Anemone struck..

[silverfish]

Arrrgh..

I brought an anemone yesterday and place it in a small tank to be transfered to my bigger tank.. problem is now its struck to the glass surface and refuse to let go? How can I pull it off the surface other than dousing it with hot water..

Can I drain all the water out ?

thanks

[spong3bob]

struck.... struck to the glass by wad? wad u use to hit it to the glass with??

[chrislwp]

You can use a piece of plastic like credit card or phone card to scratch it out of your glass surface.. Henry fromML did that.

[hongqixian]

You can use a piece of plastic like credit card or phone card to scratch it out of your glass surface.. Henry fromML did that.

The keyword is gently

[spong3bob]

did he mean STUCK????i thot he said STRUCK..

[hongqixian]

did he mean STUCK????i thot he said STRUCK..

he did. typo i guess. but if it was struck to the surface he'd be scraping it off with a knife

[silverfish]

Yo dude..

Ya.. sorry for the typo.. its stuck..

I placed a piece of small liverock in the tank and waited for it to crawl onto it.. then I take it out.. looks ok now..

thanks : )

[Golden Tooth]

So is it out now?

[Golden Tooth]

Actually u can use PH to blow at the feet of the anemone.

[Clownfish]

how bout fragging it like a mushroom

no lah... joking onli

[silverfish]

So far so good for the anemone : ) Thanks.. Unfortunately, one of my tomato clown fish died after it swims into it.. stung?..

[hongqixian]

So far so good for the anemone : ) Thanks.. Unfortunately, one of my tomato clown fish died after it swims into it.. stung?..

It depends on what type of anemone. Clownfish don't usually get killed by swimming into uncompatible anemones or maybe the anemone had not totally gotten used to the clownfish yet. If the clownfish swam into something like a really stinging tube anemone, it would just swim away. Deaths do happen though. Just not that often.

[FuEl]

It depends on what type of anemone. Clownfish don't usually get killed by swimming into uncompatible anemones or maybe the anemone had not totally gotten used to the clownfish yet. If the clownfish swam into something like a really stinging tube anemone, it would just swim away. Deaths do happen though. Just not that often.

You meant the clownfish has not gotten used to the anemone.

[hongqixian]

You meant the clownfish has not gotten used to the anemone.

Not really. It's the anemone with the stings calling the shots hehe

[FuEl]

Eh? I tot the clownfish is supposed to coat the anemone with the anemones mucus so that the anemone will recognise the clownfish as one of its own 'tentacles'? It's portrayed in 'Finding Nemo' too...

[silverfish]

Apparently not.. : ( Now my "nemo" has been flushed into the toilet bowl, as depicted in the show..

[silverfish]

Btw, my anemone is aways upside down ... ? with the mouth part facing the sand.. is it hungry?

.. I keep seeing its backside.

[jazzben81]

u flush ur nemo down the toilet bowl????

oh god...

[hongqixian]

Eh? I tot the clownfish is supposed to coat the anemone with the anemones mucus so that the anemone will recognise the clownfish as one of its own 'tentacles'? It's portrayed in 'Finding Nemo' too...

sorry for the late reply. haven't been checking the forums awhile.

anyway, the clownfish is trying to "cloak" itself from the anemone by smearing itself with the anemone's mucus. I believe the anemone's nematocysts are not triggered when the tentacles touch plastic. They only trigger when they are in contact with proteinaceous material, is that right? And the tentacles will not trigger when in contact with each other (imagine the anemone wasting it's own stings on itself)

so therefore, the clownfish makes itself invisible to the stings by smearing itself with anemone mucus like u said. the anemone doesn't sting itself. and so, if it cannot effectively make itself invisible (didn't coat itself with mucus properly or sth,) the anemone will be stinging it. hence my sentence that the anemone hasn't gotten used to the clown (maybe gotten used isn't the right phrase)

P.S. is this one of the theories how clownfish are able to live in anemones or has it been proven? i'm not really up to date.