Help me remove my Anemone from my rock!

turbonegro · #1 03/19/2007, 06:04 PM

I have had this guy for a little over a year with no problems. For the past few weeks he has been causing trouble with some of my sps frags. I want to relocate him to another tanks before he kills my bali slimer and ORA turq stag. Could you give me some pointers on how to remove him. Thanks Bobby

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BAYONNEREEF · #2 03/19/2007, 06:48 PM

very nice tank

zoomfish1 · #3 03/19/2007, 07:15 PM

Here's what works for me. Rub ice on the foot. I used about 3 pieces; after one melts, do another, then another. Next, Take a credit card and work a small piece of the foot up. Be very careful not to tear the foot. Last, work the foot off the rock very slowly until you get it all off.

The whole process could take as long as 10-15 minutes. When you get the first small portion of the foot off the rock you'll think, wow, that was easy. Don't get too confident, that was the easy part. Go slow, this process has worked 4 or 5 times for me.

I tried pointing a powerhead at the foot, did nothing for me. May work for some, but that only makes them move, not release.

uscharalph · #4 03/20/2007, 03:11 AM

Ice huh!?!

turbonegro · #5 03/20/2007, 10:25 AM

I tried the ice, but his foot is in a hole under the rock. Is there another way?

jmick · #6 03/20/2007, 12:28 PM

I had the same problem with a rock anemone that had it's foot fairly deep in a hole in the rock and I needed to move him. First tried aiming a powerhead at him and that didn't work. Ended up putting a rock on top of him and that did the trick, took about 6 hours for it to move far enough for me to pull it loose.

cschweitzer · #7 03/20/2007, 01:58 PM

Put a black piece of acrylic over him to shut out the light...make it to where he is forced around the acrylic(away from the corals) to get light. They will sometimes reattach their base on the bottom of the acrylic. If this happens, you're lucky and can pull the acrylic out. If not, he will have to rearrange his base to gain light source. While moving, they are easiest to get off the rock.