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| Well I cut my rose anemone a week ago for the first time and it did not go to well. I lost one and I believe the other half might make it but not sure. I'm doing everything to help it along. I think I poisoned them by putting a new well rinsed indoor/outdoor mat in the tank without submerging it in water for a couple months for chemicals to leach out? It looked to be 100% plastic. I also put a green anemone in the same tank for only one night and the next day they looked bad. Did the green anemone kill them while they were trying to heal. This was really disheartening to kill my beautiful anemone, but I'm not going to give up.
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Ouch, sorry to hear that. It really is hard to lose one, after all the work of building them up for months. They are so much more reactive than coral, they are much closer to being "pets" to me. I've lost three clones post cutting over the course of my propagation and it really is disheartening. I don't know about the carpet you used, I haven't tried anything like that yet but if you suspect I hope you already removed it. Hope that one clone makes it for you!
-Sonja
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| Redsonja, Do you think the green anemone I put in the tank killed the healing rose anemone(s)? I really suspect that the carpet I used and didn't soak very well played a big role in it/them dieing? My first two weeks of anemone farming have been a disaster. First I received a frozen super green anemone that was dead(storm related). The replacement arrives looking really brown. Does a brown green bubble tip anemone ever become bright green? Okay now I need a nice looking tank raised rose and green BTA to start over. Thanks
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yinz (2/25/2007)
Redsonja, Do you think the green anemone I put in the tank killed the healing rose anemone(s)? I really suspect that the carpet I used and didn't soak very well played a big role in it/them dieing? My first two weeks of anemone farming have been a disaster. First I received a frozen super green anemone that was dead(storm related). The replacement arrives looking really brown. Does a brown green bubble tip anemone ever become bright green? Okay now I need a nice looking tank raised rose and green BTA to start over. Thanks I can't really say if mixing them during healing would kill the healing anemone, but I can say that I had a RBTA and GBTA in the same tank and neither seemed all that healthy. I split the two up into different tanks, and the RBTA blew up like a baloon (in a good way) and started growing like a weed almost. Mixing species or even non-clones is not a good idea. As far as coloration is concerned, My RBTA's are more brown than anything under 5500k 90 CRI shop lights, but when they are placed under higher Kelvin lights they regain their RBTA coloration quite quickly.
Todd
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mixing might not have been the cause of the problem... but with uncut anemones it is a long term challenge at leastm and with stressed anemones (a cut one in this case) its brutal (read: bad husbandry) to mix species (even some same-species mixes that are not clones is a source of aggression!)
.Anthony Calfo
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