Cutting a Trachyphyllia
 

Jim's off today and I thought it would be nice to bring a trachyphyllia home, but with only a 34G Solana it needed to be cut !

http://i430.photobucket.com/albums/q...hylliaFull.jpg


Then I cut it !

http://i430.photobucket.com/albums/q...ylliaSplit.jpg


I'll give it some time to heal and then take the other half home !

http://i430.photobucket.com/albums/q...plitinTank.jpg



Anyone interested in 1/2 a trachyphyllia !



All the best.




Wendell

PS Next week ill do an Ausy Scoly !

Wendell have you ever thought of cutting a few apart and then Frankensteinin them back together with different partners? I saw a thread on RC where it was done and it created the craziest combos!

Its actually pretty easy eh? What did you use? I've been using an Inland diamond bandsaw. I've cut this one 4 times now.

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...cture076-1.jpg

Here are two freshly cut halves.

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...Picture040.jpg

Here is one of the pieces fully healed a while later.

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...eyedo/18-1.jpg

And here is a little piece that accidently broke off and formed a mini colony. Red arrow points towards a pod to show scale.

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...icture1215.jpg

I just cut this one a few days ago. Picture is from right after cutting. I'll take a picture in a few weeks when it has healed fully and looks like normal again.

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...icture1226.jpg

how do you guys cut these? like between two mouths or what?
what can all be used to cut them

Between or through the mouth(s). Its best to have each piece with a mouth or at least part of a mouth. However the little brain that I ended up with originated as just a bit of flesh on skeleton with no mouth so it is possible to cut anywhere and still end up with a new colony. I've used a wet bandsaw, tile saw and dremal all with diamond blades. I've also heard of using a ring saw or even a hack saw or chisel but those last two would be much more damaging.

A link to this video has been posted a few times on this site http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/sho...ighlight=video

Here are two followup pictures to my cut job.

May 25
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...icture1241.jpg

June 6
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...icture1255.jpg

Wow. Good job guys

What a beautiful piece. I would love a piece of that 1 day!

Wow...isn't nature amazing!! And a beautiful piece that is!!