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I am in the process of selling my home and moving to Atlanta, where my Anemone Propagation will become our family business run from our basement. In light of the current real estate market in California I figured it was a good time to get working on getting RBTA brood stock numbers up and testing the technique on an LTA.
Here is the basic system...
A close up of the RBTA tank...
20 gallon long on the right is for the RBTA. The 7 gallon bow front on the left is for LTA. Both the tanks have a HOB refugium on it with some live rock rubble and heater. Lighting is from a fixture from Home Depot, $40, 2 36watt t-8 bulbs. The bulbs are phillips 6500K bulbs, nice and bright. It is on a 12 hour light cycle, does it need to be that long? I do not have any pics of the RBTA split. They were split 1 week ago and are looking pretty good. Both are healing nicely.
Here are some pics of the LTA split.
LTA nice and happy prior to the cut...(see the rbta in the lower right corner, nice and happy)
here is the LTA waiting for the procedure.
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one small cut for LTA, one large step for the reef!
and finally about 36 hours after the cut, healing has begun, but much slower than the RBTA heals.
Based on the first 36 hours, the LTA will have a much longer harvest cycle that the BTA, time will tell more on this story.
I am having one problem with the BTA tank. I am not sure what it is but I have a lot of bubbles on the surface.
My first thought was soap, but they are not behaving like soap bubbles. If I place my arm in the tank, all the bubbles go away for an hour, then they start to collect again. I am going to do a 50% water change today. But I have already done that once, with no changes.
Thanks!
-- Bryan
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proteinaceous slough... no worries. Stressed cnidarians exude a lot of mucus... proteins migrate to the surface of the aquarium (as sea foam does on the ocean) and aeration forms the bubbles. Your arm breaks the sheen... all is right in the world.  No worries, but yes - please skim aggressively, change small amounts of carbon weekely... and always do a large water change soon after such imposed propagation. Thank you for sharing these pictures!!!
. Anthony Calfo
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| 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  See the archived anemone links in this forum Good luck with this farm, my friend!
. Anthony Calfo
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| Nice Setup Wardaddy! I am in the Atlanta area so if you need anything held or shipped or just some help let me know! Hopefully you'll be successful! I know we sure need some supply!
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