Moving Rock Anemone`s/mushrooms

[BigIan]

Ho does one go about moving/removing rock anemone`s and mush rooms? as thay have populated almost every piecve of LR in our tank and we want rid of a few

 

[SkiFletch]

Same way you manually get rid of aiptasia. Joes Juice, Kalkwasser, lemon juice, etc injected into the nem.

 

[Mr Miagi]

If they are shrooms, and you still want the head to attach somewhere else, cut off their foot, and place the head of the shrooms on some LR rubble, glue it to another rock, or wrap it and a piece of LR rubble in some bridle veil. If they are pests, and you want to aradicate them, use methods suggested by Ski. I cant see why you'd wanna move them, just leave em be. They will only regrow, and go back to where they want.

 

[Miss Wiggle]

we want to move them as they've gone on a rock we really want to put another coral on.

it's the rock nem's thats a problem really, can we move them elsewhere or is the only option to zap them?

we're taking a colony of them to teh lfs tonight to trade in, and our two clowns cos they're bullying mr grumpy, our new firefish. not fussed about keeping them but we like him so they're going back to the shop.

we started off with 4 fish, down to just 1 now! managed not to kill anyone though

 

[SkiFletch]

You could try cutting and gluing them but nems are pretty in-tolerant of that treatment. Rock anemones are as hardy as they come, but even they might not survive a good old slice and glue

 

[Miss Wiggle]

You could try cutting and gluing them but nems are pretty in-tolerant of that treatment. Rock anemones are as hardy as they come, but even they might not survive a good old slice and glue

meh, we're not that fussed about keeping them, can just zap them if we can't move them. got billions of them anyway.


trying my best to be heartless, i'll blatently be hiding upstairs while Ian does it

 

[James B]

thick question but when you say inject do you mean hyperdermic (sp) needle inject or just squirt them with it

 

[SkiFletch]

If you can inject them with a hypodermic thats the best method, but most nems are pretty quick reacting (espeically aiptasia) and will retreat immediately from an injection. The better method with aiptasia is to just squirt the solutions right into their mouths somewhat slowly. Rock nems probably dont have the ability to retract that aiptasia do though so in that case I'd stick em

 

[sianeds]

i have been trying to inject my aiptasia for about a month now and like you say they just retract so much it's impossible to get the needle into them. if i carefully squirt the poison at them will it not get into the water and damage my corals??

at present they are in a tank with come mushrooms and a small colony of xenia also a recovering starburst colony.

i really don't want to harm the mushrooms (which are on a separate piece of rock waiting for some cyanobacteria to die off before going into our big tank).

the xenia (which is on the same rock as the aiptasia) i am not too bothered about as we have a huge colony in the big tank.

the starburst (also on a separate rock) had a fight with the aiptasia and lost and was almost completely decimated. it is now coming back slowly and i'd like to keep it alive and also put it into our big tank when it is recovered.

i am currently letting the aiptasia grow a bit so it will be a bigger target to inject.

in our big tank we have a few very small aiptasia which our peppermint shrimps are taking care of nicely. apart from peppermint shrimps and butterfly fish (which we don't want) is there anything else which might eat them??

also.... i have read that the cyanobacteria will use up it's fuel in the tank and die off if left...is this true and if not what can i do?? i only have it in my quarantine/hospital tank at the moment so it's not a huge problem but would like to know in case it appears in the bigger reef tank.

 

[SkiFletch]

Just slowly squirt the chemical at the aiptasia. It will diffuse into the water column to non-damaging levels very quickly so I wouldnt worry about other corals unless they are literally on top of the aiptasia. But since nothing really survives the sting of an aiptasia, go ahead and just spray them with a little bit of whatever you're using to kill them.

Cyano is a real tough one. Gotta keep up good nutrient export and low nutrient import to beat cyano. SIlicates and phosphates are ideal fuels for cyano, so methods should be taken to avoid these. Cyano also thrives under low-modeerate light and in stagnant areas of flowrate. If you can run a refugium, use RO water, do regular water changes, and run a phosphate binding media you stand a good chance at avoiding it. Still might get some though

 

[Miss Wiggle]

we found after squirting aiptasia the mushrooms all shrivelled up, so the next time we did it we waited for a water change got the RO mixed up and ready to go in the tank, then zapped the aiptasia and immediately started changing the water so any excess was taken out or at least reduced