Anemone injury

[danmhippo]

My purple tipped sebae (h. malu) tentacles was sucked into the maxijet. Luckily, there is a small screen to stop the whole body being sucked in. I removed the screen and freed the sebae from the powerhead.

Here is the problem. The anemone is doing fine now, all opened up. The filter screen is still attached to its body, It's all tangled with the anemone. The tangled part of the anemone is about 1/8 of the total anemone size. The anemone mouth is unaffected. What should I do with the screen? Should I leave it and let the anemone be? Or should I try to cut it up in pieces? Will the anemone eventually free its tentacles from the filter screen?

I am afraid if I try to remove the screen now, it will cause more injury to the anemone.

 

[Mouse]

Damn jimmy. Erm.... i would try and get it off, JMO. Slowly does it, you know the score. My Ritteri got stuck in the PH once or twice, mind you it was over a foot across so he was a big guy. Hope it pulls through for you.

 

[Anonymous]

I think you should remove it as well. But as stated above,remove it very slowly. If you notice any distress immediately stop.

 

[newreefman1]

I have had this happen 2 times with my green carpet anemone. Haddoni.

Ironically enough, it was with a maxijet too so I can relate 100%. I had the same worry. I basically had to rip the anemone from the powerhead(through the screen). WHen anemones get injured on their basal disk(that what its called?) lol the top portion, they generally can heal themselves assuming they are healthy. The cause for concern is if their foot gets injured as they cannot repair this.
Mine was torn almost in half after removing him and he regenerated in a months time. As mentioned, this happened 2 times and both times he grew right back and now is bigger than ever.
If its possible, remove it without harm but if theres no way, at least in my circumstances, the anemone healed itself. I try to keep my anemone WAY away from PH's now though

GOOD LUCK!!!!!

 

[Anonymous]

I'm going to disagree with the other advice posted in this thread. If it's just entangled with the screen and not the impeller, just leave the anemone with the screen (detached from the powerhead) and it will extricate itself, probably over the span of a few days. I've seen it happen before. Why risk further injury when the anemone should be able to handle it on it's own?

I'm sure you know this already, but sponges on powerhead intakes in a tank with an anemone are a good idea. I use'em on the maxijets on the tank with my haddoni. Aquarium Systems makes them, but they can be hard to locate. IIRC, I finally tracked some down at Pet Warehouse.

 

[Mouse]

Well if Anenomies can do that id leave it. Seem's the virtue of patience has come true once more.

 

[Anemone]

I'm with Charles on this. The first time I had an anemone (BTA) get caught up in a minijet, I took off the screen and used wire cutters to cut/break the plastic screen material. Worked okay. But since that time I've had a few more overflow teeth and powerhead accidents, and now I just turn off the powerhead (or scoop the anemone parts back through the overflow teeth) and allow the anemone to take care of itself. The anemone has the ability to completely deflate its tentacles and pull them through the screen without your help - and it would probably cause less incidental damage to allow the anemone to do it. If it hasn't improved in a few days, you could always do an extraction then, but I bet the screen will be floating around the tank by then.

Good luck,

Kevin