anemone on the run

[Steeves]

I have heard of them just taking off but is it really that common? Since i added him to the tank he found a hole in the rock and has been there for the last three months. Now he is on the run. Wondering how long this will last because he is getting closer and closer to my hammer head and frogspawn.

[bassman]

It will move until it finds it's "happy place", then it will probably move again. LOL

[WhoPoopWrasse]

Mine decided to go visiting the tank until he found the Tunze 6060, I wasn't home, it died, killed everything in the tank except the clowns and my lawnmower blenny The clean-up was hell, there were bits of him everywhere! I had 75 gallons of murky grossness and the closer I got to the bottom, the more poor fish I found dead, on the casualty list were:

1 yellow tang, Sunny
1 Foxface, Foxy
1 fire goby, Alfalfa
2 Blue devil Damsels, Jack & Jill
1 coral Beauty angel, Coral

My 2 clowns were in the top corner of the tank and gasping for air so I hurried up and scooped them out and popped them in a QT that was luckily set up.
I found Mr. Chu the lawnmower blenny only when I moved a rock when the tank was almost empty. I had no idea I still had a live fish at that point cuz I had already taken out all my dead fish. He went in with the clowns for a few weeks while I re-set-up the tank.....
Bla Bla Bla, my point is, keep a close eye on him

I vowed never to have an anemone again. That was almost 2 years ago.
It's weird, I always hear about stories similar to mine but the nem always survives and nothing in the tank dies!?!? Is what happened to me a common occurence or was I just really unlucky?

[bassman]

Same thing would have happened to me if I didn't have gutter guard blocking my powerhead. Not sure why they do that. I think they think the current is going to take them to a better place.

One of my current anemones has made it's home inches away from the outlet of one of my pumps. He loves it there, tons of flow and apparently the right amount of light. It hasn't moved in months. That doesn't mean it won't though. LOL

[ponokareefer]

I had a 12 inch RBTA decide to crawl into my Koralia 3. The only thing left was a small piece of flesh blowing out the powerhead. The rest was minced and in my skimmer. I thought the regular skimmate smelled bad! None of my livestock showed any signs of stress over its death though.
All my current BTA's don't wonder into the powerheads for some reason. They will wonder within inches of them, but not into them. I guess I'm lucky!

[dsaundry]

If you have any exposed intakes...Put a sponge over them....

[Floop70]

I had one head into a Koralia powerhead too. Pics in this thread if you care to take a look. He's recovered from that and looks pretty good now, although a lot smaller! I'll try to post new pics when I get a chance.