Hi Folks. Yesterday I picked up a bubble tip anemone from the LFS where I got my tank. They sell them in a little glass cup. He seems really attached to his little cup, oth literally and figuratively. Here is a picture showing what I did, I wrapped a peice of paper plate around the cup to help block light to it.
Now I have been reading last night and this morning that some have successfully removed these with ice on the foot (maybe I could rub the glass where his foot is attached with Ice? Putting them in pipes, or gently prying with a credit card or plastic knife.
Some of my concerns , and please dispell them if able, are as follows:
The Ice, I am nervous to stress him out more, also should I make the ice out of DI, would a single cube of ice in the tank hurt much, or two, three cubes? Would the ice on the outside of the glass make the glass too cold too fast and hurt him? Would I hold him out of the water and let him drop into the tank onto a rock, or should I catch him in a net.
Prying with a credit card method, the glass is too small to get in a credit card. I could get a set of angled tweezers in and use them as a scraper, but I do not want to injure him at all, especially if he is relatively safe in the glass.
The pipe method: I have a large dark coffee cup that the glass would fit into, would this be better then my paper plate setup? If he decided to just move and stick the the edge of the coffee cup, it would make it easy to get a credit card under him.
How fast do they move? Inch per hour, foot per minute? Should I give the paper plate setup a whole day to work?
Thanks for reading and for any advice. Here is my second nem.
Clownfish should be out of quarantine in November, wanted to get the anemones established first. I am dosing KH, MG and Ca using 3 dosing pumps.
People say not to feed them for the first week or two, I am worried that they might go "wandering" looking for food if I do not offer some sooner, thoughts?
I have one more gyro and one more light strip to buy, hopefully early this week. My goal is to get everything dialed in so the anemones can settle and find a happy place before I start placing frags.
I have read that anemones require a very stable tank. It is my hope that having the established sand bed and water, as well as dosing pumps to keep parameters in line and steady, dual backup heaters, and a full electronic testing suite, that I can provide these guys with a stable happy home to let them find their place before I start to decorate.
On an unrelated note, I have set up a quarantine tank and have two very tiny mandarins on quarantine. I am curious if the mandarins will know to avoid the anemone, they are aquaculture, about 3/8" long, really tiny.
Now I have been reading last night and this morning that some have successfully removed these with ice on the foot (maybe I could rub the glass where his foot is attached with Ice? Putting them in pipes, or gently prying with a credit card or plastic knife.
Some of my concerns , and please dispell them if able, are as follows:
The Ice, I am nervous to stress him out more, also should I make the ice out of DI, would a single cube of ice in the tank hurt much, or two, three cubes? Would the ice on the outside of the glass make the glass too cold too fast and hurt him? Would I hold him out of the water and let him drop into the tank onto a rock, or should I catch him in a net.
Prying with a credit card method, the glass is too small to get in a credit card. I could get a set of angled tweezers in and use them as a scraper, but I do not want to injure him at all, especially if he is relatively safe in the glass.
The pipe method: I have a large dark coffee cup that the glass would fit into, would this be better then my paper plate setup? If he decided to just move and stick the the edge of the coffee cup, it would make it easy to get a credit card under him.
How fast do they move? Inch per hour, foot per minute? Should I give the paper plate setup a whole day to work?
Thanks for reading and for any advice. Here is my second nem.
Clownfish should be out of quarantine in November, wanted to get the anemones established first. I am dosing KH, MG and Ca using 3 dosing pumps.
People say not to feed them for the first week or two, I am worried that they might go "wandering" looking for food if I do not offer some sooner, thoughts?
I have one more gyro and one more light strip to buy, hopefully early this week. My goal is to get everything dialed in so the anemones can settle and find a happy place before I start placing frags.
I have read that anemones require a very stable tank. It is my hope that having the established sand bed and water, as well as dosing pumps to keep parameters in line and steady, dual backup heaters, and a full electronic testing suite, that I can provide these guys with a stable happy home to let them find their place before I start to decorate.
On an unrelated note, I have set up a quarantine tank and have two very tiny mandarins on quarantine. I am curious if the mandarins will know to avoid the anemone, they are aquaculture, about 3/8" long, really tiny.