"Steve" wrote in message ...
It's an old problem I know, just got a lovely light green bubble tip
anemone, but he cause trouble on his first night in the tank.
Currently he is sitting bang in the middle of a bunch of pulse coral
heads, and you can tell the coral is not at all pleased with the
situation. I like anemones, but have never had much luck with them,
losing them in powerheads previously, currently we have none in this
tank! Fishing him out from amongst the coral would I think do more
damage than any it's suffered already. I just hope he moves on again.
Anybody got any training tips for these things - or do they just go
where they will regardless?

Steve

I've had a BTA in a 20gal tank for quite a few years. It's very happy and
healthy but moves every so often. No matter how stable you make things, they
are going to move sooner or later. I think by removing the hermit crabs and urchin
I had in there helped it to stay in place a bit more. I noticed them crawling on it
once in a while, and that would make it retract into the rocks. I figured it would
be less stressful for it. If you want to remove the anemone, keep checking with
a flashlight very early in the morning. This seems to be the time when they move, and
a lot of times when they are in this process, they are blown up to twice their size, and
are completely detached so you can easily just lift them from the water. To make them
move you can try aimimg a powerhead at them, but I've found sometimes this tends
to make them grab on even harder.