anemone trouble

kosey929

kosey929

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About a week ago I purchased a bulb anemone for my NC12DX. All was going fine and my ocellaris clowns were hosting it well. Yesterday morning we found the anemone sucked through the intake grill of the tank. :doh

Unfortunately, I was forced to tear the anemone apart to get it out. Suspecting the water was fouled by the whole horrible experience, I immediately did a 50% water change. Now, all of my corals are looking bad. My xenias appear to be dead, my kenya tree and my zoas have not opened since. My spG is fine since the water change. I had tested my water the day before this happened and it was perfect (nitrites, nitrates, ammonia, pH, alkalinity, spG, calcium).

Did the anemone poison the water? What do I do now? My fish all seem fine at this point.

Thanks,
Karen
 
EDGRAY

EDGRAY

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As was told and always has been thats why Anemoneas are not recommended for nanoes cause can nuke/crash your tank, so you're experiensing it now but well be glad you dont lose the fish too anyways ... if you can ASAP... run a new bad of chemi pure, go get a poly filter (normally i cut it in 3 pieces and change it every week or every 2 weeks depending on the color but in your case run the whole thing of poly filter so will take any bad thing is in your water) thats what i should do and well another water change in 2-3days after recent water change will be good just check to have same PH, salinity & temperature... you'll be fine the rest of corals just give them time they will come back.. so good luck and sorry to hear your bad luck...

EDDY
 
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chineseknife1

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Anemones do release toxins into the water after such an incident. It is wise to clean the tank of all the pieces left and discard them. It is best to keep all ph intakes and overflow teeth, and the like, covered to prevent such happenings.
Keep the water changes up, but not such large ones. Smaller and more frequent is better. Run carbon if you have any, as well as the above mentioned poly filters if you can.
There was probably some immediate comsequences when it initally happened to the fish and corals. Doing the large water change ontop of this probably made the corals mad. Keep an eye on them, they should recover however.
unfortunately, anemones ahould be left in the sea. Too many times has an anemone meet its untimely demise, before it reaches the wholesaler even. mojabos, while a pest to some, might be a better alternative.
Also, clownfish do not require an anemone to live in. They will live in euphyllia, mushrooms, zoanthids, and the like.
 
kosey929

kosey929

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update

Thanks for all your good advice! :maitre

So far it appears my only loss was the xenias (and the anemoned of course). My zoas are slowly starting to open again. Yay!! My capnella looks like it's going to be fine even though it hasn't opened again. It looks otherwise healthy.

I've learned my lesson. Someday down the road maybe I'll do a clown/anemone tank sans corals, but for now I'll forgo the anemone.

Ironically, my water conditions are perfect and my hair algae finally seems to be on the decline. :shock:

Go figure.

Karen
 
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