Carpet help - wedged in powerhead

[Andrew D]

Hi, I picked up a blue medium sized carpet a couple of weeks back, and it's been wandering around the tank looking for a good spot. I just found it alongside the koralia powerhead, with some of it wedged inside. I quickly turned off the powerhead and tried to disentangle, but it was pretty well stuck. I can't find the camera to take a picture, but I'm wondering if there's anything else I can do, and how worried I need to be about the rest of the tank's inhabitants. It is alone in a 56G that is connected to my 700G system, so although I have a lot of water volume in case it spoils I also have a lot of valuable life in it I don't want to risk.

Any insight and experience would be greatly appreciated. thanks, Andrew

 

[OrionN]

Open the PH and leave him be. He will wiggle out himself.

 

[Andrew D]

Thanks, but what do you mean by ph? If you're talking about acidity/alkalinity, then how do I do that? I'm not running a calcium reactor or kalk, would I just dose locally?

 

[juniorrocketdad]

I think he means open the power head like take the front piece off so it is easiest for him to get out

 

[OrionN]

Undo the Power Head as much as you can and let him untangle himself.

 

[asudavew]

What Minh said.


You will likely to more damage trying to untangle it.

 

[Andrew D]

duh, feel dumb, lack of sleep as you can see from my two posts. Thanks for the advice, will try to do that without damaging the carpet.

 

[kegogut]

If you can't get the front off just leave it and he'll get himself out of it.

 

[OrionN]

Keep us updated. Picture if you can. If your anemone is healthy to begin with, he should tolerate this mishap without problem. Best of luck

 

[Andrew D]

Thanks everyone, for your interest and help. I tried to open the powerhead but couldn't without hurting the nem, so I ended up dimming the light and waiting him out. Within the day he had freed himself from the powerhead and I thought I was home free. He looked OK, but this afternoon when I returned home from work I saw that he hadn't moved but shrunk another 50%, so he was probably about 25% of his original size when opened. I've included some pictures below. He looks all shrivelled up with some stringy stuff hanging from his base, but when I took a picture from the other side from the top of the tank (it's against a wall and difficult to see from the other side) he kinda looks OK. Not sure how long it takes him to recover.










On a related matter, this all happened about a day after I fed him for the first time, about 1/4 of a small shrimp. Not sure if that caused it, if it was the light that was too strong (possible), if he liked the additional flow from the powerhead, or just felt like scaring me. The purchase was a bit of an impulse, something I'd always wanted to have but hadn't planned to buy yet except that I got him for a great deal. You'd save me some research by telling me how much I should feed him given his normal size of about 8 inches when open.

Thanks again everyone.

 

[daveM100]

Ouch looks like a nice tear. Should probably qt and medicate.

 

[Andrew D]

Thanks Dave. Help me out though, as I'm new to carpet's, where's the tear, in the bottom left or near the mouth? Also, what sort of medication woudl you use, in what amount and for how long?

 

[OrionN]

He looks OK. I would leave him be. Haddoni like a sand bed so you may want to add sand into your tank.

 

[OrionN]

I guess there is a sand bed

 

[daveM100]

Well Orion knows more then I do, but if he doesn't get better your going to have to more then likely medicate, I'd read up on it just in case.