Oh whoa is me (1 Viewer)

[pernelf]

Well came home to a nice little surprise in the fish tank last night. One of my LTA's had a long chat with the intake screen on the maxijet power head. I spent a few hours last night very slowly and carefully trying to extract the LTA. So far so good, there does seem to be a slight tear near the mouth area but the foot seems to be relatively intact if not a little stretched out, ok, way stretched but no tears. Most of the tentacles are pretty shredded. I would have taken pics and even considered it but was more worried about getting it out of the screen. After the extraction operation the anemone is back in the tank and has its foot buried down in the sand bed under the rocks and the portion on the top that had a tear, the whole area is kind of curled in on itself. I'll try to get some pics tonight. The clowns don't seem to mind and spend most of their time in the larger undamaged LTA. Just one of the hazards of walking anemones in a tank. I hope it survives

 

[Guest]

Do your LTA's wander a lot?

Mine moved about 6" the first day I had it, and has stayed in the same spot since then (4-5 weeks now).

 

[pernelf]

Well my original LTA that I still have waited about 7-8mths to finally settle down and bury it's foot. The second one(shredded one) I got still likes to wander a litte bit, it's only a 30 gallon and the largest anenome can take up about a 1/4 of the tank when it's fully extended so it's more wandering to find it's own space in the tank, prime real estate is hard with the other soft corals in there. Usually if I put smaller rocks around the foot of the anenome it feels secure and will bury down.

 

[Guest]

My carpet had an arguement with a return pump I had in my tank, too. Luckily, the carpet won and there was no damage to the anemone since it was massive enough to stop most of the suction while it was still attached to the bottom of the tank. Now it sits happily in Abran's tank where it survived his meltdown.