Activated carbon reactor

"Pszemol" wrote in message ...
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 :-(

This morning there are two inflated anemones - one bigger
in the old place, looks like a big letter C, second one
on a different rock about 1/3 smaller than the "parent".
Oh well...

"Pszemol" wrote on Thu, 11 Oct 2007:
This morning there are two inflated anemones - one bigger in the old place,
looks like a big letter C, second one on a different rock about 1/3 smaller
than the "parent". Oh well...

Photos?

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"Don Geddis" wrote in message ...
"Pszemol" wrote on Thu, 11 Oct 2007:
This morning there are two inflated anemones - one bigger in the old place,
looks like a big letter C, second one on a different rock about 1/3 smaller
than the "parent". Oh well...

Photos?

Sure... why not? Enjoy!

These photos were made yesterday evening around 9pm:
http://i24.tinypic.com/24v5kys.jpg
http://i24.tinypic.com/x3i9n4.jpg
http://i22.tinypic.com/mvi876.jpg
http://i24.tinypic.com/j9386f.jpg
http://i23.tinypic.com/nt89d.jpg

These were made around midnight when the anemone ring
was opened and become big letter C:
http://i23.tinypic.com/abqzd1.jpg
http://i20.tinypic.com/2cduyok.jpg
http://i23.tinypic.com/e99bbq.jpg
http://i20.tinypic.com/wsqsrm.jpg
http://i20.tinypic.com/2nsca2w.jpg
http://i24.tinypic.com/2pqmlc4.jpg

And these two a moment ago, small anemone is on the
left lower rock, not touching the overflow pilar at all:
http://i24.tinypic.com/67uufp.jpg
http://i20.tinypic.com/2ui7xno.jpg

Here are some pictures of the other anemone, 'rose' variety
mentioned in our other discussion. This one was in other,
10 gallon pico reef with two baby maroon clownfish I have
risen myself from eggs lied by the maroon pair in the main tank.

Pre injury pictures, beautiful specimen under power compacts:
http://i24.tinypic.com/1zx8nme.jpg
http://i24.tinypic.com/im077l.jpg
http://i20.tinypic.com/t7d82r.jpg
http://i23.tinypic.com/sl06yv.jpg
http://i20.tinypic.com/21omrnd.jpg
Here is the same anemone weeks after the tragic accident with
the power filter intake tube (AquaClear Mini) in the same tank
after it traveled on the other side of the tank, behind the rock,
next to the hiden behind the rock intake tube of the filter (removed).
http://i23.tinypic.com/vmvclj.jpg
http://i21.tinypic.com/4jn9kh.jpg
You can see almost whole oral disk was lacerated, only
one tentacle was left from the old oral disk - rest is regrown.
Anemone is still recovering and has a long road before it
will look as good as it looked before injury but it is already
fully healed inflating/deflating and eating normally.

How many gallons is your tank/sump?

Or should I ask, how many tanks do you have?

Just curious =)

"Pszemol" wrote in message
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"Don Geddis" wrote in message
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"Pszemol" wrote on Thu, 11 Oct 2007:
This morning there are two inflated anemones - one bigger in the old
place,
looks like a big letter C, second one on a different rock about 1/3
smaller
than the "parent". Oh well...

Photos?

Sure... why not? Enjoy!

These photos were made yesterday evening around 9pm:
http://i24.tinypic.com/24v5kys.jpg
http://i24.tinypic.com/x3i9n4.jpg
http://i22.tinypic.com/mvi876.jpg
http://i24.tinypic.com/j9386f.jpg
http://i23.tinypic.com/nt89d.jpg

These were made around midnight when the anemone ring
was opened and become big letter C:
http://i23.tinypic.com/abqzd1.jpg
http://i20.tinypic.com/2cduyok.jpg
http://i23.tinypic.com/e99bbq.jpg
http://i20.tinypic.com/wsqsrm.jpg
http://i20.tinypic.com/2nsca2w.jpg
http://i24.tinypic.com/2pqmlc4.jpg

And these two a moment ago, small anemone is on the
left lower rock, not touching the overflow pilar at all:
http://i24.tinypic.com/67uufp.jpg
http://i20.tinypic.com/2ui7xno.jpg

Here are some pictures of the other anemone, 'rose' variety
mentioned in our other discussion. This one was in other,
10 gallon pico reef with two baby maroon clownfish I have
risen myself from eggs lied by the maroon pair in the main tank.

Pre injury pictures, beautiful specimen under power compacts:
http://i24.tinypic.com/1zx8nme.jpg
http://i24.tinypic.com/im077l.jpg
http://i20.tinypic.com/t7d82r.jpg
http://i23.tinypic.com/sl06yv.jpg
http://i20.tinypic.com/21omrnd.jpg
Here is the same anemone weeks after the tragic accident with
the power filter intake tube (AquaClear Mini) in the same tank
after it traveled on the other side of the tank, behind the rock,
next to the hiden behind the rock intake tube of the filter (removed).
http://i23.tinypic.com/vmvclj.jpg
http://i21.tinypic.com/4jn9kh.jpg
You can see almost whole oral disk was lacerated, only
one tentacle was left from the old oral disk - rest is regrown.
Anemone is still recovering and has a long road before it
will look as good as it looked before injury but it is already
fully healed inflating/deflating and eating normally.

"RubenD" wrote in message t...
How many gallons is your tank/sump?

Or should I ask, how many tanks do you have?

Just curious =)

Not many gallons, really.
The brown anemone is in 58 gallons Oceanic + 10g sump.
The poor rose one is in 10 gallons pico reef.
There are two other tanks but they are more
utilitary than pretty...

On Oct 7, 9:36 am, someone wrote or was quoted in writing:
How do you put carbon to work in your reef tanks?
Now I have an idea... what if I dump the carbon loose
into the sock in the sump? The sock I am using is quite
fine to prevent carbon escaping to the sump and the
water is pretty well agitated in the sock so the carbon
will work efficiently there...
The sock lasts about a week or two before it clogs
with dirt, so I could dump the sock with used up carbon
to the garbagge and put new sock with new carbon portion.

Activated charcoal isn't my cup of tea, but that's because I'm
interested in supporting Daphnia and Moss.
I still hav charcoal on hand in case a fish comes down with something.
Then, I'd want to remove medication, right? Because all of my fish
would get the medication.

This plan with the sock makes sense to me if it's more
suitable or as suitable as the usual nylon that you can buy charcoal
in. With potted or rooted plants, I wouldn't worry about the trace
minerals being lost from the water. Those should be in the silt.

Someone might think I'm kidding about the Moss, but I hav a
Plecostomus, and it gets algae thins. I'm not sure that it will like
the substrate for moss that I'm sewing.

Trolls aren't people. They're off-topic posts with crummy langgwij
outbursts. Sometimes, they're sock puppets of seemingly normal people.
I hate it when they raise identity issues, because I know a lot about
dijital identity, and I believe it's mechanically sound.

So, the question is, would you phone someone, say someone at a pet
shop, with the same idea. And, if you did, would you ignore their
criticism and do it anyway.
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