Green Carpet Suicide

The past two days I have noticed that my 10 inch Lime Green Carpet Anemone has been walking its way up the glass of my tank. Well overnight I guess he decided he was going to hang out near the Tunze 1605 that was near the top of the tank on the side panel glass. Not good for him because I woke up to it being sucked into the backside of the pump. I pulled him out the best I could but a small piece of him ripped off and it does not look like hes doing to good right now. Is there anything I should do to try saving the guy?
 
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I would first of dip him in some seachem coral disinfectant.

Then leave it be, it moved cause its not very happy with something in the tank.

I would also suggest covering your pumps or not keeping anemone, anytime you have exposed pumps its like blender waiting to happen.
 
I have had him for about a month and he was doing great. I did keep noticing peppermint shrimp always by him and I think they may have bugged him. I don't think he was starving for light since I am running Kessil A360W's on full power and its not a flow issue either.
 
I can only speak from my personal experience but I know that my green Haddoni was never super happy under Led's. I switched back to T-5's and he seems much happier already. He also does not like high phosphates or nitrates at all.
 
peppermints can pick on anemones. Its could be your problem. I def suggest dipping it and then let it be and see if it makes it. Either way find a solution for your pumps cause thats a constant reality with anemones.
 
Was it a Haddoni? (green carpet nem doesn't say anything to what it actually is)

I will assume it was.....

When you say flow is not an issue, can you quantify that? Haddoni's do not like much flow. If you are running a full SPS tank with a Haddoni blasted by flow, it's not surprising it took a walk looking for lower flow.

Haddoni's are also a sand-dwelling anemone. It causes me to raise my eyebrows a little to hear it was walking all over your glass. Something wasn't right.

Can you please show a picture of your tank with the anemone? The color "lime green" could really go either way. A good healthy green haddoni could be described as lime green as a way to portray vivid colors, or a bleached out green haddoni could be described as lime green as a way to get across the lightish green tint it has. An image would help clear this up greatly.

You also said light is not an issue. Did you light acclimate the anemone? Haddoni's don't necessarily need the full blasting light that other anemones do. That might cause it to walk around.

Do you have sand in your tank? If not, the nem may have finally gotten fed up with it's situation and went looking for sand.

If you do not have a Haddoni, the above questions may not be quite on point, sorry.

In general, if you ever have an anemone sucked into a powerhead, don't pull it out. It'll usually get itself out. Turn the pump off and let it sit for a long time.
 
Blues0022,

I paniced when i saw it in the meat grinder and pulled it out. After I did I realized I should have just left it alone and unplugged the pump, too late now. As of this morning the anemone completely turned to mush and is dead. He was a Haddoni. The spot he was been in for the last month was in the far left side of the tank in the back next to one of the overflow boxes. The sand was around 5 inches deep where it has had its foot buried for the past month. I am running two Tunze 1605's in the tank for flow and I also have two Eheim 1262 pumps for return pumps from the sump. This section of the tank does not have a blast of current since it is in the corner. Here is a bad picture but it is all the way in the back on the far left of the tank. lesson learned on this one.
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A friend of mine made some boxes out of black eggcrate (never seen black myself, so not sure where he got it from) to mount around his Vortech power-heads. Seems like a good functional solution, even if it ended up being ugly as hell.
 
Blues0022,

I paniced when i saw it in the meat grinder and pulled it out. After I did I realized I should have just left it alone and unplugged the pump, too late now. As of this morning the anemone completely turned to mush and is dead. He was a Haddoni. The spot he was been in for the last month was in the far left side of the tank in the back next to one of the overflow boxes. The sand was around 5 inches deep where it has had its foot buried for the past month. I am running two Tunze 1605's in the tank for flow and I also have two Eheim 1262 pumps for return pumps from the sump. This section of the tank does not have a blast of current since it is in the corner. Here is a bad picture but it is all the way in the back on the far left of the tank. lesson learned on this one.
carpet.jpg

I think you need a bigger tank.
 
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