Magnificent emergency

Wildblue4 · Mar 31, 2019

my magnificent Anemone decided to move after 8 months in the same spot. Unfortunately he moved and a few of his tentacles got into an uncovered power head. I know rookie mistake. I was just getting ready to cover them but put it off. Live and learn.
Here’s my issue. The Magnificent released it’s toxin into the water killing all the fish except the Clowns. I have done water changes and added Carbon to my sump. Will my tank ever host fish again? Anyone else ever went through this and if so what did you do to clean the tank. I don’t want to sacrifice any fish. I’m still sick that I killed my others.
Any help would be appreciated.

EmdeReef · Mar 31, 2019

Steven Drake said:
my magnificent Anemone decided to move after 8 months in the same spot. Unfortunately he moved and a few of his tentacles got into an uncovered power head. I know rookie mistake. I was just getting ready to cover them but put it off. Live and learn.
Here’s my issue. The Magnificent released it’s toxin into the water killing all the fish except the Clowns. I have done water changes and added Carbon to my sump. Will my tank ever host fish again? Anyone else ever went through this and if so what did you do to clean the tank. I don’t want to sacrifice any fish. I’m still sick that I killed my others.
Any help would be appreciated.

Sorry about that

Water changes + carbon is your best bet. Have you tested ammonia?

Wildblue4 · Mar 31, 2019

EmdeReef said:
Sorry about that

Water changes + carbon is your best bet. Have you tested ammonia?

No but all the snails are fine and I have a ton of them in the tank. Snail can’t take ammonia so I assume the levels are fine.
I’ll test if it’s best too.

Mariette · Mar 31, 2019

Steven Drake said:
my magnificent Anemone decided to move after 8 months in the same spot. Unfortunately he moved and a few of his tentacles got into an uncovered power head. I know rookie mistake. I was just getting ready to cover them but put it off. Live and learn.
Here’s my issue. The Magnificent released it’s toxin into the water killing all the fish except the Clowns. I have done water changes and added Carbon to my sump. Will my tank ever host fish again? Anyone else ever went through this and if so what did you do to clean the tank. I don’t want to sacrifice any fish. I’m still sick that I killed my others.
Any help would be appreciated.

No advice. Just condolences. As you said, live and learn

EmdeReef · Mar 31, 2019

Steven Drake said:
No but all the snails are fine and I have a ton of them in the tank. Snail can’t take ammonia so I assume the levels are fine.
I’ll test if it’s best too.

I would test to make sure. The fact that only clowns survived points that it could be the toxin but more often than not when anemones die it’s the ammonia that kills.

Wildblue4 · Mar 31, 2019

That’s true. The Magnificent didn’t die. He’s doing great. Clowns are in it. I’ll test just to make sure though.

gig 'em · Mar 31, 2019

How many tentacles did it lose? I’ve had anemones get a get tentacles chewed off by a pump and nothing happened. Was the water cloudy with it? I’m wondering if something else was wrong and the anemone moving was just a reaction to water quality and not the cause

Wildblue4 · Mar 31, 2019

Gig. It happened during the night. The skimmer went crazy. Nothing else in the tank changed and my RBTA was fine.

Wildblue4 · Mar 31, 2019

Ammonia was 0

Wildblue4 · Apr 9, 2019

gig 'em said:
How many tentacles did it lose? I’ve had anemones get a get tentacles chewed off by a pump and nothing happened. Was the water cloudy with it? I’m wondering if something else was wrong and the anemone moving was just a reaction to water quality and not the cause

Gig
My Mag has settled at the top of the tank. He seems to be fine and happy just not on a rock what do you think? Water is fine. 0 Ammonia DkH 8.0 Cal 440 PH 8.0. Just leave him alone.

gig 'em · Apr 9, 2019

Steven Drake said:
Gig
My Mag has settled at the top of the tank. He seems to be fine and happy just not on a rock what do you think? Water is fine. 0 Ammonia DkH 8.0 Cal 440 PH 8.0. Just leave him alone.

I’d leave him alone. I’ve had plenty of mags that preferred the glass over rocks

Wildblue4 · Apr 9, 2019

I posted in the other Mag thread also. Did yours go to the top of the tank? He seems fine but didn’t know if I should turn up my lights. Any thoughts?

gig 'em · Apr 9, 2019

It could also be a flow issue. More light never seems to hurt a mag, I’ve seen them inches under the water in the wild. Also seen them decently deep in the wild too, so they can tolerate all kinds of light conditions.

Wildblue4 · Apr 9, 2019

Well that makes sense because everything I read said they like high flow so he had his own powerhead. I didn’t know what high flow meant. Where he has moved he gets some flow but not nearly what he had before. Maybe that’s why he moved.

Wildblue4 · Jun 22, 2019

Just updating my Magnificent. He’s found his place in my Aquarium again. He’s doing great. Seems happy where he has decided to land. Clowns like the spot as well.