Anemones destress

James7733 · Sep 19, 2015

Hi. I just received word from my wife that my large maroon clown fish may have killed or wounded my Haitian anemone's The maroon clown has been ruff housing a bit with them but they seemed fine when I left for work six hours ago.
I have an empty twenty long tank and was thinking if they are alive when I get home I would like to put them in it.

Does anyone know if these anemones will be able to survive if I only place them in the twenty with a few pieces of live rock and no sand.

I figured I would put one wave maker. A seaclone skimmer and a mini chiller/heater. I also figured to use the main tanks watert to fill most of the tank and make new ro/di water to replace removed main tanks water. The main tank is a 55 with a HOB refugium that's 4 x 16 x 25
long and full of macro algae.

steelheader.262 · Sep 19, 2015

Good luck, hope it's ok.

James7733 · Sep 19, 2015

Thanks 11,pm can't come soon enough!

James7733 · Sep 20, 2015

steelheader.262 said:
Good luck, hope it's ok.

Well here,s the deal with once back home. I found the small Haitian anemone deflated and upside down and away from the large Haitian anemone. The large one is missing a few of its purple tips but otherwise seems okay. I relocated the small one and noticed its still alive but was opening and closing its mouth. I target fed it soom zoo plankton. The long tenticle anemone also seemed okay so I fed it a piece of krill. Today it is small and deflated. I built protection caves for the small hiatian and long tenticle anemones and surrounded the large hiatian with large rock pieces to temporarily protect it from the five inch maroon gold stripe clown fish now named red devil shark.
I now know what red devil shark is doing. Any deflated anemone he tries to feed to the non deflated which causes grave damage to all stung. Now that I have caught on to his stunts I'm going to cover the anemones with see through hard plastic containers which I will drill a ton of holes through and then surround and cover them with rock work. No fishes or hermit crabs will be able to bother them. When I have a cycled second tank ready and all anemones are determined healthy enough for removal they will have thier very own tank. I will perhaps one day put them back in the main display if they grow large enough to not be able to be stressed to death by relentless over zealous clown fish. I shall win this war!!!