Emergency: Anemone Nuke and Urchin

[mdock]

My long tentacle anemone got caught in a side opening of my AIO tank. I had to split it in order to remove it from the opening. I have come to terms with possibly needing to restart the tank from scratch. There are tentacles and white matter around the tank. I would do it differently now having learned more. However, I still have the anemone in the tank. I removed all the other inhabitants to temporary homes.

A couple questions:

Is it worth waiting to see if the anemone makes it? It was not a very clean separation because of the way it was lodged. I’ve never had an anemone split so I’m not sure what that looks like either.

I had a tuxedo urchin I really liked in that tank. Is he safe to put in my other display tank or will he carry any toxins with him?

Any other advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

 

[The_Bro]

Is it worth waiting to see if the anemone makes it? Yes who knows he might live.
I had a tuxedo urchin I really liked in that tank. Is he safe to put in my other display tank. If any toxins were released I'd be hard pressed to think an animal would carry them. They will be in your water column, so i personally wouldn't worry.
Any other advice would be greatly appreciated. Test for ammonia, Nitrite regularly while the anemone pieces decay. Get out the most you can manually
Also run some carbon for toxins

 

[James M]

LTAs cannot split nor can they be split. It is now dead
Try to siphon out everything a keep doing water changes and you should be able to put everything back in the tank. Never heard of urchin carrying toxins, I would keep it with your other inhabitants