Fragged My Magenta Magnifica

Flighty

Flighty

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I did it! Chopped it in half one month ago. I had been feeding as heavily as I could for two months and the anemone at least doubled in size so I bit the bullet and chopped it in half with scissors and finished the cut with a razor.

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It took longer than a bubble tip to heal, but not too much longer. It has only been a month and the wall is completely healed and the mouth is migrating towards the center.

The purpleish pink line is where the two sides of the cut came together and fused.
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They are eating shrimp like before the surgery, but a lot slower. I think I will stick with smaller pieces for a while after this feeding.
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I'm with GSMguy. That's insane! I would never have the nerve to do that. Especially after reading Phender's thread about his Mertensii. Looks like everything went well for you though. Do you think you're out of the wood yet? I'm still battling to get mine healthy again.:rolleyes: How big are the anemones now? They are beautiful BTW.:)
 
wow, that is certainly incredible. well done on a very valuable experiment! and with such a beautiful anemone!
 
Very nice! Congrats.
You did a brave thing. I hope they continue to thrive. I think you are right, small pieces of food would be best. You still want to keep the stress to a minimum.
 
Well, I figured It was time to fish or cut bait with these guys. We know they can be manually divided (most info points to almost as easily as BTAs). It's time to stop pussyfooting around and do something to create a hobbyist grown supply and slow down the drain of them from the wild. We know that the overwhelming majority of them collected out there do not survive to our tanks and we know that captive propagated locally supplied would do much better.

How much would we as anemone buffs pay for smaller (easier to transport), captive supplied, premium color magnificas rather than the crap-shoot of wild collected?

Lets go magnifica keepers! It shouldn't' be long before the hobby is abuzz with getting their hands on a genuine Flighty's Fuchsia or a Popeil Purple, maybe a GSM Green Monster? Don't let the SPS guys have all the fun.
 
To answer the questions, both halves are about 10" diameter at the most stretched out. When I got the parent 4 months ago it was about 8" across.

To cut it I got it to move onto a glass bowl (for a smooth surface) and cut it in place. I didn't feed it for a week prior in theory to make it less prone to infection from food inside of it. I did the bulk of the cut with ordinary sewing scissors and finished the bit left attached with a razor. I chose the scissors because this thing was so big, there was no way to do a good quick cut with just a blade. There really wasn't any of the squished tissue I imagined would come from using scissors, so I would recomend this method.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13202176#post13202176 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Flighty
Lets go magnifica keepers!
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Care to questimate how many long term magnifica keepers there are with specimens ready for such prop?

It would be nice to see folks at least keep them for a period of time, confirm they are actually putting on mass, and eating reqularly before putting them under the knife.

Glad you put one of your established candidates to the test, not many folks have one to experiment with :>)

Best of luck and keep us up to date.
 
DUUUUUDE

DUUUUUDE

I gotta tell ya that took some reef balls.

My 15 inch gigantea just got a three inch section chewed up by a vortech when i pulled off the guard to clean it. Lucky its not bad and its still eating.

I almost cryed two years in captivity.


Good luck. Ill take a clone if it works out.
 
Re: DUUUUUDE

Re: DUUUUUDE

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13202439#post13202439 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Reefvette
DUUUDE
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Flighty is a she :D

Congrats, keep us posted on the progress.
 
ive never owned one, you wont see me cutting one up, but those ones on divers den tonight had me tempted. i want a healthy one so bad im not willing to buy one online i dont think.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13202176#post13202176 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Flighty
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How much would we as anemone buffs pay for smaller (easier to transport), captive supplied, premium color magnificas rather than the crap-shoot of wild collected?

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That is the question isn't it. I know that I would pay more for sure. Great work.
 
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My plan is to feed these guys and get them growing. Once they are 14" or 15" inches across again I will split one and let the other continue to grow naturally and see if it ever splits on its own or how big it will grow. The others I will try to multiply and eventually see if they acclimate to local reefers tanks as well as I anticipate. Further out than that I can't plan but I'm one step closer to my main display looking like one of those fields of magnifica clones :)
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13202176#post13202176 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Flighty
Well, I figured It was time to fish or cut bait with these guys. We know they can be manually divided (most info points to almost as easily as BTAs). It's time to stop pussyfooting around and do something to create a hobbyist grown supply and slow down the drain of them from the wild. We know that the overwhelming majority of them collected out there do not survive to our tanks and we know that captive propagated locally supplied would do much better.

How much would we as anemone buffs pay for smaller (easier to transport), captive supplied, premium color magnificas rather than the crap-shoot of wild collected?

Lets go magnifica keepers! It shouldn't' be long before the hobby is abuzz with getting their hands on a genuine Flighty's Fuchsia or a Popeil Purple, maybe a GSM Green Monster? Don't let the SPS guys have all the fun.
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Yeah right on! I'm not a mag keeper yet but one day definitely will be. As soon as I complete my degree in aquaculture I'm going to be concentrating on breeding those rare animals that we are depleting the reefs of. Magnifica reproduction is one of the animals I want to concentrate on possibly commercially breeding so keep me up to date on your success with this method Flighty!
 
DUDE

DUDE

Dude has evolved into a more general term that can be used for a male or a female.


from wiki

"Dude is, under certain circumstances, gender-neutral. Mostly used by young men, it has also evolved to be used by women."

anyways nice anemone your a brave soul.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13202310#post13202310 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by traveller7
Care to questimate how many long term magnifica keepers there are with specimens ready for such prop?

It would be nice to see folks at least keep them for a period of time, confirm they are actually putting on mass, and eating reqularly before putting them under the knife.

Glad you put one of your established candidates to the test, not many folks have one to experiment with :>)

Best of luck and keep us up to date.
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I have had my H. Magnifica for over 5 years and it is ~ 2' in diameter at its fullest YET I would NEVER take that kind of risk..... KUDOS TO YOU FOR DOING THIS AND BEING SUCCESSFUL.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13205133#post13205133 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by irishrose302
I have had my H. Magnifica for over 5 years and it is ~ 2' in diameter at its fullest YET I would NEVER take that kind of risk..... KUDOS TO YOU FOR DOING THIS AND BEING SUCCESSFUL.
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Yours would be a good candidate, but the rest of inhabitants, environment, etc. would be variables you would want to control.

I would not try it with display specimens, but if I was to run a purpose built single parent line system without porous substrate....no comment ;>)
 
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