[doctor T]

I have an anemone (sp) attached to the bottom of a piece of fake coral I really want to remove from my tank. Is there a way to get him to release??
DT

[RyanG]

This has been moved to the current forum.

[Reef-Daddy]

I have used a power head aimed at the feet of the anemone... it takes patience but after awhile, it will begin to release. I think it was a 250 Gal/Hr so it wasn't too strong of a current. Hope that helps.

[sellelg]

They are interesting creatures and they seem to do what you don't want them to do. I think that if you make him uncomfortable where he is, he will move. That can be done with flow or shade him with a rock.

[doctor T]

Does any one know a way to get an anemone to release it hold?
I have one attached to something I want out of my tank.
Thanks
doc T

[jvharding]

you can very gently probe its base to get it to release it self they generaly shrink when you start to handle them. This works on rock easily! What has it attached to?

[doctor T]

The pink tipped anemone is attached to the underside of a fake coral.
When I first put him in the tank over a month ago, he seemed to disappear!
I saw a small tunnel at the side of the base of the "coral" and he had gone under it and attached. The underside of the fake coral is concave and very smooth. I laid the coral on it's side and he (she) has been there ever since. The darn thing seems to love it and has almost doubled in size. I have heard that the foot is very delicate and so I do not want to damage it by doing the wrong thing. The problem is that what he is attached to is the only non natural item in the tank and I would really like to get it out.

[Reef-Daddy]

Originally Posted by doctor T

The pink tipped anemone is attached to the underside of a fake coral.
When I first put him in the tank over a month ago, he seemed to disappear!
I saw a small tunnel at the side of the base of the "coral" and he had gone under it and attached. The underside of the fake coral is concave and very smooth. I laid the coral on it's side and he (she) has been there ever since. The darn thing seems to love it and has almost doubled in size. I have heard that the foot is very delicate and so I do not want to damage it by doing the wrong thing. The problem is that what he is attached to is the only non natural item in the tank and I would really like to get it out.

I have used a powerhead several times (aimed at the feet) to move mine and he/she is doing fine.

[doctor T]

Thanks all for the ideas. I will let you know
DT

[reefaddict]

I have had my LFS lift the item that it is attached to out of the water with the anenome upside down hanging in the water and barely lift the foot up out of the water and it will start to dettach.

[doctor T]

Like I said it sounds so simple!! Have you actually seen it done?
I am surprised that no one else suggested it.
DT

[reefaddict]

Watched him do it right in front of me. It took awhile though. You have to be patient.

[doctor T]

Well I tried it last night for about 2 hours and the little bugger would not budge!
Any input amigos?
DT

[Big D]

Originally Posted by doctor T

Well I tried it last night for about 2 hours and the little bugger would not budge!
Any input amigos?
DT

Which method did you try?... I have gotten mine to release by hanging him upside down in a large container of water. It took about 30 mins or so for him to finally release his foot from the rock, I gave him a little help by jiggling the rock some. You just have to make sure you don't damage their foot. Also, make sure whatever your using to hold the rock up is stronge enough to do so or it could fall and crush him.


Big D

[doctor T]

I proped up the item he is attached to so that the foot was above the water line. He was like that for almost 2 hours. His foot just streched longer! I tried jiggling him and also breifly removing him completely form the tank. I also placed hin so that the power head was blowing on his foot.
No luck at all!!!
DT

[reefaddict]

If it were me, I would not risk and possible damage adn just wait til he moves off of it on his own. Place him were he might not like it and just wait til the day comes.

[doctor T]

Well as an update... That night I left the object on it's side out of the light stream with the hope that he would move. (haha). The next morning when I got up he didn't look so good. That evening when I got home from work there were long strands floating around in the tank and the anemone, well, I considered removing him from the tank and placing him in his final resting place. I did not (being the optimist that I am) and set him in what I thought was the perfect place within the tank. Well Lazarus (that is what I call him now) decided that it was the perfect place and now he (or probably as fickle as it is) SHE, could be a photo in the National Geographic, Jaques Coustou special edition, with the fold out suppliment on invertibrates!! Go figure. Makes me want to go out and buy another one just to see if I can beat it into submission as well. Any way,

Does anyone know how to get an (SOB inchin) anemone of release???

You gotta love this hobby.
Doc T

[Reef-Daddy]

When I used the power head method, I had to hold it just a couple inches away from the foot area for about 5-6 minutes as it slowly started to release. It didn't look good right afterwards, but was no worse for wear. Of course I eventually gave up trying to find that perfect place where I thought he-she-it should be and renamed it "Pain" and let it decide where it wanted to finally hang...