Haddoni Carpet Anemone Removal

[ikatobiko]

Does anyone know how to remove a large Carpet? I am concerned that I may disturb my sandbed or injure the anemone.

Will shading the area over the carbet coax it out of the sand and onto a rock that can then be removed with the anemone?

 

[ikatobiko]

bump

 

[rkelman]

point a powerhead at it is one way.. Kinda hard with a sand bed though. I would think the flow even if it wasn't blowing on it real hard would annoy it enough to move...

 

[maww]

I don't think you have much choice but to disturb the sandbed. If you slide your fingers into the sand along the column of the anemone until you hit the bottom glass and then gently pry the anemone loose( don't worry about removing all the sand away from the base of the nem), you shouldn't disturb the sand too much.

 

[rkelman]

I agree with Maww. I had to move mine today to a bucket so I could put a new large base rock in. (cured) I just gently worked at him and he came loose. I used a little force but not alot. I had an atlantic that I basically had to manhandle / scrape / poke it off a rock with a butter knife and it didn't hurt it at all. It took me 2 hours to get that badboy out. The powerhead method didn't work with him. I was surprised it didn't even hurt it at all. (I was carefull but after 2 hours I was about to cut it off with butcher knife) My haddoni is pretty easy to get to let go..

 

[fantastic4]

Last night I moved my carpet from baserock successfully. Tried the icecube method, that did nothing and kept slipping out of my hands. Then I tried the slowly peel a corner loose and work your way slowly from there, this worked. Took me a 1/2 hour, used latex gloves as I'm to chicken to get stung, but he was removed by slow peel. Had to work at finding a corner that would up-lift for a long time, stuck my finger directly down the center middle between the baserock and bottom base of anenome, then slowly worked the anenome off, he kept re-attaching as fast as I would get a piece off. The peel method does work, just go very slow and be patient so you do not tear the membrane.

 

[55semireef]

Why did you want to move your Carpet?

 

[ikatobiko]

Thanks for all the replies.

Actually I have a 300 gallon tank that is 30 inches high, so removal by using my hands is impossible. I am thinking of making/buying a three sided tunnel out of plastic to shade the area. The tunnel will have one end sealed and the other open, with no bottom.

I could then place the tunnel over the carpet and shade it such that it will move onto a rock in front of the open end of the tunnel. Will this work with a carpet ?

I want to get rid of the carpet. It just ate a new Blue Jaw trigger I got and it precludes getting one of my favorite fish, a mandarin.

Any other removal ideas would be appreciated.