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Unread 09/07/2015, 08:27 AM   #1
OrionN
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Zooxanthellae Transplant for Bleached Anemones

This is a copy of a posted of another of my thread. Maybe someone will find it useful.

I performed a Zooxanthellae transplant for my Bleached Gigantea today. I did photo documentation of the procedure as below:

1. Obtained a tentacle from my healthy donor. Since my anemone is so small, I will just use a small piece of fish, and just use 1 tentacle



2. Stuff the tentacle into a piece of food, salmon in this case:



3. Here is a picture of my anemone before I feed him the zooxznthallae laced food:



4. Feed the zooxanthellae laced food to the anemone:



5. Just follow up to make sure the anemone ate the food:



6. Post feeding picture:




I expect the anemone will start regain zooxanthellae in about 2 weeks. A little longer in this case because I did not feed him as many zooxanthellae as I wanted too.


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