
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=1381958 Open Anemone FAQ.
All that video shows is how to kill a carpet.
There was a story on reef central that someone had successfully cut a red Had but you here stories all the time.
good luck.
that vid was sick...its vids like that which fuel these myths that you can chop up an anemone to propagate. Just because they look like large ricordea doesnt mean they are.
side note: I definitely wouldnt want to eat over that guys house after he chopped up his carpet on his wooden butcher block.
"thats funny the broccoli tastes a little off tonight, whats the seasoning on it? "
reply, "anemone"
side note: I definitely wouldnt want to eat over that guys house after he chopped up his carpet on his wooden butcher block.
"thats funny the broccoli tastes a little off tonight, whats the seasoning on it? "
reply, "anemone"
Pinkskunk
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wow man, it certainly make me feel so ekkkkkkkkkkkkkk!
that guy is one sick person if you ask me
he does it so cold blooded.......... makes man i want to frag his hands !
i have carpets and they are all getting so big, but never thought of fragging them, after i see that video, i will never think about fragging them.
i am just curious though, what was his intention? WTF?
that guy is one sick person if you ask me
he does it so cold blooded.......... makes man i want to frag his hands !i have carpets and they are all getting so big, but never thought of fragging them, after i see that video, i will never think about fragging them.
i am just curious though, what was his intention? WTF?
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I personally wouldn't frag a carpet. They're hard to keep when they're hole nevermind when they're cut up... As far as I know the cutting right through the mouth works with BTAs and maybe LTA's. I've seen a cut up BTA and RBTA attatch to the glass in under 30 mins after being cut in half...
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ReefGrlGLH
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I wont cut him.... I'm just going to look for a BIGGER TANK!............
Thanks everyone for your input... Ya i know they are hard to keep and i had him from when i started my tank about a yr ago.
............Thanks everyone for your input... Ya i know they are hard to keep and i had him from when i started my tank about a yr ago.
Doherty
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I know..... That made me sick, I think that he used the dullest knife in his kitchen.
