pmb@donk.UUCP (pmb) (01/17/90)
Yesterday I came home and discovered that an anemone had somehow strayed into the skimmer box on my trickle filter. (It's one of the ones that has a siphon tube back to the prefilter box, and has "teeth" that stick up out of the water.) The anemone appeared to have been perforated by the teeth, and was stuck halfway into the siphon tube. I immediately shut the filter off. A little while later I came back, and he was sitting on the bottom of the skimmer cup looking happy as a clam (or an anemone, as the case may be.) Today he seems none the worse for the experience. And are anemones usually this resilient? (I haven't the foggiest what kind he is ... he's about 4 or 5 inches across, and has long purple tentacles.) I'd like to come up with some way to keep this from happening again, but I don't know what to do. For a while I had a strainer on my siphon, because I had a nudibranch who liked to wind up in the prefilter. I took it off after he squished himself in the strainer. Everything that would keep out critters seems like it would also clog up fairly easily. Ideas? -- Intel has plenty of it's own opinions. It doesn't care what I do with mine. pmb@hosehead.hf.intel.com or patti@bucket (take your pick) ...or just yell "Hey, Patti!" Then take a number and wait your turn.