Safe to keep multiple Carpet Anemone's?

[garygb]

I've never had E. crucifer asexually reproduce, but I have had them sexually reproduce and the offspring are currently from an inch across to several inches across.

 

[kinerson]

Do you have any evidence to substantiate this claim? Especially where the "rock flower anemone", E. crucifer is concerned. Any evidence at all?

The "mini mini"/ S. tapetum reproduces about as fast as aiptasia, so I don't doubt fragging this species could be successful. Although I don't understand why one would want to.

The "maxi mini" (Maybe a form of S. tapetum, maybe a completely different species????) hasn't been in the hobby long, so well documented success with fragging this animal is hard to come by. At least I haven't found it. I've seen evidence of people cutting them in half, but evidence of long term survival seems to be limited.

No I never bothered to formally create evidence of fragging the rockflower anemone succesfully. I didn't think it was something that was in question. And I am not looking to try to prove what I did. But I did do it and I kept both halves for over a year before selling/trading them away. They did not centralize there mouth nearly as fast as bta's do.

Mini Mini's do not always reproduce quickly for me which is the reason I force them by cutting them in half. I had an expensive red mini mini that I bought from an online vendor and it split for me once. I sold one of the halves, then waited for the other half to split again. Well it didn't want to but instead grew bigger and bigger. About twice the typical size. So I ended up cutting it. Worked like a charm.

Maxi Mini's (S. Tapetum) frag extremely well for me. I have never had any issue's with them at all. They are very hardy and tolerant. The first ones I split was a couple years ago when they were very uncommon and demanded a high price. I personally know of some that I cut a year ago and still going strong.

I'm afraid my thread has veered off course a bit though lol. I just wanted to know if two large carpets (haddonis) could/would live in close proximity to each other

 

[125mph]

Nice carpets todd! How many carpets do you have at the moment?

 

[kinerson]

And that is the thing, the expert above I mentioned, and an RC member (( who is no longer around )) both claimed to have done with with anemones that don't reproduce asexually, and they somehow never thought to take a picture; hmmmmmm

I saw some pics when that was happening. It was a while back though. I'm not sure now but 6-8 years ago I think. But pics of two halves is not proof of success but rather proof of the attempt. I seem to remember there was some people in CT (I think) that had got together and split a few. I think the count was up to 12 large carpets split before I stopped paying attention to it. I assumed it had been continuing since then. Apparently not and likely due to long to survival rates being low or perhaps zero. But I don't know for sure. I may have to look into it out of curiosity more then anything.