{"id":2522,"date":"2015-12-17T17:05:27","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T22:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=2522"},"modified":"2015-12-17T17:09:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T22:09:41","slug":"bubble-tip-anemone-that-lives-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/2015\/12\/17\/bubble-tip-anemone-that-lives-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Bubble-tip Anemone That Lives On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago I wrote about the first <a href=\"\/2014\/01\/07\/my-first-bubble-tip-anemone\/\" title=\"My First Bubble Tip Anemone\">bubble-tip anemone<\/a> that I have ever owned.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_2521\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Entacmaea-quadricolor.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2521\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2521\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Entacmaea-quadricolor.jpg\" alt=\"Entacmaea quadricolor.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2521\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Entacmaea-quadricolor.jpg 1200w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Entacmaea-quadricolor-300x158.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Entacmaea-quadricolor-768x403.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Entacmaea-quadricolor-1024x538.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2521\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I was told that this was a piece of my first bubble tip anemone (<em>Entacmaea quadricolor<\/em>). The animal keeps splitting in other people&#8217;s tanks. Since it has a lovely color, pieces of it can be sold at a good price.<br \/>\nThis picture was taken at a <a href=\"http:\/\/mastcanada.org\/\" title=\"Marine Aquarium Society of Toronto\" target=\"_blank\">Marine Aquarium Society of Toronto<\/a> auction.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>I have already posed the philosophical question if an animal is truly dead if pieces of it go on living. While I have lost the anemone some time ago, several copies of it live in other people&#8217;s tanks and they occasionally surface at auctions.<\/p>\n<p>It was one piece allegedly split from another bubble tip anemone that I have sold some years ago.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"further-readings-title\">Further Readings:<\/h4>\n<div class=\"further-readings\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bubble-tip_anemone\" title=\"Bubble-tip anemone\" target=\"_blank\">Bubble-tip anemone<\/a> on Wikipedia.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.advancedaquarist.com\/2010\/6\/inverts\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Aquarium Invertebrates: Entacmaea quadricolor: The Bubble-Tip Anemone \u2014 Advanced Aquarist | Aquarist Magazine and Blog\">Aquarium Invertebrates: <em>Entacmaea quadricolor<\/em>: The Bubble-Tip Anemone<\/a> \u2014 Advanced Aquarist.<br \/>\n\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago I wrote about the first bubble-tip anemone that I have ever owned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[65,12,30,18,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}