A SAD SAD STORY

[lakersfreak]

I came home from work today and noticed something strange in my tank. the water was very very cloudy. I stood around for a couple of seconds until I saw my sea anemone being sucked in by my canister filter. Peace by peace it was getting sucked in then blown out the other end. It was disgusting. Even worse, 2 of my fish have died today because of this. Can you believe it????

[Feron]

Dude, that sucks..
Bout the only thing I can offer besides condolences is the advice of use of some sorta foam protector for the intake...
Unisghtly and maybe not effective (not sure..havnt had the problem...yet...)

[hackteck]

sorry to hear that

[philly]

my huge LTA anemone got stuck on my filter intake. i turned off filter and surrounded my anemone with LR to stop it from moving back to the filter.

sorry to hear that. what fish died?

[Brenden]

Anemone are always a risk for that reason. Is the anemone dead or did just some of the tentacles get pulled in?

[Civicman86]

I know the feeling. I had a small Clown get sucked into the intake. Just use a strainer on all the intakes. I will never make that mistake again, I still feel bad to this day.

[lakersfreak]

Actually all of the anemone got sucked in.
I had a molly fish who died (was the first fish I had) and a firefish who was friends with a pistol shrimp, who know is all alone.
Im so pissed off.

[MT79]

At this point I would run GAC and replace it every 3-5 days, do a few PWC's (20-35%) a couple days apart along w/ testing daily for ammonia, nitrites, PH, etc. It is important to take the proper precautions regarding equipment before purchasing an anemone, along w/ being aware of the inevitable risk of it wandering. Best of luck.

[tcarola154]

Sorry for your loss... i love anemones...

out of curiousity, is there any way to completely avoid this? Like, will they not get sucked up in a "reef ready" tank?

[Civicman86]

Originally Posted by tcarola154

Sorry for your loss... i love anemones...

out of curiousity, is there any way to completely avoid this? Like, will they not get sucked up in a "reef ready" tank?

Keep strainers on the end of everything that can potentially suck it up.

[ColdFish]

I had a similar experience with a condylactis anemone. I actually added 2 of them to my tank at the same time on the hopes that my clowns would maybe host them. They were both really small and I only payed about $3 each for them at Petco. One of the condys picked out a spot he liked in the tank and never travelled. I've had him now for about 6 months and he's grown so much that he looks huge when he's all inflated. The other one never could seem to find a spot he was comfortable with and eventually met up with the intake of my canister filter. Not sure why one was a traveller and the other not. Didn't have any luck with the clowns hosting the remaining one, but now I really like him. He's turned brown and glows a nice green under the actinics. Would really suck to lose him. Sorry for your loss

[melosu58]

Sorry about loss

[revhtree]

Ya sorry about the loss....