anemone vs. powerhead
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Topic: anemone vs. powerhead
Posted By: djangoboots
Subject: anemone vs. powerhead
Date Posted: January 22 2004 at 9:16am
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I feel sick I am so upset with what I discovered this morning. My new
beautiful, big, green, BTA that I was so excited about was discovered this morning sucked into the intake of my powerhead. WHY!!!! I am really starting to think there is a curse on my tank. I need to find a shaman or someone to bless it or something. Now my tank is all cloudy and my protein skimmer is doing nothing about it. I am going to go cry some more...  ------------- 125g whannabe reef 30g FW w/puffers |
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Posted By: Carl
Date Posted: January 22 2004 at 9:29am
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My condolences! That absolutely sucks! Hopefully everything else will be ok. ------------- In Syracuse "I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting." - Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf |
Posted By: Connie
Date Posted: January 22 2004 at 9:57am
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Posted By: Adam Blundell
Date Posted: January 22 2004 at 11:36am
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If it makes you feel better my carpet anemone has been sucked up twice. I had a filter on the powerhead, but he still got in there, so I put a sponge filter over that. Then it was like he pulled the sponge off on purpose just so he could get sucked in again. It more or less tore him in half. Then he healed up, grew back, and ate my Moorish Idol, so don't feel to bad. Adam ------------- Come to a meeting, they�re fun! |
Posted By: djangoboots
Date Posted: January 22 2004 at 12:46pm
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I thought about removing it from the intake and seeing if it would
live. But it has already polluted my tank so much I figured not to put it back in there. It is now sitting in my sink drying out so I can get it of the darn powerhead.  ------------- 125g whannabe reef 30g FW w/puffers |
Posted By: Trevah
Date Posted: January 22 2004 at 3:21pm
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well...i am a little embarassed that this happened to me as well 5 days ago....i had a filter over the intake of the powehead but somehow it must have covered it enough as i found small pieces of him in my substrate . one thing i noticed was a small piece of him that appears to still be alive as it has inflated and moved several times within the past 2-3 days...is it possible for a piece of his foot to regrow into a full anemone?
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Posted By: ewaldsreef
Date Posted: January 22 2004 at 9:55pm
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Trevah, I dont think that a foot will grow back into an anemone. At least not in my experance.
djangoboots, you have been having alot of bad luck lately havent you? I am sorry to hear that. Just dont give up. Maybe we can do an exersism on your tank. ------------- Contact me for professional aquarium maintenance and localy grown coral frags. [URL=http://www.aquatitranquility.com][/URL] |
Posted By: Danny Lueck
Date Posted: January 22 2004 at 11:46pm
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Ok same thing happened to my $150.00 RoseTip .....It looked all but dead...I mean like jelly.....anyway it fully recovered and thats exactly why I use a Closed LOOP now...just a foot no but a foot and a mouth yes it should survive! mine recovered almost fully in 1 1/2 months. unreal how fast they regenerate ------------- "Ask not what your REEF TANK can do for you!!" [email protected] |
Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: January 23 2004 at 1:00am
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It's better to clean it out while still wet. When it dries it sticks on like glue and then dissolves into the water when the powerhead is put back in the tank. I'm very sorry that I didn't mention the risk when you called and told me it was hopping around the tank. (releasing and quickly reattaching)
There's a gold mine of information in my head. They call it the "Lost Dutchman" 
(which btw has nothing to do with WMAS Member Dutchdude here on the forum) ------------- Reefkeeping Tips, & quick, easy setup tricks: www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9244 Pay it forward - become a paid WMAS member 
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Posted By: djangoboots
Date Posted: January 23 2004 at 9:54am
Funny you should say that>>I posted this on the Charleston Reefers forum and I got a response from a shamen in Santa Barbra who wrote that he said a prayer for my tank. Also that it probably was not cursed unless I used some sort of rocks from a ancient burial ground in my tank....Wew, I feel better already. Wait a minute, does an ancient coral burial ground count??? It's those darn rocks!!!
sorry, i just had to make myself laugh. Now i am going to go get those little foamy covers for my powerheads. ------------- 125g whannabe reef 30g FW w/puffers |
pistonfister wrote:Posted By: Trevah
Date Posted: February 24 2004 at 5:46pm
| well guys 2 of the pieces (about 3-4mm in diameter) that were left over from the shredding of my anemone have regenerated and have started growing tentacles!!! They are "micro" sized but they definitely have a foot, mouth, and tentacles...if i remember to take my camera to work tomorrow i will take pictures... |
Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: February 25 2004 at 6:40am
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Will someone take the risk and please start cutting and propagating anemones? ------------- Reefkeeping Tips, & quick, easy setup tricks: www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9244 Pay it forward - become a paid WMAS member
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Posted By: Meeshi_ma
Date Posted: February 25 2004 at 6:57am
It sounds like we can just run a few through powerheads! 
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Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: February 25 2004 at 6:59am
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Posted By: Adam Blundell
Date Posted: February 25 2004 at 12:49pm
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Mark, wouldn't it be better for us to promote the idea of high light, high feeding, and encouraging people to have their anemones split? That would sound like better advice to me then tearing them apart. Adam ------------- Come to a meeting, they�re fun! |
Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: February 25 2004 at 3:12pm
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You aren't afraid of propagating are you?
Remember the Sacketts...they were cutting and propagating the cold water anemones they got in Oregon!  ------------- Reefkeeping Tips, & quick, easy setup tricks: www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9244 Pay it forward - become a paid WMAS member
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Posted By: Ryan Willden
Date Posted: February 25 2004 at 3:28pm
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I'm with Adam on this one... If I had a $150 anemone, I wouldn't come within 5 feet of it with a knife...
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Posted By: Adam Blundell
Date Posted: February 25 2004 at 3:37pm
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Yes Mark and where are the Sacketts now? But I still wouldn't advocate anemone splitting to the general hobbyist population. Adam ------------- Come to a meeting, they�re fun! |
Posted By: Danny Lueck
Date Posted: February 25 2004 at 7:06pm
you know how they put rubber bands around dogs tails so they fall off? What about doing something like that and force the issue of splitting (good old Fishing line)  ------------- "Ask not what your REEF TANK can do for you!!" [email protected] |
Posted By: Meeshi_ma
Date Posted: February 25 2004 at 7:44pm
| I did that on accident to my first xenia! Of course, they're a lot different than anemones... |
Posted By: Trevah
Date Posted: February 25 2004 at 8:38pm
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well forgot my cam but took a few photos with my phone...i'll try to get better ones tomorrow..
it's the little thing above the lower middle pink (coralline dot) it is partially closed ...you can kind of make out the mouth in the pic and tentacles... 
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