Cut / No Cut & Compatibility

[AcroporaUK]

Hi all


two queries.


if you had an extremely rare Pink morph Long Tenticle Anenome (Crispa ?) about 15" across, knowing that sometime in the next 10 years it's probably going to die of one hting or another (mechnaical, electrical etc etc), would you attempt to frag it ?

Secondly


Would you try and keep a gigantea with a LTA ?


Any comments would be much appreciated.


(Tank reviewed and still much the same as it was when featured in Tank of the Month, Reef Central. a long time ago).

Regards


Martin

 

[phender]

Can we see a pic of the anemone for ID purposes?
Here in the States we usually call M. doorensis an LTA and H. crispa we call a sebae anemone.

If it is M. doorensis I would say not cutting. For a H. crispa I would say probably not.

One of the major exponents of cutting anemones says that he has cut every species and all have recovered well. In the stories I have seen, he talks about cutting a bunch of anemones and coming back a half hour later and you couldn't tell by looking that they had been cut. What he doesn't say is how well they were doing after a couple months.

IME, even though the anemone reforms a circle quickly, the actual healing process takes months in anemones that don't naturally clone themselves. During those months, there are all sorts of bad things that can happen in addition to them not being able to eat very well, if at all.

I have heard that H. crispa my be able to reproduce by budding off the column. I haven't heard any thing about M. doorensis reproducing asexually at all. In my opinion H. crispa would be a slightly smaller risk than M. doorensis, but not enough to risk a specimen as unique as yours.

 

[reef bloke]

A couple of pictures of Acropora's Anemone in tank for him

 

[kimsie]

Wow - that is a beautiful tank!! Do you have any pics of the base of the anemone or where it is attached?

 

[wicked_NaCl_h2o]

Looks like a sebae (H. Crispa) to me..too many tentacles for it to be a M. Doreensis. I agree..nice tank

 

[reef bloke]

Alas i couldnt get a pic of the foot when i took those pics,not sure if Acropora has any older ones of the foot though.

 

[kimsie]

Cool... it's just such a beautiful anemone I wanted to see the rest of it!

 

[Gig 'em]

Wow, that is a magnificent anemone. Although I have never had any experience splitting this specific anemone, I would assume looking at the biological structure of anemones that any anemone can survive a perfect split as long as it doesn't become infected. What may separate one species from another in success of manual splitting is it's natural immune defense after being cut. But one way to prevent an infection is to keep the anemone in a separate, low flow tank and add Tetracycline. It may be worth a try.

 

[AcroporaUK]

Hi all

Hi all

Thanks Reefbloke for posting pictures. next time some one comes around with a camera, I'll get some photos underneath.

Any thoughts on the compatibilty issue ?

regards

Martin

 

[LesMartin]

As long as you can give the gigantea the flow and light that they like I don't see any problems with compatibility. I know a lot of folks think that they have experienced adverse reactions in anemones when a different species has been introduced to a tank due to assumed chemical warfare interactions. I don't believe in this as I have kept several host anemone combinations without any perceived issues including gigantea + haddoni, gigantea + crispa and currently haddoni + magnifica. Nice anemone by the way !