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    Posted: September 06 2007 at 8:52pm
I am a little concerned as one of my Condy Anenomes decided to "relocate" it's big jellied butt right onto a nice flat piece of LR that I was reserving for my growing frag collection and my baby clams.
 
Anyway, the big goon was waving it's tentacles all around in the current and I noticed that it was occasionally contacting both of my baby Deresa clams and my 2-head Candycane frag... the clams reacted by not opening fully - I figured the anenome is probably annoying them and maybe its tentacles were irritating the mantle (somewhat). Angry
 
My Candycane showed no effects yesterday - but today it looks somewhat "shriveled" (for lack of a better expression) and had no polyp extension. I relocated the frag away from the anenome but my concern is that maybe the anenomes "sting" is powerful enough to do real damage on a coral that small...
 
Anyone have an opinion?
 
P.S. - I am in the process of fabricating an anenome "collar" to keep Mr. Condy from extending said tentacles towards the clams (which I can't really move) until Mr. Condy gets the hint that he needs to move his butt to a less crowded locale Wink
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As long as there is flesh on the candy canes they will come back.  I have had mine recede all the way into their skeleton and they have made a full recovery.
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Ah yes, the joys of housing an anemone. I agree with Gahlen and yes it does have a powerfull enough sting to do real damage over time. It is a good thing you moved the Candycane.
 
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24 hours since I moved it and 1 head looks back to normal, the other still a bit "shriveled" but I think it will be OK, too Smile
 
I took an old tupperware square 'bowl' and fabricated kind of a divider so the anemone tentacles can't sway over to where the baby clams are -
 
and they have started to open back up fully, too
 
Once the anemone relocates I'll just remove the tupperware thingy...
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