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Guys!
I want to thank you for your advice!!!!! It worked like a charm. I took every single RBTA out of my display attached to a rock.
Let’s them fall off into a bucket worked. Took 30-60 minutes and they all came off rocks. A few I had to nudge off, but nothing terrible.
Unfortunately it was a sad day for my reef. It was a mature SPS and LPS tank of 2 plus years.
Some good news though, I had 32 RBTA’s....
I took them to my LFS in Cherry hill and traded them in. He gave me a handsome credit so I loaded up on some nice corals. Nice colony of Duncan’s, Few Blastos, Open Brain Trachy, Acan colonies and few others.
Here is some before and after:
After taking out all the RBTA:
And Today after loading up:
Nothing is really open yet on new stuff, so we’ll see.
I had a maxi mini climb into a hob filter intake tube (through the screen/guard) but I just cut it open and the nem was fine.I love all my nems and with the decision to have them in my tank comes the risks.
I currently have 2 softball sized RBTA’s, 1 H. Magnifica, 1 LTA, and 3 rock flowers.
In my last 30 gallon, I had a RBTA, and 2 mini maxi’s.
In the past 4 years, only 1 mini maxi ever moved. So I’m not in tune with nem issues.
With that 1 exception, they all stayed where I wanted them to be.
I planned for the appropriate conditions and rock work / substrate in advance and it has worked for me.
Part of me feels the whole “nem thru the powerhead” is exaggerated.
I know it has happened and I feel bad for those it happened to, but my gut says it happens like 1 out of every 1000 nems.
@mdbannister
This could make for a good daily poll!
How many nems have you owned
Ever have one go through a powerhead
Never had one
Etc
To the OP, that wasn’t meant to hijack your thread, and it will be a good thread!
Mike
3 Radion XR15 Pros Gen 4.
Great pics!I love my anemone! It was one of my first additions went in with the clean up crew right after the cycle. He’s spit 5 times since 2013. Moved into a larger aquarium about 3 years ago. Went through a tunze 6105 powerhead and still doing well. Mine doesn’t wander stays put and when it split a piece always stays where it was. I always grab the other half right away when it’s on the move.
The same for me. I started a 20g anemone tank and was able to move one of the 5 that were in the main tank into it. I'd like to move one more into the 20g and get rid of the rest once I get around to figuring out how to remove them from the rock.Absolutely. If I had it to do again, I wouldn't. They grow too big, reproduce and kill my corals. I now have a dedicated anemone cube but I still have 3 in my display tank that I can't get out.
we love reviving old threads vs starting new ones. im for real. I love continuing conversations instead of having 100 of the same thread every few weeks.I love my rainbow bubble tip anemones, bought 3 from the same lfs all from the same split. Started with one but went back for another followed by a third, female blood orange clown wouldn't share nems. I have no interest in corals, would much rather a tank full of anemones. I just put a sponge around the wave pumps and over the filter inlets, slows flow down a tad so will upgrade the wave pumps someday.
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