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09/28/2018, 06:37 PM | #1 |
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Can it survive?
Hello all. Tragedy struck in my tank today and my beloved haddoni carpet ended up in my cross flow pump. I just placed the pump in the tank last night and everything seemed to be happy with it when I got up this morning. However, when I got home from work I found the carpet tentacle side in the pump.
All of my fish and corals, except my elegance, seem un-phased, though the water is a bit cloudy and the skimmer is working overtime. I am preparing some water for a water change and will complete that this evening. Can the carpet survive its injuries or should I just take it out and have a memorial. It is attached to the rock at the moment, I placed it in the sand where it was before and it climbed the rich a couple of inches. It doesn't look like the foot was damaged, but the disk is torn some on the edges. It has not opened fully, but I can see that the mouth is still tight, and it is very responsive to me touching it. Please let me know what you think I should do. This nem is the pride of my tank and I am SUPER bummed right now. I expected to see my BTA in a pump some day, not my carpet.
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09/28/2018, 06:40 PM | #2 |
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Here are a couple of pics
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09/28/2018, 06:45 PM | #3 |
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Sorry to hear that! Can you show us a picture? That would be easier. Haddoni is hardy anemone in my opinion.
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09/28/2018, 07:06 PM | #4 |
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Look like the foot is still attach to the bottom. It should be fine barring serious infection. Let's hope for the best.
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09/29/2018, 10:42 AM | #5 |
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As long as foot and mouth are not torn it stands a good chance, does not look too bad to me, I've seen worse come back
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09/30/2018, 10:53 PM | #6 |
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I had a gigantea get chewed up by a MP40. It looked rough but pulled through. Yours should be fine. You can even trim off the ripped portion if you like, assuming you don't get too close to the mouth.
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10/01/2018, 01:00 PM | #7 |
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Thank you all for the encouragement! It is still hanging in there and seems to look better every day. The only concern at this point is that the mouth is gaping some, and I have seen some insides sticking out from time to time, though not constantly. I am still optimistic. It looks like the most damaged tissue has fallen off and the disc is healing nicely where the damage was.
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While feeding the tank this morning, i decided to see how the carpet would take to a small piece of shrimp. The good new is that it is still VERY sticky and grabbed right onto the shrimp. 10 minutes later there was no shrimp in sight. The nem still has a great feeding response, though it's color is still pretty subdued and it's mouth is slightly open most of the time. Still, it looks like it is going to pull through.
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10/29/2018, 01:02 PM | #10 |
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UGH!!!
It happened again!!! This carpet seems determined to commit suicide. After the last run in with the crossflow pump, I removed it and the nem has been recovering nicely, coloring up, regaining it's round shape, eating, etc. Then this morning I came downstairs to find it stuck to one of my Jebao OW-10 powerheads. I tried to gently remove it from the powrehead, but it is stuck pretty good. I needed to leave for work, so had no choice but to leave it as it was. I turned off the powerhead and came to work. Hopefully it is ok when I get home tonight. I love this carpet, but this is crazy! I expected my BTA would get stuck in the powerheads, not the carpet.
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Oh no. I always cover my powerhead with a mesh net. I lost one bta to it long time ago. Hope it will recover. Wait for update.
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As long as the holes are not too small or large it should work. its funny cause I just cut a part of the neck of the plastic net-bag that holds the filter media in the filter. I don’t even tie it with anything. The intake flow sucks it on the powerhead very tight. Sometimes it catch algae on it. When it gets too much algae on the net it does slow the flow a little. I take the net out every week to clean it. It worked for me. It’s actually good for the powerhead too. I don’t want the algae to stuck in it. Depends on what powerhead you have. You surely can find something that suits your situation better. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Interesting! Once yes, twice???!!
He seems to be moving a lot towards a flow device. Maybe to much flow? I thought carpets like very gentle flow.....should he not stay stuck? Last edited by Uncle99; 10/29/2018 at 07:41 PM. |
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Oh yes, a change in light, that could get him to go for a stroll.
Ya, if he's stuck and not falling apart, keep him. Long time ago, had one get sucked right up an HOB.....thought for sure....he's dead... After hours of getting him out of the tube, he stayed in one piece....and over months....recovered.....but always stuck. Good luck... |
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That's great news!
If he survived the initial and secondary encounter, he will bounce back. Let's hope he stays put. All the best... |
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Cover those powerheads with plastic mesh trimmed to fit and some zip ties!!! Or just plop a blender in the tank and hope for the best, lol
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12/03/2018, 10:36 PM | #21 |
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I have finally worked out a fix that I hope will end the attempted suicide by my haddoni. I have had no success in getting some sort of mesh to put on the wave makers, so about a week ago I ordered a SCWD in hopes or\f removing the wave makers entirely. A couple of days after I placed the order the Haddoni decided to venture into a wave maker for a third time. Luckily no harm was done at all, but I was still VERY annoyed. After this incident, I decided to turn off the wave maker closest to the anemone permanently.
Today I received the SCWD and redid the return plumbing in order to accommodate the new addition. It only took about 30 minutes to complete the rework of the plumbing. So far things seem to be working well. I removed all of the rigid PVC from the returns and switched to Black Vinyl tubing. Then to make up for the lost flow from removing the wave makers, I cranked the return pump, a Jebao DCP-8000 to 100%. The SCWD is now switching returns approximately every 4.5 seconds. This is not my ideal setup, but for the moment it seems to be doing well. We will see how it goes over the next few days. At least there is no more risk to the anemones.
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