To Kill An Anemone...

[mdcorcoran]

ok y'all

i have a large curlycue anemone that i bought when i first started my tank way back when. i only bought it because i could afford it and was excited to get some inverts. now, the curlycue occupies about half of my 20 gallon tank, living in a cave of a rock covered with clams, feather dusters, and coraline algae. the fish avoid that side of the tank and other corals are often stung by his long ugly tentacles. i want to remove him from the tank, but i am not sure how to go about this.

i used to give him haircuts, cutting off tentacles so that they wouldn't reach the corals. they grow back rather quickly.
i'd like to just pull him out, but he has a good grasp of the rock.

so now the questions

if i choose to mutilate him in the tank, will his secretions become other curly Qs, or damage the water quality? (this is my last choice)

if i take the rock out of the tank, how long will the coraline algae survive?
does anyone know a good way go get a grip of his trunk and dislodge him from the cave?

waaaa

any suggestions?

mc

[squid]

We used to take the rock out of the tank...place it on the edge of the tank and wait for the anemonie to drop back in the water. Turn your lights off first so you don't cook him. Sometimes it took about a half hour, but they did let go and get back in the water.

[Geoff]

this is also my suggestion. they shrink up when they get PO'd they will eventually let go. you will then be able to easily put it in a bag and give it back tho the LFS.

hair cuts huh. some people just can not keep these things and then you hear of someone who just can't seem to hurt them.

G~

[mnreefgeek]

Could you stick a powerhead directly in front of it and wait for it to get PO'd and just move? No real work on your part there.

[Geoff]

sounds like a great idea! if it were my tank it would be my luck that it would actually like the current.

G~

[mdcorcoran]

mr.squid's suggestion worked quite well

i took out the LR the anemone was in and wedged it on the corner of my 10g emergency tank, with the anem's tentacles dangling in the water, then plop!

i am suprised people have trouble keeping anemones. this curly cue i had was easily the hardiest thing in the tank and about 12 little ones had popped up on another piece of live rock. too bad the suck so much..


mc

[Jimmer]

MD, sounds like you have a Condilited (sp??) type anemone. I have found they are really easy to keep alive and as you have discovered tend to really stretch out all over the tank.

Hey I'm just outside Milwaukee!! Glad to see theres another WI poster here. Now its Me(Waukesha), Buehlz(sheboygan), Homer(sheboygan), and Mayor(mukwonago). I think theres someones else from Middleton but I fogot his name....

Where do you shop for your stuff? Is there a LFS you like to go to? I'm always on the lookout for new places to go to on my "fishing" expeditions.

[Mrs Smith]

Originally posted by mdcorcoran
mr.squid's suggestion worked quite well

That would be Ms. Squid...






We BRW gots to stick together...

[squid]

GREAT...I'm glad it did the trick for you....

And yes..it's ms. squid aka, Lise (pronounced Lisa)