You could try fragging it maybe? If you were brave enough!! I dunno, I've read Calfo's take on this and he has some points about captive raised specimens and blah blah blah, the theory is all good, it just seems to me to be a risky endeavour on two fronts: #1, it has to be a near mortal injury to be split in two, .. but, #2, man alive I've seen the goo that comes out of of a tiny injury to an anemone so to think what would spew out and slime up for a halfing must be significant, you'd need to have a QT area that you isolate from the main tank and skim heavily before reintroducing into the main tank, exposure to that can't be good for the other inhabitants. I had a couple tank kill-offs just moving my ritteri anemone, it could just kill an entire tankload of fish just because it was annoyed at being moved, no idea what it was releasing, nematocysts or something else, I don't know, but my fish all suffocated within minutes to hours .. it was very brutal. So I myself am now chicken with these things, but I guess we can't learn anything by doing nothing, so I don't know what the best call is..
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