Anemone Removal Invention

[svreef]

Just wanted to show off my anemone removal invention.

All you need is a piece of foam, a plastic cup and two long rubber bands. Cut a hole in the foam, cut off the bottom of the cup and make holes for the rubber bands.

Then, simply annoy the anemone until it closes up enough to put the foam over it. Finally, place the cup over the foam and use the rubber bands to hold it in place. The anemone will just walk out...

Before - foot in a deep crevice

The contraption

The result next morning

 

[TriggersAmuck]

Nice!

 

[JohnGP]

Brilliant!

 

[CCauthers]

Great idea!

 

[LesPoissons]

Why do you need the foam?

 

[LesPoissons]

Why do you need the foam?

 

[CCauthers]

Why do you need the foam?

To help create a tighter seal against the rock

 

[LesPoissons]

Woah, Idk why that posted so many times? If you are seeing my post 5x, sorry! I dont know what happened!

 

[Bfragale]

This is pretty cool! Nice idea!

 

[LesPoissons]

To help create a tighter seal against the rock

Thats awesome! great idea!

 

[sp1187]

genius.
someone (not me) will patent this and make millions.
now I need to figure out how to make it work for the nem on my back glass.

 

[Cell]

Nice work. I've just been using a large PVC Tee to do basically the same thing. Cut off the light source and make the nem crawl into the tube to reach the light.

 

[RapidReefer]

:0 OMG Brilliant

 

[moz71]

Truly brilliant yet simple. Kind of make you say “why didn’t I think of that”. Lol. I do need to get one out so going to try this. Thank you

 

[svreef]

Truly brilliant yet simple. Kind of make you say “why didn’t I think of that”. Lol. I do need to get one out so going to try this. Thank you

Let me know how it works out!

 

[laverda]

Great idea! I may have to try that. Right now I have 6 anemones in containers ready to sell already.

 

[laverda]

genius.
someone (not me) will patent this and make millions.
now I need to figure out how to make it work for the nem on my back glass.

They are very easy to get off glass. Just use something thin like a piece of plastic with a thin edge, but not sharp edge, preferably with rounded corners. Just slowly and carefully work it under the foot and work your way around the edge lifting gently.

 

[Katrina71]

This is awesome!

 

[PranK]

Well done!

Let me know how to make mini ones for Majano. :D

 

[MattDaReefer]

Just wanted to show off my anemone removal invention.

All you need is a piece of foam, a plastic cup and two long rubber bands. Cut a hole in the foam, cut off the bottom of the cup and make holes for the rubber bands.

Then, simply annoy the anemone until it closes up enough to put the foam over it. Finally, place the cup over the foam and use the rubber bands to hold it in place. The anemone will just walk out...

Before - foot in a deep crevice

The contraption

The result next morning

I have 1 that I have need to move and this looks like an awesome idea..

Thanks for the post