Fraging LTA?
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zanoshanox
Active Member
I dont think you can frag anemones...
rwp1202
Member
I posted this request on another smaller web board and got hooked up with a well known author. It seems he actually has quite a few threads on the topic.
PM me if you would like link. I don't like to openly promote competing boards especially when they are a competing e-business. SWF has been very good to me, and I encourage people to support them.
PM me if you would like link. I don't like to openly promote competing boards especially when they are a competing e-business. SWF has been very good to me, and I encourage people to support them.
viper_930
Active Member
He was a speaker at some event a while ago and was talking about anemone propagation. I wasn't there, but it was told to me by another reefer. I don't have all the details though, so I'd rather not say anything and I do not recommend anybody trying this without research and success with keeping anemones.
rwp1202
Member
Viper
I appreciate your response and the degree of restraint to not flame me for asking a question that I knew to be faily controvercial in the hobby. I agree with your recommendation not to try this without at least having done extensive research on the topic.
While I have been keeping a reef for 4-5 years now, I am pretty new to anemones. I am very interested in reading information that supports both views of this process and would be interested in any links you may have that present the downside to fragging BTA's/LTA's. Any chance you have some links?
It was the article in Coral Magazine that first sparked my interest. Daniel Knop was the aurthor and shows fraging BTA's in detail with pictures. The June/July was dedicated to Hawk Fishes and to Anemones.
If you PM me, I can send you some links to threads and articles that I have found on the topic.
thanks for your interest in the topic and have a great holiday.
I appreciate your response and the degree of restraint to not flame me for asking a question that I knew to be faily controvercial in the hobby. I agree with your recommendation not to try this without at least having done extensive research on the topic.
While I have been keeping a reef for 4-5 years now, I am pretty new to anemones. I am very interested in reading information that supports both views of this process and would be interested in any links you may have that present the downside to fragging BTA's/LTA's. Any chance you have some links?
It was the article in Coral Magazine that first sparked my interest. Daniel Knop was the aurthor and shows fraging BTA's in detail with pictures. The June/July was dedicated to Hawk Fishes and to Anemones.
If you PM me, I can send you some links to threads and articles that I have found on the topic.
thanks for your interest in the topic and have a great holiday.
dmitry
Member
I just got an RBTA from someone who fragged his. I've got a picture in a thread I just started about her. I think the short of it is they take a very sharp knife and cut. We're used to doing it with corals, but anemones are different. So it seems rather...I don't know...almost sadistic to me. But then I'm a softie.
viper_930
Active Member
Originally Posted by rwp1202
While I have been keeping a reef for 4-5 years now, I am pretty new to anemones. I am very interested in reading information that supports both views of this process and would be interested in any links you may have that present the downside to fragging BTA's/LTA's. Any chance you have some links?
Nope, sorry I don't remember any other sites about anemone propagation.
While I have been keeping a reef for 4-5 years now, I am pretty new to anemones. I am very interested in reading information that supports both views of this process and would be interested in any links you may have that present the downside to fragging BTA's/LTA's. Any chance you have some links?
Nope, sorry I don't remember any other sites about anemone propagation.
dogstar
Active Member
IMO, if it can help save some from being wild collected then Im all for it but I would hope anyone wanting to try would research well and make sure they have a proper system for doing it because if it only results in the death of the animal then.............whats the point ??
Well known that many anemones are killed just by collection handleing and inexperienced people trying to keep them, let alone, frag them....
I would extend this advise about any coral or critter as well.
I have only seen the same mentioned author as far as knowledge about fraging anemones myself, but he seems to feel its commonly done among experienced hobbiest and most species are easily fragable except the Ritteri.
I have a 5 year kept LTA myself that I am very attached too and would not atempt to frag it even if it could result in some profit but if I had a large system or area to set up a system then I might would attempt it. Probly not with this one. But aquire more and try. Only after researching further into it though. IDK.
Well known that many anemones are killed just by collection handleing and inexperienced people trying to keep them, let alone, frag them....
I would extend this advise about any coral or critter as well.
I have only seen the same mentioned author as far as knowledge about fraging anemones myself, but he seems to feel its commonly done among experienced hobbiest and most species are easily fragable except the Ritteri.
I have a 5 year kept LTA myself that I am very attached too and would not atempt to frag it even if it could result in some profit but if I had a large system or area to set up a system then I might would attempt it. Probly not with this one. But aquire more and try. Only after researching further into it though. IDK.