New long tenticle wont attach

[WGardiner]

I got a lta from DD Friday, floated it for 20 minutes and drip acclimated for an hour, put it in the tank, put screens to block the light and then had to go out of town for the night. The anemone when I got home was by the overflow box(not sucked into it just by it). So last night I dug a hole and put it in there and turned off the power heads. This morning it was in the same spot so I turned the power heads back on and it got blown around the tank and ended up behind some rocks. Now for the question. How long should I leave the power heads off so it will atleast attach to something? The mouth is closed up and not gapping it did eat last night also. I don't see any damage to the foot either.

Thanks,
Will

 

[katarina]

I have a smaller tank but I had to remove the powerhead. Just the return for the sump gives enough current for everything that I have. Until I removed the powerhead my LTA blew all over the place and almost got chopped by the powerhead as well.

 

[WGardiner]

Thanks Katarina

 

[Meggie2409]

If you have some spare small live rock you can also build it a little brim to keep it from rolling around. I have seen it on here that it works a lot.

 

[WGardiner]

I did some searching and I'm trying using a plastic contain with the bottom cut out, place it in the sand, removed the sand from inside the container and placed the anemone inside. About how long might it take for it to attach?

 

[katarina]

I don't know. I dug a pretty big hole under the edge of a rock and put my anemone into that. It took a couple of hours for it to decide it liked it there. It was pretty restless at first so I moved my rockwork around until I noticed it moving around less. It seemed to like broken current. I used different sized rocks around it with holes here and there so that it could move it's oral disk around and have as much or as little current as it liked.

 

[2Addicted]

Dont shut off your powerheads. It starves the water for oxygen and if the anemone attatched it would probobly let go once you turned the powerheads back on. Try the rock berrier.

 

[WGardiner]

Ok will do. Thanks all

 

[djmurray]

Dont shut off your powerheads. It starves the water for oxygen and if the anemone attatched it would probobly let go once you turned the powerheads back on. Try the rock berrier.

One day with the powerheads off will very unlikely starve the water of oxygen, special due to the return pump skimmer etc being on.

But i do agree the rock barrier works well!

 

[2Addicted]

One day with the powerheads off will very unlikely starve the water of oxygen, special due to the return pump skimmer etc being on.

But i do agree the rock barrier works well!

Sorry starve probly was not the best word choice. It will deprive it of oxygen and thats not good.