Houdini the Condi anemone

[Ikaria]

This is the story about a Condi anemone named Houdini.

After about a month of footing it around my tank, Houdini finally decides to settle down in front of the tank overflow.... or so I thought.

Now keep in mind that Houdini is at least half again the size of a softball.

Last night, Houdini decides that he would like to visit the sump. So.... He slips through one of the slots (about 2" x 1/8") in the middle of the overflow, went up and over the weir, wriggled through one of the the openings on the durso stand pipe, slid down through the drain line, and curled up around the intake of my protein skimmer pump, where he tickled the insides of the needle wheel.

I don't know how long he was down there, because I leave at 5 am, and my wife said she didn't see him when she got up. But I figure at least 14 hours.

When I got him out, he sure was ragged looking. I thought for sure he was a goner. However, he has re-inflated, and is looking not much the worse for wear.

I was curious if something like this has ever happened to anyone else.

 

[Lageo04]

And I was worried that mine might start moving around the tank.
Houdini has been watching Nemo to long. All pipes lead to the ocean.

 

[ReefNeck]

My huge LTA decide to go walking recently. Or I should say....parasailing. He's just float right up off the sand even when I had him surrounded by rock. Went out yesterday for about 6 hours and came home, Found him stuck to the side of one of my SEIO m820's.

I paniced. I could not pull him off of it and his tenicles were deep inside the intake. I unplugged the SEIO and still had to pull hard to get him off.

I have him settled now in a new place and he seems to have taken the shredding well. He's looking fine except for half his tenticles are shredded. The clown pair went right back to him too.

Lucky!

 

[s10willy]

I had my 6" RBTA get sucked into the intake of my Seio 1500 a couple of months ago. It was so bad that I had to take the pump apart and push the anemone out from the inside of the pump. I also thought it was a goner. Looks good now, but it is only about 3 1/2" across and stays low in the tank, well away from the intakes.

 

[Ikaria]

I guess anemone's truly are unpredictable. With no power heads in the display, who'd have thought that he'd get into trouble?

I have the overflow covered with plastic canvas so nothing could go over the spillway. I still can't believe it.

The Condi is fully inflated today, and on the other side of the tank, under a return jet. So maybe he'll stay put!

Now if I could just train the aptasia in the 50 to jump out of the tank!

 

[s10willy]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7159336#post7159336 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Ikaria
Now if I could just train the aptasia in the 50 to jump out of the tank!

Now THAT would be a neat trick!

 

[LadyReefNeck]

Well ReefneckWidow's Anenome Catching Service may soon be in business, but the service fees may be high! :lol:

I spent most of the day yesterday chasing down hubby's LTA (at least 25 times). It just would not sit still! It parasailed around the tank about every 20 minutes all afternoon. I was almost to the point of anchoring it in place with a large rock right on top of it.:mad2: It finally decided to stay put about the time he got home. The fact that we discovered 1 of the powerheads had been left unplugged for 2 days in the anemone's corner of the tank may have had something to do with it roaming, as it seems content at the moment.

 

[Bennihanna]

LTA's are very sensative to low O2. The powerhead may vary well be the problem.