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Last time I pm'ed them they'd been doing some fairly successful fish based Aiptasia eradication so they didn't have anything left, but I will be giving them a shout...

Hi, I'm working on coral/algal symbiosis at Victoria University in Wellington and I'm trying to get hold of some Aiptasia anemones to work with. Aiptasia are useful as a model organism as they're much easier to experimentally manipulate than corals. If anyone in Wellington has any Aiptasia that they'd be able to pass off to me then I would be very grateful. I would also happily accept them from elsewhere in the country and would pay any shipping costs. Please contact me at [email protected] if you can help. Cheers, Dan.

Unfortunately I only have dinoflagellate cultures (the symbiotic algae that live in coral and some anemones). I don' t know of anyone working with rotifers here...

I was mostly asking because I have a few cultures of algae (some of which were originally isolated from Aiptasia in the US) and I keep those at 25˚C. It sounds like conditions are probably ideal for the Aiptasia to grow which would explain why they are so much of a problem...

I'm currently working with native anemones (Anthopleura aureoradiata) but it would be useful to have some Aiptasia to work with as well as they are better known and have been studied mroe in the past. The general background behind the work feeds into coral bleaching and anemones (being related to corals) provide a good model system. What temperature do these Aiptasia seem to grow fastest at? Cheers, Dan.

Hi, I'm a marine biologist at Vic Uni in Wellington and I've seen a lot of mentions across the forum about Aiptasia. Does anyone know if these anemones are the Atlantic or Pacific species (A. puchella or A.pallida)? I would really appreciate some samples if anyone has the time to remove them in one piece from their aquarium. I can provide dishes and drop them off/collect them from the kelburn end of Wellington. You can contact me at daniel.logan at vuw dot ac dot nz Cheers, Dan.