"Pszemol" wrote in message ...
"KurtG" wrote in message ...
I can't imagine using it in a filter sock as you discovered.

Looks like I will pay penalty for experimenting... :-(
Not all animals are doing good with this black dust on them.
Some probably ingested these particles with water... sad thing.

Well, the anemone, my pride, looks like it is spliting.

It started gaping couple of days ago and I noticed that
the bottom of its foot is visible through mouth opening.
The foot had small hole going through his body to the
substrate. Anemone continues to eat normally and stays
inflated with bubbles on the tips of the tentacles -healthy
look. Except this hole in his mouth :-) Fish were interesting
for couple of days in his guts accessible by gaping mouth...
I saw male and female clown picking on the guts.

Today afternoon I noticed the anemone slightly moved from
his usual position to the left, little smaller, and the gaping
of the mouth is quite dramatic now - about 2" diameter.
You could see base rock naked through his mouth whole
afternoon.

Now, just after midnight I see with the flashlight that
anemone is already not full circle - it is in shape of letter C.
One part is draging one direction than the rest of anemone.

Anemone stays inflated with bubbles on its tentacles tips
sporting healthy look during the whole process.

There were two major differences in the tank environment
which could be assumed a cause for splitting:

1. Change of intensity of lights new power compacts tubes
replaced over year old ones with brightly visible change.

2. Accident with the activated carbon dust...

I am not happy even if the anemone survives this event
and I will have two of them :-) I would preffered one
big anemone than two small ones in my tank. Especially that
the part of it is already moving in the unknown direction...

Will see what happens next :-(