New BTA in pieces?!?!?

[i found nemo]

I got a GBTA from Rit yesterday. It had attached nicely to a rock before I went to bed, I stayed up just to make sure. I got up and noticed that a small piece of the foot was being sucked into the intake, and looked closer and there are pieces of it ALL over the tank?! :shout: My water params are perfect, I just did a 30% water change. All of my other corals and fish are fine as well.

Now my question is since I JUST did a water change and with this thing obvioiusly dead, do I need to go changing the water again, or just try and fish the pieces out the best I can, or both?!

 

[lifestudent]

I'd run some carbon for a day or two and then remove that carbon.

As for the anmones, I'd leave the anemone fragments alone unless they are obviously showing decaying or dissolving or smell (all signs of dying). Some of the fragments may survive, expeciallly those with a part of the mouth and pedal disc.

 

[rolo65]

yeah...havent actually seen it but heard about someone putting a nem in a blender and most of the small pieces still lived....never know with those things...

 

[i found nemo]

Should I at least try and get the green tips out or could they possibly live? This thing is chopped up pretty darn bad, I almost didn't see the pieces because they are so small. I am just worried about it fowling my tank out and killing everything Any advice on the best way to run carbon? All I have is a phosban reactor.

 

[rolo65]

yeah some of the smaller pieces like that i would.....you can run carbon in any high flow area....it does work better in a reactor....im pretty sure you can use it in a phosban....but not positive....(never done that myself considering i dont have any reactors at all)

 

[i found nemo]

I just spent over an hour taking every piece out that I could find. I am too much of a worrier to just leave everything in there. I would not be able to sleep at night knowing that my tank might crash lol.

I called Rit and unless I am mistaken, he said to run the carbon in a low flow area? I want to make sure I do this right before even attempting, so if I could get a lot more input that would be great!

 

[gwhiz]

If you've got a phosban reactor (and a pump to run it) I'd run carbon there. Fill it about 1/3 with carbon and run the output into a bucket until the water clears. I currently have two Phosban reactors with GFO in one and carbon in the other.