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saltwater6900

saltwater6900

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i have a rbta that i got from deb about 5-6 months ago and it was about 8 inch and very good looking. well i still have it today and looks as good as the day i got it but it is at least 12-15 inches in dia and will not split it is huge does any one no why it might not be spilting.
 
Cuz anemones don't split just for the hell of it. It'll do so when and if it feels the need. Not just because it is a certain size or because a certain amount of time has passed.
 
Take it out of the water, let it expel all its water, it will shrink pretty small.

Take a sharp knife & slice it in 2. (not recomended to do 4).

Rinse in fresh saltwater for 2-4 hours.

Return to tank

Feed the next day.
 
It will expel water on it's own.

Use a scaple and a cutting board.

I would not recommend fresh saltwater...I would use tank water. That is what it is used to. No need to stress it out more. Personally I have never did this. I just cut and put back in the tank. I have done 4 many times before and never lost one.

Feeding the next day is useless as it's mouth/foot will not be healed yet. Just feed it light.
 
Here is an important quote from Anthony



" oooh... and another thing. These such exudates can be extremely toxic to fishes from the anemone propagation! Hence the need for strict farming husbandry (props out of the tank, water baths, monspecifric cultures, etc)

To the poor chap that makes the mistake of propping an anemone and putting it right back into a display aquarium wish fishes... can be tragedy"

Anthony Calfo

Another thing he stressed to me is that one & only one anemone in a tank, unless they are clones.

Take some pictures for us if you try it.
Craig
 
I guess the 50 or so I have cut I was just lucky...call me a poor chap!

What is the reasoning for one and only one anemone in a tank, unless they are clones? At one time I probably had 20 different amemonies in a tank from atleast 5 different ones in a 40 gallon tank. No problems.
 
Ya he said it dont happen often but it can devastate a tank in some instances.

The reasoning of only 1 clone per tank is that they will wage chemical warfare. Again maybe not everytime, but enough where it really irks him if you try to reason against it.

I dont have much experience myself, just passing on conversations I had with Anthony & posts he made.

He has some pretty good writings on the subject. The most concerning to me is that 9 out of 10 wild anemones will die before making it to a LFS. Which is sad considering how easy they are to propagate.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12291313#post12291313 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by xroads
Ya he said it dont happen often but it can devastate a tank in some instances.

The reasoning of only 1 clone per tank is that they will wage chemical warfare. Again maybe not everytime, but enough where it really irks him if you try to reason against it.

I dont have much experience myself, just passing on conversations I had with Anthony & posts he made.

He has some pretty good writings on the subject. The most concerning to me is that 9 out of 10 wild anemones will die before making it to a LFS. Which is sad considering how easy they are to propagate.
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I have heard the same. Chemical warfare, followed by serious toxicity of the water.
 
Until your fairly experienced at fragging I wouldn't try cutting it. Theres alot of easy ways to cause far more problems if it's done wrong.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12291313#post12291313 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by xroads
The most concerning to me is that 9 out of 10 wild anemones will die before making it to a LFS. Which is sad considering how easy they are to propagate.
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This statistic includes all anemones, not many species of anemone take well to aquarium life, and especially do not do well during propagation. The BTA is the exception to the rule and is also the best suited for aquarium life. I would not say BTA's are "easy" to propagate just for the fact that they are still not "easy" to keep healthy for unexperianced hobbiests.

For anyone looking to do some BTA propagating/cutting, my best advice would be to do anemone propagation out of the main tank using tank water, then return the rinsed cut sections to a tank that is plumbed to the main tank with the return line fitted with a carbon filter. This way you get the benefits of aged water to decrease stress on the cuttings plus you use carbon to filter the toxins before they are returned to the main tank.

Or you could use my clownfish method of using aged water tank water to setup a seperate prop tank. You could add an aged fliter to the tank also. Aged filters are made by running a filter on an established tank for at least 2 weeks prior to use.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12294015#post12294015 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by glaspie69
Until your fairly experienced at fragging I wouldn't try cutting it. Theres alot of easy ways to cause far more problems if it's done wrong.
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The most important part of fragging is to convince yourself that you don't care if something dies or not. . If you care too much about something it will die if you look at it funny. If you can convince yourself you don't care if it dies you will not be able to kill it.

On that note, I sliced my RBTA up about two months ago. I used a teflon cutting board and a razor sharp filet knife. I like that better then a scalpel as I can cut it in one nice slice. I let it sit in tank water (floating in the sump) for about an hour and threw them back in the tank. They are both fat and hapy now.

Like Jason is saying though, if you have not done much fragging and are not comfortable doing it I would avoid messing with it as you will enivitably kill it.
 
My advice is DON"T frag it. This anemone splits quite well on it's own. BE PATIENT!!!! It seems that it's splitting has to do with the moon. Every time mine has split, the others that I have in maintenance accounts and friends tanks split with in the week, and it's usually several days after there's been a full moon. The anemone that you bought split probably a month or so before you bought it, so it may not be ready quiet yet. I would echo the comments of the person who said if you're going to try to cut something, it had better be something you don't mind loosing. Everyone who has this anemone, has had it split.
 
i feed mine a mix i made my self it is uncooked shrimp misis shrimp brine shrimp salamon spinich carrots BROCCOLI tulpia the sea weed you buy for chip clips for the tangs and a few different fish flakes and i put it all in a blender and my fish love it and i also use a turkey baster to put food in my rbta and he loves it
 
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