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 !




Then I cut it !




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





Anyone interested in 1/2 a trachyphyllia !



All the best.




Wendell

PS Next week ill do an Ausy Scoly !

[Zoaelite]

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!

[whatcaneyedo]

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.



Here are two freshly cut halves.



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



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



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.

[the marine apprentice]

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

[whatcaneyedo]

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

[whatcaneyedo]

Here are two followup pictures to my cut job.

May 25


June 6