My Anemone Imploded

[Kenya]

My green BTA seems to have split or imploded in to 20 or so pieces. It almost look like it got chopped up by a propeller. Now I have all these little chunks of anemone every where. The anemome was around 5-6" when fully open. Now my clownfish look lonely at night.

It has been really healthy and I feed it every week and half to two weeks with krill. Has any one seen anything like this before?

[StevenSeas]

did it get upset and walk around and get caught up in a powerhead??

[Kenya]

thats what I was thinking at first but I doubt a 5" anemone would get sucked up in one my power heads. The inlets are super small slits.

[Reefer4ever]

I would take the pieces of anemone out. I would think they are dead. Is there any crabs or shrimps of some kind that could have done this? Are they all over the tank floating around?

[hobogato]

i had a 15"+ H. magnifica anemone go thru the small slits on a seio intake and nuke my whole tank once. once they start getting sucked in, they have no resistance and can get ground up pretty quickly.


thats what I was thinking at first but I doubt a 5" anemone would get sucked up in one my power heads. The inlets are super small slits.

[Big_Pun]

yup sounds like it went thru a power head I had 6 inch bta that squeezed its body thru a hole lil bigger than a eggcrate square. what kinda of power heads to you have

[aquasport24]

You need to do a couple water changes and run some carbon if you have not do so already.

[Kenya]

Wow thats what happened then. All my powerheads are seio. Suprised that an anemone could get suck into one of those small intakes.


i had a 15"+ H. magnifica anemone go thru the small slits on a seio intake and nuke my whole tank once. once they start getting sucked in, they have no resistance and can get ground up pretty quickly.


Good thing I did 25% water change today!