cutting an anenome
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Thurge
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I haven't done it yet but this is Calfo's procedure.
Only do this to the most healthy anemonys
place the anemony in a shallow dish
using a sterile, very sharp blade, make a clean cut across the animal, all the way through the foot, and across the mouth
seperate the two halfs and wait about 15 or so minutes.
Rince the halfs in clean tank water (I would take that as out of the tank and not New Salt Water) as the trauma will cause the halfs to produce coptious ammounts of slime and you don't want taht in the tank. This is also why you wait about 15 minutes.
Replace in the same general spot that the mother came from.
I have been researching this because I have a huge RBTA that seems happiest in one piece. Unfortunately most everythign around it would be happier if it wasn't so big. I can't get it out to completly cut it in half, so i am running through the gamet of tricks before I cut it as completly as I can.
Only do this to the most healthy anemonys
place the anemony in a shallow dish
using a sterile, very sharp blade, make a clean cut across the animal, all the way through the foot, and across the mouth
seperate the two halfs and wait about 15 or so minutes.
Rince the halfs in clean tank water (I would take that as out of the tank and not New Salt Water) as the trauma will cause the halfs to produce coptious ammounts of slime and you don't want taht in the tank. This is also why you wait about 15 minutes.
Replace in the same general spot that the mother came from.
I have been researching this because I have a huge RBTA that seems happiest in one piece. Unfortunately most everythign around it would be happier if it wasn't so big. I can't get it out to completly cut it in half, so i am running through the gamet of tricks before I cut it as completly as I can.
VSpeck
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i didnt know this was sutch a big deal i heard from a fellow reefer it worked so i took my condy and bta out of the water cut them and put them back in the tank. it worked for me but read up i was told cut them so both sides have half a mouth and they reformed within days and ate like normal. im with the people that say cut it just watch cause they will slime up and the rest of the tank doesnt get overly excited when that happens
They are both huge again. I have a percula Clown hosting mother. But he takes turns hosting the clone when he gets the mood he will host eithier. I thing I cant believe is how fast they recovered. i had thought for sure they would die they got tussled around in the flow landed in the sand a few times turned a dark color. I shut the lights down for the night after lodging them into crevises to keep them off the sand bed afraid my hermits would make a meal out of the halfs but next day they were completely full and flowing in the breeze attached themselves to rock and today they are both as big or bigger than the orig. Host BTA. Just a work of caution and Calfo says the same, get a half mouth on each. use a sterile Xacto scalpal blade and get them back into the water ASAP. Dont mess around too much. Even better do it in a pyrex dish with under water if you can. kinda hard they are slippery. I went to the extreme fearing the worse and used latex gloves but not necessary. They will take food in 2 days if you did it correctly. Also get your tank ready meaning your water is good shape and you wont be doing any in tank maintance or water changes for a few days after the cut so they can not be disturbed. I wanted to do the cut and not mess with them for a week but after day2 they seemed so healthy I moved them to where I wanted them in my display and they havent wandered to far since just to get in the flow where they liked it alittle better but other than that I highly recommend anyone who want to split an anemone give this a shot its alot of fun and satisfaction.
Looking top down at the anemone anemone mouth with the foot on a styrene cutting board; I start the cut at the mouth and work outwards to edge of the disk. Turn the board 180 degrees and repeat.
