150g Anemone Prop System

peacetypes6 · Jul 23, 2015

any nems for sale yet?

ProjectAnemone · Jul 28, 2015

Nothing yet. I had a significant set back. I was at 59 nems then I had a crash. After getting things under control, I have 29 remaining. All are eating PE Mysis, but I'm going to wait before I do any more propagation. I was hoping to give some to Richard over at www.exoticreefcreations.com so he could test the market at MACNA, but that can't happen now.

I think I went at this too fast, and, as we all know, nothing good happens fast in a reef tank.

ProjectAnemone · Jul 28, 2015

On a positive note, all seven of these survived.

knukles55 · Aug 6, 2015

How did the system crash if you know the cause

CRW Reefer · Aug 6, 2015

I agree can you please explain crash? Was it a chemical warfare or a water parameter issue?

ProjectAnemone · Aug 6, 2015

I got too confident. I had a good system in place, and one day I didn't follow it. I cut 8 nems, 4 each from 2 strains, and just tossed them back in the baskets without keeping them isolated with extra carbon first. I think that started the tail spin. I don't think the bio pellet reactor, GAC, and skimmer was enough to deal with all generated waste. Since adding a sump with live rock, the nems stopped getting excessive foot slime, algae on the baskets stopped growing (I was cleaning the baskets weekly, now I do it once a month) and the surviving nems stopped turning to mush!

I just did my first cut in months tonight. One nem only. I'm leaving the cuts in an isolation tank for 24 hrs.

Fingers crossed.

ProjectAnemone · Aug 7, 2015

The cut from last night is looking good 10 hours later. One is fully inflated, while the other is slumped over - but looks OK to say it just got bifurcated.

mochaclownlover · Aug 8, 2015

how do you keep them in isolation? Can you explain the tank setup? please

ProjectAnemone · Aug 8, 2015

I keep the cuts in an all-in-one nano.

I was only keeping them in here for 45 mins. Now I have decided to keep them out of the main system for 24 hours. To keep the light constant, and water temp steady, I just put the nano in the tub.

gettaReef · Aug 9, 2015

Ha! Very creative place for the nano. Such a cool system!

zup33r · Aug 9, 2015

very cool project

mochaclownlover · Aug 9, 2015

Awesome idea, might have to use it some time.

ProjectAnemone · Aug 10, 2015

I decided to change up the flow and let one strain out of the baskets, they looked like they were getting too much light. To remove the impending death by impeller, I inverted the pumps, and housed them in the baskets. Egg crate and a couple zip ties locks them in place.

mochaclownlover · Aug 10, 2015

awesome idea!

peacetypes6 · Aug 11, 2015

let me know when youre ready to sell i can use a couple.

ProjectAnemone · Aug 26, 2015

I ordered some gel filters to help get better pictures, they arrived today. Can't wait to get home and try them out on the nem tank. Here's a couple of iPhone pics I just took of my office tank.

Here are pics using an iPhone6 with and without the filters.

No filter:

With filter:

Link to gel filters: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Gel-Filters...s-Muti-tint-/262013494484?hash=item3d0138a4d4