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RayAllen
Mon, 1st Dec 2008, 08:01 PM
Well I had things going smoothly; water paremeters spot on. Vey cool aquascaping. Happy Clams and very happy anemone.

I had to move the larger of my two clams today because the anemone in all its 8"+ diameter glory tentacles were to close for comfort. When I moved the clam he really had a hold and in the process of moving him I think the rock moved a bit which 1- 1/2 hours later caused a decent rock slide.

I was in the room when it happened and it scared the crap out of me. I jumped up real fast to fix the problem and a smaller rock tumbles past the anemone which cause it to react and it went from 8"+ to 2" in no time. Nothing actually landed on the anemone so all I can do is hope I just scared it and didnt actually cause damage. The clown wont leave it alone of corse so I guess I will know soon enough.

:bareteeth:
chark
Mon, 1st Dec 2008, 08:34 PM
Sorry to hear about your troubles. It happens to me also. I moved a rock yesterday to kill some aptasia and it took me 30 min to fix it. Hope your anemone is ok.
jrsatx20
Mon, 1st Dec 2008, 08:52 PM
imo and experenice the anenome will be fine mine does it all the time. one time it got stuck with my urchin. well long story short had to manualy remove urchin and my hand got stuck for about an hour before he realized i wasnt food. by the way my carpet is like 12" - 14" across
RayAllen
Mon, 1st Dec 2008, 09:09 PM
Looks like its going to be ok as of now, None of the tentacles look smashed. Whats annoying is once you undo your rockscaping you cant ever get to look the same. So now the tank looks a bit diffrent.
Morena_Model
Mon, 1st Dec 2008, 09:41 PM
yea we hate when rocks falls or slides ....

we were setting up our bio cube and one of the rocks fell out of our hand and on to a fish and well yea he didn't make it ... good thing it was only a damsel lol
DrMark
Mon, 1st Dec 2008, 09:58 PM
yea we hate when rocks fall or slide ....

we were setting up our bio cube and one of the rocks fell out of our hand and on to a fish and well yea he didn't make ... good thing it was only a damsel lol

I could only be so lucky to have a rock fall on the damsels
mark
SABOB
Mon, 1st Dec 2008, 09:59 PM
That's bout the only way to get rid of Damsels,LOL
Morena_Model
Mon, 1st Dec 2008, 10:03 PM
lol yea when we had to take out all the damsels from the 55g we had to take out all the rock to do it what a pain
CoryDude
Mon, 1st Dec 2008, 11:33 PM
Damsel haters!!!

Understand your pain w/the rockslide. I think I'd rather move a tank than move things in the tank, because it's just like you said; you never get the rockwork back to the way it used to be.
vman181
Tue, 2nd Dec 2008, 10:00 PM
Damsel haters!!!

Understand your pain w/the rockslide. I think I'd rather move a tank than move things in the tank, because it's just like you said; you never get the rockwork back to the way it used to be.


I hate trying to get the rock work the way I want it to start with
Joe31
Tue, 2nd Dec 2008, 11:14 PM
Well Ray where are the NEW pics?