imapookie2
New member
Hello,
This is my first post and you would know it's because of an accident and injury to one of my tank mates. I am new to saltwater but have tried to do my best to read up and prepare and continue to learn, learn, and learn some more! I am in process of switching over to a complete refugium system. I've had great success and all my occupants are growing. My tank has progressed nicely through all it's stages so far and all my levels are at zero except a 0.25 phosphate. I am currently keeping a cyano bloom in check but the battle is minimal and seems to be in check overall.
My problem has to do with my Condy who was growing and doing fantastic. Upon having to rearrange and stabilize some wobbling top rocks along with meeting the changes needed for the filter situation, my anemone moved and sucked to a powerhead. Last time this will happen because they are leaving! So to my horror and total lack of experience I did the best I could and as carefully as possible detached him. The bad part is that he had about a third of his tentacles mangled and a tear to his middle section and possibly some mouth and insides damage. I tried to let him detach on his own but he was stuck up in the guard.
So here we are 5 days later and he is still alive and kicking with a healthy pink foot color and firmly attached under a rock. All tentacles that I can see look good and he's completely inflated. The problem is that where the small tear is there is a couple of tentacles sticking out and some internal material out as well. What in the world do I do? He did allow a few mysis pieces to stick to his tentacles and he drew them in so his appetite looks to be coming back. Should I try to gentle push it back in or what? Also on a weird note there's about an inch long piece of tentacle that fell to the tank and is still moving. Suggestions? It seems to be the same piece that fell of the next day and it's still alive........weird.......could it regenerate?
This is my first post and you would know it's because of an accident and injury to one of my tank mates. I am new to saltwater but have tried to do my best to read up and prepare and continue to learn, learn, and learn some more! I am in process of switching over to a complete refugium system. I've had great success and all my occupants are growing. My tank has progressed nicely through all it's stages so far and all my levels are at zero except a 0.25 phosphate. I am currently keeping a cyano bloom in check but the battle is minimal and seems to be in check overall.
My problem has to do with my Condy who was growing and doing fantastic. Upon having to rearrange and stabilize some wobbling top rocks along with meeting the changes needed for the filter situation, my anemone moved and sucked to a powerhead. Last time this will happen because they are leaving! So to my horror and total lack of experience I did the best I could and as carefully as possible detached him. The bad part is that he had about a third of his tentacles mangled and a tear to his middle section and possibly some mouth and insides damage. I tried to let him detach on his own but he was stuck up in the guard.
So here we are 5 days later and he is still alive and kicking with a healthy pink foot color and firmly attached under a rock. All tentacles that I can see look good and he's completely inflated. The problem is that where the small tear is there is a couple of tentacles sticking out and some internal material out as well. What in the world do I do? He did allow a few mysis pieces to stick to his tentacles and he drew them in so his appetite looks to be coming back. Should I try to gentle push it back in or what? Also on a weird note there's about an inch long piece of tentacle that fell to the tank and is still moving. Suggestions? It seems to be the same piece that fell of the next day and it's still alive........weird.......could it regenerate?
