blue carpet anemone

[rsarvis]

saltwaterfish.com has blue carpet anemones in; they're $99. is this a good/reasonable price?

 

i kinda want one, but i've sworn off spending much money (although i was oddly tempted by that 180g craigslist link posted last week...). assuming blue carpet anemones can be split like other anemones, are there other folks out there who'd be interested in buying one and then (i guess after a suitable amount of time to get over the stress of shipping) splitting it up?

 

this hobby reminds me of what a sailing hobbyist said to me about boats: they're a hole in the water into which you pour money. seems like reef aquaria are tanks of water into which you pour money.

 

[BeltwayBandit]

Carpets are very difficult to split manually. To date, I know of no one who has had long term success with splitting them in this manner. There was a post on RC about someone who tried it. He was a very experienced reefer, but even then neither of the clones lived for more than ~6 months.

 

I would not try it.

 

BB

[ReeferMan]

I want to say i have heard they cannot be manual split and expected to make it

[traveller7]

Based on my experience, the suggestion would be throwing good money after bad.

 

Quite a few of the blue carpets available are S. gigantea, death magnets which rarely make it 10 days.

 

fwiw: I have yet to see a long term successful manual division of S. haddoni, maybe you can be first, or join the others that have failed.

[rsarvis]

Okay, never mind then!

 

Thanks for sharing the wisdom.

[Leishman]

Here's Mike's

 

 

he's had it a looong time

[rsarvis]

dang that's big. how much would that baby fetch?

 

Here's Mike's

 

 

he's had it a looong time