Anemone sucked into intake

astral.astrea · Jan 2, 2023

anemone was sucked halfway into the intake of my filter. I was able to gently remove him and dosed with iodine and maracyn oxy. So far he looks league's better than what he did a few hours ago, is there anything extra I should do? He's currently in a specimen cup in the aquarium with an air stone. Should I try and order some cipro?

vetteguy53081 · Jan 3, 2023

May have occurred due to lack of water flow in which they climb closer to flow
If base/foot is not damaged, it stands a chance

astral.astrea · Jan 3, 2023

vetteguy53081 said:
May have occurred due to lack of water flow in which they climb closer to flow
If base/foot is not damaged, it stands a chance

The foot seems to inflate/deflate off and on. At first I thought the foot was severe damaged but it actually looks pretty unphased and it walking around the specimen cup.

Seancj · Jan 3, 2023

It will likely be fine after a few weeks of recovery. I would keep any clowns away from it for a while. They can be rough on damaged/healing nems.
It's happened to all of us that have had anemones over the years. You should not need cipro. Get a guard for that powerhead.

OrionN · Jan 3, 2023

When an anemone inflates its foot, it is a sign that it will take a walk soon.

I take that back. It is “..going for a walk” not “…will take a walk soon.”

D3DPrintedThingz · Jan 3, 2023

Make sure you have a way to double check salinity. I killed 2 anemones before double verifying my salinity level, was running at 1.020 and anemones very mad about it. Hannah has a nice stick to test salinity and temp for $80 best purchase I’ve made yet

laumil87 · May 24, 2024

mine sucked himself into the water intake and was separated into each slot but still connected as one anemone. I have the fiji cube for the 40 breeder and i managed to pull him out but idk if hes going to survive that. Over the past week hes been trying to put himself in dangerous situations so i finally put him into one of those plastic separation cubes....he managed to escape that as well. My parameters are perfect, just changed the water 2 days ago....i swear hes trying to chop suey himself. idk what to do at this point.