RBTA out of control

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enzo0000

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Can someone suggest a 'safe' way to remove anemones from live rock. My tank is a 50g w/ 40sump. In the last year or so I went from 1 to 11 RBTA's, and that's just what I can see...hard to see all the way behind my tank. Obviously the 2 clowns love it, but half my tank are anemones.

I am currently working on my 180g/65 sump, but don't not want to transfer that many into the new tank, maybe 2 or 3. I don't even know which is the mother anymore.

 
If you are not planning to move them to your new tanks then are you planning to sell them ?

The safest way is to move the anemone with rock itself , if you have small size of rock.

If i were you , i will never remove the anemone when it is already attached to the live rock.
 
blow a small powerhead powerhead right onto the anemone..

or if you can lift the rock, I take it out and hold it upside down and swing lightly. sometimes the anemone will fall off after abit.

some are more stubborn than others..
 
Have used this technique before, they don't like cold objects, use a frozen bag of peas, or corn works too, place it towards the base of their foot, they will start to pull it m off, gradually work it underneath their foot.
 
Fish lover said:
If you are not planning to move them to your new tanks then are you planning to sell them ?

The safest way is to move the anemone with rock itself , if you have small size of rock.

If i were you , i will never remove the anemone when it is already attached to the live rock.
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I wanted to move maybe 3 or 4 to my new tank, the rest I will sell. Another issue is, the rock on the left with the paly's, has 2 rbta's on top, 1 on the back and the ones in the pic (6 in all, i think)...rock weighs about 40lbs. Guess i can see if a local reefer would want the whole rock with RBTA's on it.
 
Wish you were local to me. Mine are all pretty stubborn and I've tried every method in the book and they never moved. I eventually just moved the whole rock coral and all to a different tank, good luck.
 
I sold a BTA which was on a rock with the rock but it only weighed 6lbs so it wasn't a problem. IMO it's much less stressful for a BTA than to try to get it off the rock. But I wouldn't want to try to lift out a 40lb rock. You could just change the flow so it goes off the large rock onto a smaller one and make it easier for you.
 
I have a GBTA that has split over 50-60 times. I use a small plastic butter knife and gently start peeling a corner of the foot. Don't rip it off just nudge it with the butter knife and it will start to let go and work around the foot. Link below is some of the splitters. I got rid of all but one and in a year have around 6 again. Becomes quite the burden when they take over other coral. I am setting up a 40 breeder just for softies/and some anemones.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2070067
 
Thanks for the advice, I'll see if I can get a local reefer that would be interested in the rock w/anem's on them first. If not, ill try some of the suggestions y'all posted.


Cheers
 
I have never fed any of my BTA's. Light and whatever fish food they may get. I have had people that bought mine message me later that theirs split too.
 
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