Anemone spawning, what to do!?!?!?!?

[CarmenH]

Just before lights out tonight, I looked at my tank and it was cloudy. On closer observation, my bta was shooting out clouds of milky liquid. From the online descriptions, it sounds like he was spawning. I set up a my marineland cannister with the micron filter, and threw on an aquaclear with carbon, but I just did a water change on my other tank and hadn't made up another batch of sw yet so I can't do a WC until later tonight or tomorrow (the water temp is low).
Any other suggestions?
My chalice was sliming like crazy but it may have just been because all the messing around to set up the filters was right near him... And the nem is now soooo deflated!

 

[Clownfishfan]

Use as much carbon as u can until you can do a LARGE WATER CHANGE! They can crash tanks!

 

[sasquatch]

done all you can short of water changes, what happened to cause this? an anem spawn is almost always a stress related issue

 

[PSU4ME]

+1^, you wanna try to clean up the water as best you can........the downside of anenomes

 

[Clownfishfan]

Get out as much water as u can and when you get more sw fill and repeat.

 

[CarmenH]

No idea what might have caused it, he's been doing really fantastically great recently. Will add more carbon. SW is mixing...

 

[BLADEYAMAHA]

If he's been doing really good, that's probably why...

 

[CarmenH]

The water's already cleared up. Love that Magnum micron filter. Not gonna stop with the clean up but clear is good, yes?

 

[CarmenH]

Any problem with nuking water a bit at a time in a clean glass measuring cup and dumping it back in the mixing tub to speed up the warming?

 

[Clownfishfan]

That sounds like a good idea! Right?

 

[Funlad3]

The water might evaporate in the microwave, raising salinity. Also not a good idea to be heating random salts. You know, boom... Or at least sometimes. Toss an incandescent over it and it'll heat up in a hurry!

 

[jedi82knight]

The water might evaporate in the microwave, raising salinity. Also not a good idea to be heating random salts. You know, boom... Or at least sometimes. Toss an incandescent over it and it'll heat up in a hurry!

What he said

 

[CarmenH]

Damn I hope he's okay...he's my favorite thing in the tank...

 

[Clownfishfan]

Good point! How much water do you have and what size tank is it ?

 

[Clownfishfan]

He doesn't look too terrible.

 

[PSU4ME]

fill up water bottles with hot water from the sink......drop them in (closed) and that will help warm it up

 

[CarmenH]

That was before. He looked like that 3 hours ago. This is him now

He doesn't look too terrible.

 

[CarmenH]

Good idea, will do...

fill up water bottles with hot water from the sink......drop them in (closed) and that will help warm it up

It's a 90, I've got about 30g of sw almost ready...

Good point! How much water do you have and what size tank is it ?

 

[Clownfishfan]

Put some in a pot over the stove on low with a lid a thermometer , get it hot enough then mix with the rest of the r
Fresh sw . So that way there's not to much evap, less salt swing , and heTs rest of the water faster .

 

[Clownfishfan]

Oh , oi your in trouble . What lights do you have? Remember it doesn't need to be perfect a 90 is a decent size. Nice clarkii! What temp does it need to be? You can also take the heater out of the tank and put it in the fresh sw.