[I do agree with Marc and if a person was to do this, I would say it should be under guidence from a person whom knows the in's and out's of such a procedsure. I have witnesses this 6-7 times from a chap/Marine-bio guy named Chris in Arilington Va. He did resurch under a chap named Albert Thiel and worked in places such as Indoneisa, Tiland, GBR, Hawaii, FL, S-Africa and so on and got me some of the most beautiful Indo rock that a person could ever believe, some 15 yrs ago.
I think I jumped a bit to a fast/slightly joking idea, to split a Carpet in ones first 10yrs of being in this hobby and maybe a person would never meet such a person as Albert Theil and or Chris in my case. I was guided by a person who did hands on for 3 years and my first tanks were 1(75)2(125's) and 1(200)gallon size tanks,all in the first 8-12 months. I was not a person who had no money going in and I had no quams to do as others had tought me. I think this was in a day that people really cared about tea-Ching others and now I think people think tea-Ching is a Chineese herbal Tea or something. I see some people do not even get out to help people as others did 17+years ago, when I got involved.
I think it is the Computer Age thing. I bought two systems $1,900 each in 1989 and 1 in 1990 and I to started with 2&4 bit mULTIMEDIA oPERATIONS, Wow! that was a walk down memory lane. I bought them for my business and so on I went into many a night reading the garble of books to operate these and started a computer course to boot.
Back to the Fish:
I did less as well, in the fish dept and getting to helping and learnings that I was working on with the Fish/Reef stuff, but I still managed to get my fish fix,( I called it) $ 200-400 per month, for the first 3-4 years. I bought all I could and traveled much to get stuff as well, 2-3-4 States over I would travel for a show or whatever.
I figure if a person does work on Spliting and or even Keeping this stuff, it requires much experimenting ANY WAY! a person looks at it.
Who are we to keep any Coral, " SAY the Indians?" Who are we to Keep any Land or Sky or Person or part of the Earth?
I am Deeply Sadened by the taking of Old Growth. Ever watch Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers?, well there it is, a simular pattern of," we take and use for us". If people try to Grow Coral and pass this on and try to Split things, with reef animals, there will be a way to grow and Stop taking from Mother earth. That is why I like Frags.
I remember 15+ years ago when people said we can never Grow coral and WHAT? happened?. I think if we re-plant the Trees and grow our own coral and Anems and so on, there will be a benifit in the long run. That is why we buy older homes, Yes, I/we could have bought a $389,000 home in Irving, 3 yrs ago, but I said, NO! more new Yuppiee stuff, that I will just tear out and want to put new stuff in and waist even more of this Earth's resorces. So I am re-building this 4,000sq and putting in Lots of Granite and Marble, with not much cost, just time and helping Mother Earth to boot.
I think the Issue/Topic has many Debateable points, but it is a person prefrence issue as well. Some call it Ex-pair-eat-mints, but I would say, "It's not bragging, if you can do it" and I have and have seen it done. Please do not think it is a happy walk in the park, it is stress and anguish all the way.
I think people that work in these fields should do proper research and conduct themselves in a proper Marine-Bioli fashion, charts graphs and so on. I personally have 4 file boxes of my research it Flight/plane stuff/data and 5-6 almost 6 in the Marine Bio stuff. I might missippsll a word here and there, but if I need a Secri I would have to pay for the service and thus the cost would be a business expence and cause much paper work, from the Grants/fundings.
I think it would be VERY unwise for a perosn to try a Split on a Carpet, without ample 10+yrs time in the hobby and a guiding hand in the first few. They can and will die fast, 3-4 days, if they are not cared and treated at the points of seperation. It is not an easy task and more of a complete Operation whitch requires dipping vatts and some 6-7-8 tricks to be completed. The steps are long and 3-4 weeks to see progress with such an operation. I might have spoken with a bit of Humorish non-shalont attitde, but it was on the note, of which I would guess that a person starting ot as about BTA's and Carpets would never go, being that if a person is asking these simple starter questions, it would be naturly assumed that they are not going to pay much attenshion to my Splitting coments. When did you,( the 5-10 yr vet of reefs) think to split one of these?, Never!, so come on, get with it, it was a humoris possibility that people can work toward, if not squemish and with the right knowledge.
Please stay away from the cuting table if you have not been involved for long and are still asking about what kind of lights should I use. Then again, do the same,( stay away from Propig) if you still are trying to figure out if and adjustment from 1.024 or 1.025 will kill off the entire tank.
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