How to frag LTA?

Really like your last paragraph -- I have had a few run in with him about anemone care -- according to him my S. Haddonis should have died years ago. And I totally agree about the countless anemone deaths that he has caused, it is really a shame, and still don't understand why he says what he does -- ego perhaps?

Okay, I will stop.
 
You know, I've always heard/believed it's next to impossible to do this, and would never think of doing this myself, but it was hearing of him doing this that made me not absolute in my own advice of it being impossible.
Good to hear this brought out to clarify, I too have never seen the long term or end results.
I know Calfo's advice and experience has been questioned by many exp reefers quite often.
 
Yup, the advice he gives of being able to propogate LTA's like BTA's is irresponsible imo, especially since he is so well respected in the hobby. Ever wonder why a BTA that goes into a powerhead (foot and tentacles shredded) can survive, but a LTA with a damaged foot always dies?
 
If I dont sell it in a month or so, I will attempt to frag it! And I will support my experiment with pictures! Not only words lol! Maybe I will bve the first to officially succeed! Wish me luck! I will start a new thread for this experiment! :)
 
My advise would be not to but if you are bound and determined to cut it, only cut it in half with something sharp enough to do it it one stroke.

It's not a pie so only cut it in half..(although I'd say not at all)
 
ocyoo said:
If I dont sell it in a month or so, I will attempt to frag it! And I will support my experiment with pictures! Not only words lol! Maybe I will bve the first to officially succeed! Wish me luck! I will start a new thread for this experiment! :)
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Well that is truly sad.:sad2: It is your anemone though, and we can't stop you. Even though you've been warned what the outcome will be. If you do cut this anemone, I sincerely hope you document the whole process here. All the way through the death of the animal. If any good is to come from this, maybe your documented experience will help show others how flawed this practice is.
 
ocyoo said:
If I dont sell it in a month or so, I will attempt to frag it! And I will support my experiment with pictures! Not only words lol! Maybe I will bve the first to officially succeed! Wish me luck! I will start a new thread for this experiment! :)
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So wait, you purchase an anemone that was going to get too big for your tank, and guess what it did, so your answer is to cut it if you can't sell it in a month?

Did you read any of the posts in this thread?

Have you even attempted to try this with an anemone that naturally splits? (( E. Quadricolor )).
 
This is like trying to cut a person..if only we could make clones of ourselves..whew that would be a nightmare! This anemone is one animal, not a colony like a coral. Seriously, yeah maybe you'll be able to let people know this cutting can be done but the LTA WILL die! In the mean time you will be killing what could of been a good home taken from the clowns in the wild. I agree EC truly sad :(
 
I'm STILL trying to figure out why in the hell anyone would even attempt this?


If you adopted a puppy, and in a year he was "too big" for your apartment, would you try to cut it in half too?


If you cant keep the nem in your tank, and you cant sell it, GIVE THE DAMN THING AWAY.
 
As everyone else said before why waste a perfectly healthy LTA? I'm sure you will have many buyers for a healthy LTA as they do have demand. Like I also said before, LTA's with holes or other damage to the foot always die. What makes you think it can survive a cut straight down the middle of the body and foot?
 
I'm not really wondering. People who are chastised are always quick to prove themselves right. People who take their time do so because they have nothing to gain by answering.
 
In case people are curious about broadcast spawning of anemones, here's a paper on spawning of E. quadricolor and H. crispa. The author has no direct experience with M. doreensis (I have asked previously).

E. quadricolor and H. magnifica are well-known for asexual reproduction via division in captive environments. I have heard at least a few reputable claims of successfully manually splitting these. Success rates are far from 100%. I have heard a single reputable claim of someone successfully splitting a S. haddoni. I have not encountered a single other reputable claim of any other clown anemone being manually split. Doesn't mean it hasn't happened - just that I haven't seen it.
 
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Thanks much Bonsai, very interesting reading. Fascinating that they spawn in temperatures as low as 66F. The descriptions of the behavior of the anemones are just like what I've observed in E. quadricolor, elongate body, spawning after the lights go out. For mine, it seems it happens in late spring or early summer when the first warm days of the year occur. I assumed spawning was directly related to temperature. Not sure mine are able to know the lunar cycles. I've also observed that the anemones that are going to spawn will not take food the day before they spawn.
 
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