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Heyho fellow salty goons. Can anyone here give me some good tips on how to remove anemones? And no, I don't mean aptasia, I mean E. quadricolor/bubble tip anemones. I put one in my tank about four and a half years ago together with clownfish. The problem is, that sucker spawns an offspring about once a year by dividing, and some of the offspring tend to do the same after about two years. I currenlty have nine in the tank....one (luckily) walked into a pump two years ago, another was foolish enough to show me it's foot one day and I was able to get her out. All the other ones have their feet planted deep into the rocks, and the problem is my rocks are glued together, so I can't even take them out and scrub them off. Of course, they destroy nearly all LPS on their damage tour through my tank. What I tried: - putting a plant pot over them in hope they move due to missing light => they simply rear their ugly pink tentacled head out of another slit in the rocks - touching them with a silver spoon => they are not even interested in this - pulling them => they simply vanish in the rocks, and if I actually pull too hard (thus damanaging part of their tissue), they simply spread into two the next couple days and both survive - point a pump at them => I get the feeling the suckers even enjoy it My plan is to remove all but two, because if they divide any more, I will have an anemone-only tank in couple of years. Did anyone here ever have a similar problem, and knows of ways how to remove them? Killing is an option, but I am doubtful about that due to all the poo poo they release into the water my tank has about 680 litres/180 gallons. Any help is greatly appreciated!
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DeadlyMuffin posted:If you're open to killing them, you could try kalk paste, like people do for aptasia. I would definitely be my last option. I already asked in many forums if people want them if they manage to remove them, but sadly, no one bites. My fear regarding kalk paste is that - similar to aptasia - they basically implode an spill all their guts all over the tank....I mean, my tank runs since over five years and is very stable regarding water quality, but I don't want to ruin anything. The one that walked into the pump was a new one, small, and the tank didn't care (I also wasn't there when it happened), but the big ones are about 20 to 25cm in diameter, and I have no idea what happens if I inject kalk paste into one of them  e: I know a friend who has a pure anemone tank...it is rather beautiful, but he also removed quite a lot of stones so that he has easy access to their foots. He has to remove a lot during a year, but he built the tank in a way that he can get them out easily and sell them...something I didn't think about when I put mine in :/ ee: I just noticed something I might have to take a closer look at. I tried my luck again couple of minutes ago on one that showed a little bit of foot, but without luck. I damaged it a bit (not on the foot), but now my aptasia-killing c. rostratus can't stop picking at that spot, and the anemone already seems totally pissed (thin tentacles so I guess it's doing an internal water change). Gonna hope the rostratus has some BIG appetite in the coming hours.... tuo fucked around with this message at 18:18 on Mar 23, 2018 |
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To anyone with a similar problem: you can remove the big ones the same way you kill aptasia. You actually only need a very, very little amount of kalk paste. Put it on their mouth, and wait couple of hours. They'll crawl out of wherever they were hiding and are basically half dead/won't stick to the stones any longer. You can then savely remove them. It's sad I had to do this, but I removed four of eleven this way, so that at least the left part of my tank now is anemone-free and I can put some corals there again. Note that - allthough they don't explode right away - the water stinks of dead anemone, so I wouldn't advice this for a tank with unstable biology. I'm currently doing a big water exchange to be on the safe side. In a couple of weeks, I will remove another three or four. It's very sad I have to remove them this way and can't simply gift them to someone, but it's a lesson learned. As beautiful as they are, they duplicate the same as any other anemone, and can become a problem over time.
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