Spliting rose anemones

[acuralegend94]

Hey, I was talking to a fellow reefer awhile back and he said that he split his anemone by leaving it in a bucket overnight... he said the temperature change overnight caused the anemone to split due to stress... I think he said he has done it twice with success... anybody ever try this?

 

[robert_ellis]

Hey, I was talking to a fellow reefer awhile back and he said that he split his anemone by leaving it in a bucket overnight... he said the temperature change overnight caused the anemone to split due to stress... I think he said he has done it twice with success... anybody ever try this?

Honestly I wouldn't cause stress to Make it split... Let it do it naturally. Also people have had them split from feeding them. Try to stay away from stress as much as possible.

 

[acuralegend94]

Yeah I just thought it was crazy that it would do that overnight just because of a temperature change.

 

[h0ndap0w3r]

Ivr heard of people putting them in a bucket and shaking it every hour or so to get thrm to split.... also heard of people fingering them haha

 

[happaman]

Mine have split after a temp spike in the tank. Bad idea imho to stress them to split. Agree with previous about feeding. Feed it every day and it'll split for you.

 

[BeanMachine]

I used a chisel last week on some rock that I bought with one on it to make the rock smaller. I accidentally sliced it right in half. It was by accident but it did happen to split right through the mouth. Both are doing well. I could have easily damaged them I just got lucky.

 

[acuralegend94]

Lmao got lucky!

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[acuralegend94]

Can't you over feed an anemone?

Mine have split after a temp spike in the tank. Bad idea imho to stress them to split. Agree with previous about feeding. Feed it every day and it'll split for you.

 

[Usingthejohn]

I believe if a nem doesnt want to eat it just spits out the food

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