BTA vs MJ1200

[Kiel'thalin]

Guess who won that battle. I left the house and returned an hour later to a very cloudy tank. It seemed like my skimmer collected most of the debris out of the tank. I went ahead and did a 20% water change, siphoned up the pieces, and added carbon. Within the next hour the tank was clear. He just wasn't stuck to the intake, I would say a majority of it was chopped up by the propellor. He was doing so good, eating a piece of silverside once a week for the past 4 weeks. He just decided to move around on me after I rearranged the tank and added more waterflow. When the lights where on he was fine, as soon as they turned off he would start moving again. This last move he was either blown by the current off the rock, or he just let go. The frustration continues...

 

[TheVillageIdiot]

How was your rock formation set up? Did you have rock touching any of the four walls of the tank or the overflow?

sorry to hear about this.

 

[Kiel'thalin]

There are only two points where the rocks touch the back glass. He didn't climb up to the powerhead, he just let go of the rock. I made some changes, a week ago I removed my ssb, dramatically increased my waterflow in the tank, and was in the process of increasing my light period. He was in my quarantine tank with a longer period of light, but as soon as I let him settle in the 1st day in the main tank, I fed him a piece of silverside after the lights went ou. He still wan't happy and was constantly moving during that night. Yesterday was the second day back in the main tank and that is when he was chopped up. Very frustrating.

 

[TheVillageIdiot]

ah, that is annoying, he "floated" right up to it... :-(

 

[Kiel'thalin]

Amazingly the BTA is still alive. I had him in a 1 gallon bucket sitting outside overnight and he managed to free himself from the powerhead. He doesn't look pretty, his mouth is gaping, most of his tentacles are severely damaged, and has lost all of his zooxanthellae (bleached). I will see if he can make a recovery, but it looks pretty grim.

 

[pfan151]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8272959#post8272959 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Kiel'thalin
Amazingly the BTA is still alive. I had him in a 1 gallon bucket sitting outside overnight and he managed to free himself from the powerhead. He doesn't look pretty, his mouth is gaping, most of his tentacles are severely damaged, and has lost all of his zooxanthellae (bleached). I will see if he can make a recovery, but it looks pretty grim.

You would be suprised. BTA are pretty tough. If your BTA was healthy before the powerhead problem I think it has a pretty good shot. Could you post a pic?

 

[Raibaru]

I don't have an anemone but I see several of these types of posts a week. I'm curious if you had one of the MJ attachments on the bottom of the powerhead intake? Or did the anemone some how remove them? Or do they just get sucked right into it?

 

[herpchat]

I had an incident with a penguin powerhead. I put the intake in a sponge filter so it could not get hurt that way but there is a tiny hole that you can put an airline in to "airate" the water and that is where my anemone got caught when she went for a swim. It only damaged her slightly and she did not loose her zooxanthellae but I am still worried about her. For a while I thought she was gonna split because her base was so large after the incident but now she is totally hunkered down.

 

[Kiel'thalin]

The majority of him was sucked through the intake cover. He started to melt away yesterday, so I disposed of him. This is just another frustrating moment in my SW experience. I won't be adding another anemone to any of my tanks.