I'm so pissed about this that I have been avoiding the forum so I didn't have to tell. I lost my giant LTA over the weekend.
I had this beautiful anemone for over a year and it never had any health issues. I got it at maybe 6" and grew it out to over 18" in this time. The past 4-5 months it decided it wasn't happy in one place and had started to travel around the tank stinging everything in it's giant path. So I built a rock wall blocking it off to the left quarter of my DT. Once every couple weeks it would decide to move and travel around it's area, but could not escape.
Well, over the weekend I had to head to the ranch as usual. Friday after work I noticed that it had started to move and was actually letting go of it's hold. The damn clowns were helping for some reason by swimming under the oral disc and kinda lifting it up.
So I reached in and set the nem back into the sandbed. I watched for over an hour as the nem planted itself back into the sand. At that point I had to leave for the ranch. Didn't want to... but no choice on that matter.
Came back Sunday to find the nem sucked partially into a koralia 1400. Immediately began to flip out like a ninja. Cut the power to the PH, and pulled the cover to assess the situation. The damn thing had no tenticles left. All were shredded and all over my DT and my skimmer was going nuts!!!! On top of that, portions of the oral disk had started to be sucked through the vent slots in the cover and were filled with water inside it. This made it impossible for me to manually remove it without ripping the oral disc. So I set it and the powerhead cover into a bucket of tank water to try to let it sort itself out. Many hours later nothing had happened. At this point the water in the bucket was slimey and nasty and stunk like something I cannot explain. I assumed the nem was on the way out and there was no way I was going to put it back into the DT. Out of frustration I pulled out the surgical scissors, cut it free from the cover, tossed it in the trash, and poored myself a glass of Jack Daniels Silver Select to help ease the pain.
It was a sad day folks, a sad day indeed.
I had this beautiful anemone for over a year and it never had any health issues. I got it at maybe 6" and grew it out to over 18" in this time. The past 4-5 months it decided it wasn't happy in one place and had started to travel around the tank stinging everything in it's giant path. So I built a rock wall blocking it off to the left quarter of my DT. Once every couple weeks it would decide to move and travel around it's area, but could not escape.
Well, over the weekend I had to head to the ranch as usual. Friday after work I noticed that it had started to move and was actually letting go of it's hold. The damn clowns were helping for some reason by swimming under the oral disc and kinda lifting it up.
So I reached in and set the nem back into the sandbed. I watched for over an hour as the nem planted itself back into the sand. At that point I had to leave for the ranch. Didn't want to... but no choice on that matter. Came back Sunday to find the nem sucked partially into a koralia 1400. Immediately began to flip out like a ninja. Cut the power to the PH, and pulled the cover to assess the situation. The damn thing had no tenticles left. All were shredded and all over my DT and my skimmer was going nuts!!!! On top of that, portions of the oral disk had started to be sucked through the vent slots in the cover and were filled with water inside it. This made it impossible for me to manually remove it without ripping the oral disc. So I set it and the powerhead cover into a bucket of tank water to try to let it sort itself out. Many hours later nothing had happened. At this point the water in the bucket was slimey and nasty and stunk like something I cannot explain. I assumed the nem was on the way out and there was no way I was going to put it back into the DT. Out of frustration I pulled out the surgical scissors, cut it free from the cover, tossed it in the trash, and poored myself a glass of Jack Daniels Silver Select to help ease the pain.
It was a sad day folks, a sad day indeed.
