my anemone died... i think...

[flipteg]

a couple of weeks ago, my BTA anemone started walking up close my corals so i had to peel it off the rock... for a couple of weeks after that, the anemone did not look too good... it looked like it was dying... i did not take it out because it was still holding together and not fouling the water... it started recovering and started fluffing back up again... and then, yesturday, i noticed that it was gone from its usual place... i found it just a couple of inches from my powerhead intake and one half of it is all torn up... i was gonna leave it there but today, it started falling apart... all the insides were coming out and floating away... the water was starting to become cloudy... so i decided to take it out of the tank since i thought it was dead... my question is, is it really dead...? or could it have recovered again...?

 

[Sk8r]

You did the right thing. When they start going like that, they can do bad things to the chemistry of the whole tank, and having still-functional stinging cells floating about is not good. "Dead" is a hard definition for a creature that is somewhat a colony, but clearly its organization has broken down bigtime, and it will only get worse.

 

[dzovi]

Sounds like you did the right thing with the anemone being dead. Before you buy another you might want to figure out why your anemone wasnââ"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢t doing well.

 

[arson420]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6855423#post6855423 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by dzovi
Sounds like you did the right thing with the anemone being dead. Before you buy another you might want to figure out why your anemone wasnââ"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢t doing well.

Well, it wasn't doing well because he peeled the foot off of the rock which is something your never supposed to do. Once the foot is damaged on an anemone then it's doomed. Peeling it off of the rock is like the #1 thing your not supposed to do with an anemone.

 

[flipteg]

i know i wasn't supposed to do it but it's either that or the other corals... and as i said, it was recovering from that injured foot when it started walking again and got sucked up the powerhead...

 

[arson420]

Was it on the same rock as the corals? What kind of corals were they? I wonder what would happen if the anemone did come in contact with the corals, do you think the corals would have died?

I have already devised a plan if my anemone starts going somewhere I don't want it to. I am going to basically create an environment that it doesn't want to be in to force it to move. Most likely I will just point a powerhead at it so it won't like the flow that it's getting. It should move after that.

 

[Cuban Hogfish]

not necesarilly.i tried to move one of my anemones pointing the power head to it (for 3 days) didnt even cared...lol...

 

[steelhead77]

not necesarilly.i tried to move one of my anemones pointing the power head to it (for 3 days) didnt even cared...lol...

I agree. Anemones are fickle. Some like heavy flow, some like light flow.

If it is between moving corals or tearing an anemone off a rock, IMHO, you should always move the corals or remove the rock.