any ways to help a BTA split?
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viper_930
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There are ways to encourage BTAs to split, but many are risky. The safest would be to give it a stable environment, lots of lighting, and lots of feeding.
More risky methods would be stressing it to split such as doing a large water change after many weeks of heavy feeding, sticking a tight rubber band around the anemone to basically squeeze it in half, or to take a sharp razor or scissors and just cut the anemone in half. I definitely would not recommend trying the rubber band or cutting method because of an extremely high mortality rate. Anemones are not easy to "frag" like some corals.
More risky methods would be stressing it to split such as doing a large water change after many weeks of heavy feeding, sticking a tight rubber band around the anemone to basically squeeze it in half, or to take a sharp razor or scissors and just cut the anemone in half. I definitely would not recommend trying the rubber band or cutting method because of an extremely high mortality rate. Anemones are not easy to "frag" like some corals.