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important faq about anemone
toxins. 7/16/09
hi,
<... where are your capital letters?>
i want to tell you about an important faq.
120 gallons
Deltec MCE 600
4 pumps 1200
1 gold rim
tomato clown
1 purple tang
mushs corals and anemone magnifica 10 inches
120 lbs live rocks.
i read that post above and the person who is looking for answer is true.
the writer ( answerer is wrong!)
2 days ago , i went to the pet shop for water test. everything was fine.
late night i did a water change and at the same time the anemone
magnifica didn't like it and began to move.
next morning ( today) , i went home for lunch. i looked at the anemone ,
its stuck in the power head.
<...>
my gold rim when to see me when he saw me , (at the corner where i was
watching the anemone in the pump). the gold rim began to violently step
to the top canopy and 2 minutes later, something was really wrong. he
begin to swim on the side of the belly. i toughout he was dying in 2
minutes. i looked at the bottom of the tank and my purple tang was lying
hardly to breathe. i look at my clown fish , he was just fine. the day
before , i had made some salt water ( d/o water ). i but the purple and
the gold rim in it and i went to my pet store were Henry (the pet shop
owner)handle the 2 fishes for a while.
return a my job. at 4:30 pm, i call the pet shop dealer ( Henry ) , he
said to me... your gold rim is out of trouble , he's fine. about he
purple tang, he's not dead but he is on the bottom of tank and hardly
breathing, call me later tomorrow.
how can my parameters was fine the day before and suddenly every fishes
started to dead?. the anemone was remove and its not dead.
the theory is : the anemone when its had a part of her body in the pump,
its feel threat and its began to release toxins in the water.
<Possibly... or just general ammonia et al. release...>
how come, my 2 x 6 inches tangs are nearly death and the clown is fine.
the clown is immunate to the poison toxin of the anemone.
<They are more immune... live with them...>
also, my Deltec 600 when mad, a big , huge amount of skim like a had
never see that. i don't know if its because of its toxin or the toxin
when the system biotic to zero ( more info needed on toxin in the water
). my gold rim was fine and then he approach the anemone corner , he
went mad and its gills was red.
so in my opinion, yes! an anemone can realise toxin that will kill your
entire fishes in the aquarium , if its feel treat.
<Agreed>
so, the guy in the new letter was right. the answerer was wrong. the
anemone wasn't dying , no parts of the anemone was retrieve and anemone
is fine ( with 4 tentacles less ). sorry for my bad English , my primary
language is French.
<Ahh, I see>
i thing that we know less that we thing about anemone toxins and what
can it do to the water chemistry.
benoit
<Thank you for writing in (merci) and sharing. Bob Fenner>
"Anemone Disaster 7/6/05
Hi Guys! <<Hello Carrie>>
Love the site as always... Its been very helpful. <<Thank you>>
My tank is a 38 gal FOWLR and Live sand.
Inhabitants were:
2 BTA's
(originally had one, but it split smaller one was about 1 inch)
1 tomato
clown, 10 yrs old
1 yellow tail damsel, same
1 very small lionfish
(purchased a few months ago)
1 banded shrimp
1 skunk cleaner shrimp
6 hermits (blue leg and scarlet)
3 snails (unknown)
Yesterday, I came home to discover the smaller anemone had died so I
scooped it up and removed it from the tank. Did a water test: 0 ammonia,
0 nitrites, 0 nitrates, ph 8.4, salinity .25 Did a 50% water change
although the water seemed to be fairly clear. Changed half of my carbon
cartridges in my power filters.
Within hours my fish started breathing hard, so I did another 25% water
change (I had run out of salt mix and not a pet store was open).
Woke up this morning to everything dead BUT the large anemone (looks
horrible though, but is still sticking to things) and the
hermits/snails.
Funny, the water still tests normal, 0 on everything.
They water is terribly cloudy.
I removed the hermits & snails and put them in my quarantine tank. They
seem to be doing fine. Fighting as usually and tearing up the place ;0)
I put the anemone in a bucket with a power filter... I'm sure its on the
decline and didn't want to add it to my QT tank since it had copper safe
in it at one time.
My question is how do I go about starting over? I have read a few
conflicting opinions on the site and really couldn't find a whole lot of
specifics about what to do. If anything what should I toss? Will a 100%
water change alone be enough? Is it possible that the large anemone
released the toxins into my tank to kill
everything or could the little one alone be responsible? <<Not a good
idea to keep an anemone in a small tank for just that reason...if the
anemone dies it very quickly pollutes the tank. My suggestion is to get
some
Chemi-Pure in place of the carbon, and let the tank go fallow for about
30 days. I like to base stocking levels at one cubic inch of fish per
five gallons of water. Something to keep in mind on the future set up.
Full grown sizes must also be taken into consideration when selecting
fish. James (Salty Dog)>>
Thanks for any input...
Carrie
Lost fish (full anemone)
Hi
I have a new reef setup I bought
second hand from a friend.
120 gallon tank, plenty of LR, a Tunze
System sump with skimmer.
The tank cycled well according to plan, a
diatom explosion occurred, but quickly resolved with a yellow eyed tank,
snails and hermit crabs.
Then two weeks ago a ritteri Anenome and 2
perc clowns, orchid Dottyback and a yellow tailed damsel were added.
Anyway, all seem to have been very happy, although the clowns have gone
nowhere near the Anenome, but over the last 5 days both the Dottyback
and damsel have disappeared!
No powerheads have intakes that they
could have been sucked into, and there is no sign of them jumping out of
the tank. They all seemed well with no sign that there was any problem.
I can only assume that the Anenome has eaten them - is this possible?
<Yes. Though these fishes could have been lost in other ways (jumped
out, died and quickly dissolved...)>
If so, is there any safer fish
that I could replace them with?
<Not really particular types but it
may help to place new livestock either early in the morning, or to leave
the lights on the tank or one near the tank on overnight the first night
or two. Know that ritteri (Heteractis magnifica) will eat most any fish,
invertebrate that happens into its tentacles, and that they can/do
expand quite a bit at times... Bob Fenner>
any advice would be very
welcome,
Thanks
Ron Patmore, Re: Yellow Eye Kole...
cnidarian compatibility, Ritteri... 11/16/05
Bob,
<Carrie>
Hi thanks for the reply. I did a 10 gallon water change on
my 60 gallon, added Polyfilter, and added carbon. Here is what I really
would love from you. My ex-boss seems to think that my zoanthids are not
the problem in my tank, but another LFS who knows about corals said they
can be dangerous as far as chemical warfare on other corals.
<Yes>
I have placed an order with Live Aquaria on Saturday and I will be
getting 2 aquacultured Montiporas tomorrow at 3 p.m. (Tuesday) I want
the best conditions for them and I would like you to maybe wade through
my corals (most are frags of a couple of heads or inches) I will pull
the chemical warfare causing monsters!
I have:
*3 types of
trumpet/candy cane corals (one green, one "purple/green, and the brown
with green center each having only 3 to 4 heads)
*Yellow Polyps
(maybe a dozen on a branch)
*Several different type of the stemmed
zoanthid (4 frags have like 6 to 10 polyps each)
*Several different
type of the flat mat zoanthids (Maybe like 20 to 30 on 3 different
rocks)
*Pagoda Cup Coral (I love and doing great)
*Red Donut....
charity case, but with your help I am sure it will improve
*Colt
Coral (6 to 7")
*1 Purple fuzzy mushroom......they said it was
hairy.....not!
*2 Green hairy mushrooms (I plan to frag at each split
and keep the population to 3)
*2 Green mushrooms given to me for a
trade
*1 1/2" frag of a light blue Acropora (bleached out from stress
I assume)
*1 1" Kenya tree.....seems to not be doing good
*1 Rock
of green star polyps that wont come out.
*1 Small speck of a purple
mushroom and 1 quarter size purple mushroom
*1 HUGE and stationary
Heteractis Magnifica....LOVE this thing!!! I have 2 different species of
clowns living in it and I plan it to be my center piece in my 150 gallon
so you can't talk me out of it! Sorry, to be stubborn, but unless he
spews out poison to kill everything, I really want to keep him.
<Am
hopeful all this mis-mix can/will "growing up together" learn to get
along, tolerate each other... There is a distinct possibility that the
Heteractis magnifica will detach at some point... real trouble not if,
when it contacts other cnidarians... hopefully someone will catch this
quickly... Remember this pre-admonition>
NOW, I never really wanted
to go down the mushroom route, but I DO suspect them! I will remove
whatever I need to keep the Montipora digitata. The little frag that got
lost that I had did great, but that was BEFORE the 2 green quarter size
mushrooms. Tell me what you would suggest.
<More tanks... separating
a good deal of this life into general "soft", "hard/stony", and anemone
tanks...>
I am going into a 150 gallon next week and I have someone
that had pom pom xenia for me, but I would choose the xenia over other
items if they would harm the xenia. I looked over wet web and thought
that a chart of compatible corals would be GREAT instead of wading
through all the emails....
What do you think? Or do you know of a web
site?
<A great idea... but don't know how we might make a
multi-dimensional representation... that is, how to display the many
"this goes with this semi-okay", "but now with these"... not a simple
Cartesian plane>
My favorites I really would like to keep are one
hairy green mush, one purple fuzzy mush, my Het... mag., colt coral,
Montiporas, candy canes and trumpets, and Kenya and hopefully the
Acropora. I don't need any of the other mushrooms and would lower my Zoa
collection to my 3 "mats on rocks", seems they are not as dangerous as
the stemmed zoa's...am I right? Take Care Bob!
Carrie
<Not as
dangerous, toxic, but still so... Perhaps your employer would
like/prefer for you to gather, assemble disparate opinions re these
organism mixes from the various BB's? Bob Fenner>
Heteractis magnifica And Maroon Clown? - 12/15/05
Hi,
<<Hello>>
Can you put Premnas biaculeatus family with Heteractis
magnifica?
Jeff Keith
<<Mmm...is one of the 'better' choices I
believe. EricR>>
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