Acrobat Anenome

RothChyld

RothChyld

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I have a rose anenome and it decided to flip over into my overflow. It was hanging around the top as it likes it there with the light and the current. All of this after putting sponges on my powerheads to keep them from getting sucked in as that is what usually happens. Has anyone had this happen and can you think of any way to potentially stop this in the future?

The anenome was torn up pretty bad. Literally half of it is gone but he is still alive. He was maybe 6 - 8" wide but now he is maybe 2" big and doesn't come out a whole lot. I am going to try to nurse it as he is eating but he only has a half circle of tentacles left. It will probably be a miracle if he survives. :thud:

Mike
 
I'm sorry to say that you are correct and it will be something of a miracle. You'll have to feed it phyto and zoe and avoid solid foods until it recovers some. I don't give it much of a chance though and would probably dispose of it myself.
sorry
 
This is a delema. Anemones -can- regenerate completly if conditions are prestine, however if a anemone dies it will litteraly dissolve and poison the water.
 
I figured a loss of 2/3 of it's body mass would ,"95%" probably kill it . It does have a small chance but, you are faceing a huge risk. I'm surprised that the stinging cells didn't do more damage as they were sprayed all over the tank. To be honest you already were very,very lucky.
 
He was actually cut in half in the overflow and luckily if any of the tentacles went through they would have been caught by the sponge filter. Funny enough I removed the half that had the stomach and he is coming back fairly quickly. He is eating silversides again and his tentacles are out again.

I won't call this a success until another year goes by but even then you never quite know what long term damage this might have done. I do know that the aquacultered anenomes such as this seem to be more hardy than the sebaes, LTA, etc. that are yanked from their ocean home.

Mike
 
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