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Old 01-09-2012, 12:46 AM
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They grow pretty slow so I don't do it often but I have cut two Trachyphyllia and one Lobophyllia. I usually use an Inland bandsaw but I have used a wet tile saw and a rotary tool with a diamond wheel before. If the piece only has one mouth it works to cut it right down the middle.

I took this first set of pictures one week apart (I think).








I cut this one into 4 or 6 pieces.




This was only 1/4" and survived to grow into a nice little piece. You can see an amphipod sitting beside it.


I don't have the fragged pictures of this one handy. But I successfully cut it into about 8 little pieces. I kept one of them which I could take pick of later.
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