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10/29/2006, 03:49 PM
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Breeding Sea anemones!
I found this on the web and from what it sounds this scientist has figured out a way to breed and raise sea anemones. She obtained a patent for her breeding methods
. http://www.sflorg.com/earthnews/en072406_01.html what do you guys thingk?
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10/29/2006, 09:21 PM
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i dont believe getting anemones to breed is the hard part its getting the larvea to survive and settle out.
then raising a enormous number of anemones which produce huge amounts of waste and need prestine water conditions, that will be the challenge.
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10/29/2006, 09:35 PM
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Yeah, I know.
You are right about their being nothing particularly interesting about aiptasia, but they are a good lab "guinea pig" to experiment with. Knowledge they gain from their sexual reproduction may apply to host anemones as well. But then again it may not. from what I have read, the good thing is that it sounds like anemones settle to the substrate quickly. Another problem would be in understanding what Zooplankton/phtyoplankton the anemones feed on and when they start hosting xooanthellae. I am just making food for thought. I mean, they breed and farm tridacnid clams. Why not anemones?
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10/29/2006, 10:20 PM
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Apparently it has already been done with S. gigantea at a coral farm in Palau. Scroll down to the bottom of the page of this article.
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issu...02/feature.htm
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10/29/2006, 11:22 PM
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Very cool! Too bad the article doesn't mention which specific species she's working with. I wish her all the best of luck, we need to see these sorts of endeavours succeed.
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10/30/2006, 12:31 AM
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I wonder what she patented? Certainly not the act of spawning or splitting.... I don't think you can patent that.
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10/30/2006, 01:04 AM
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10/30/2006, 01:34 AM
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10/30/2006, 08:22 AM
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I applaud the research effort.
Some fact checker does not spend enough time on RC: "World first photograph: a male Heteractis crispa spawns (Anna Scott)" Will need to go find some dates on the old pictures
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10/30/2006, 08:24 AM
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10/30/2006, 08:34 AM
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ok what i know from aiptasia going sexual is that the larvea tend to settle out after 6-10hrs and gain zoo. almost immidiately. they go after copepods and cyclopeeze after 48hrs.
but i say that after they went sexual in my 20g you couldnt see anything but aptasia on the glass substrate live rock equipment, probably close to a couple thousand not including what the skimmer got(i had a full cup of skimmate after the event). i did have quite a high spike in ammonia after it occured, probably do to them being destroyed by pumps etc. i believe that i seen some where that the bulb tips at the waikiki aquarium breed and they stated that they settled out at 48hrs and gained zoo. shortly after and began feeding on copepods at 72hrs. i dont believe any survived.
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10/30/2006, 04:50 PM
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Reproducing cockroaches of the sea under strict lab conditions  Maybe her press coverage should have been more comprehensive.
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10/30/2006, 05:25 PM
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What an awesome goal! I applaud this young lady's efforts!! I hope she is successful!
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10/30/2006, 05:39 PM
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10/30/2006, 06:24 PM
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10/30/2006, 06:29 PM
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10/30/2006, 06:33 PM
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Re: Breeding Sea anemones!
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Anyone can successfully create a foundation of aptasia. All you need is one to start with. I wish that link you gave the specific names of anemones she is trying to successfully spawn and breed.
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10/30/2006, 06:39 PM
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10/31/2006, 10:22 AM
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but no pictures of those just the aiptasia so makes me wonder if the names of the other 2 were just given or are there actual nems and do they have any spawning going on.
Im not convinced until we see pictures of bta/crispas captive raised and living.
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10/31/2006, 10:53 AM
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 If she has fully raised this species, I would be interested in techniques she used to raise them. It wouldn't be incredibly difficult to raise them (at least extrapolating to other species).
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