And into the powerhead we go

[hansonfam]

And yes they were covered Somehow it is stuck all the way around the plastic mesh that is around the power head. It is a seio that pushes 2600 gallons per hour.

We did some rock rearranging on the weekend and my beautiful purple lta got mad and uprooted himself aster a 10 months in the same spot. So i put him back and he looked like he attached so last night went to bed. We'll sure enough there is my husband waking me up saying your anemone is in the power head. It is now off and he is slowly backing out of it. The famale clown looks like she got hurt in the mix. No lacerations or anything but her tail seems to want to stay bent over? Not sure what is up with that. Now do i start doing water changes now? As i am trying to make new water as there was a water change done last night after the rocks being moved around. The nem is not dead. YET" Just don't know where to start as for the life of me i can not remeber what everybody has said in these posts. Maybe cause it is to early and i am really a little stressed that i really loved that nem....

Thanks
Lisa

 

[hansonfam]

Okay we'll. It is slowly backing out of the power head. His foot looks okay so far although he is only half way out. I did a 15 gallon water change with the water i had. All hte fish look okay and the clown that looked hurt is perfectly fine now. Although she looks very stressed that she can't see the top of her home
I am thinking of moving the nem to a hospital tank when it pulls itself out. Good or bad idea? It is a 15 gallon nano. But will the move from the main tank to the little tank just doom it? I just don't want it to wipe out my whole main tank when i am at work.

Lisa

 

[davocean]

As long as the foot isn't damaged it may be OK.
I've seen some pretty chewed up nems pull through.
I'd leave it in main tank, but cover or block PH's better.
I've used rock to block them.
I'm not familiar w/ seio's, but the best intake cover for me was the hagen quick clips.

 

[Toddrtrex]

About a month ago (maybe 2) the same thing happened to me (was a seio 1100)

This is what I came home to (and a stink from hell)

After about 5 hours I put it back into the tank (pulled the PLTA and seio out of the tank, and put them in a bucket of tank water. I did "help" the LTA out of the PH a little bit)

This is a picture from last night.

 

[davocean]

Todd, I was just coming back to this one to show a ray of hope!
Beat me to it.LOL

 

[Toddrtrex]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9572230#post9572230 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by davocean
Todd, I was just coming back to this one to show a ray of hope!
Beat me to it.LOL

Would you stop following me.

 

[Toddrtrex]

Oh and I found one more picture of when it was really sucked into it. I think this was taken right when I got home. In fact I think the PH was still on at this point. (( and if it was, what was I thinking, should have unplugged it, and THAN take the picture. ))

 

[hansonfam]

Okay good. I feel so much betterIt did look like this last pic. Now it looks like the first pic...
I have to keep getting the clowns away from it. But it is slowly coming out and there are lot's of tentacles that are still inflated. Doesn't look like it took alot of them.
I will leave him in hte main tank then. Just need to find him somewhere. And apparently come up with a better way to cover the powerheads.

Lisa

 

[Toddrtrex]

Yea, my clowns still tried to hang out in it. But, lucky enough they aren't to hard on it in general.

The reason mine let go was (as I found out later) there was an old razor blade that I guess I dropped in the sandbed, right near where the LTA was, I think it shifted a tiny amount and ran into it.

 

[hansonfam]

Okay we'll so far so good. This is what he used to look like:

And this what he looks like now

Although better than what i thought this morning. No damage to the foot or oral disk. I propped him up with some rock out of my daughters nano and he has attached again. I put him where there was some good flow to keep him clean. And now i will just hope for no infection. The bigger tentacles are still sticky so i am hoping that is a good thing. So now what do i cover that power head with? Apparently the crafters plastic stuff didn't cut it. Although i think it cut down on the amount of damage it had.

Ideas?
Lisa

 

[cowboyswife]

The same thing happened to my husband's anemone, and the next day it happened to mine. The day after that, my nem was stuck in my overflow, went through the pipe and I had to fish him out of my filter sock. 3 days later, they were both fine.

 

[rppvt]

I've had two rbtas sucked into the inlets of my closed loops. They had to crawl around massive rock in order to commit suicide like that. I'm convinced they're lemmings.

 

[Big Brother]

I had an awesome green purple tipped bulb anemone that was so emo it tried to kill itself 3 times... and eventually suceeded.

sad day...