clarkii sent to sump

[jacob_poly]

My clarkii clown had been frustrating me over the last few weeks. Everytime I feed my anemone, it interfered and tried to overhelp thus making the anemone lose the food. All my previous attempts to distract him and hold him at bay didn't work anymore. He was not falling for any of it. So today I decided I had had enough. My LTA is pretty big and its almost impossible to get my clown out once hes lodged himself inside. So what I did was to immerse a bucket into my main tank and float the LTA into it. Sure enough the clarkii came along sealed within the anemone. Once in the little bubket, I was able to get the clown out of the LTA and return the LTA to the tank. The clarkii has been sent away to the sump. Will trade him in for something else soon.
Feel a little bad that I had to do that.....but sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands for the better of others.

 

[snailheave]

you know, if you have enough light, you probably don't even need to feed the anemone.

 

[jacob_poly]

I think I have sufficinet light. On the side that the LTA resides I have almost 8 W/G. But I still want to make sure the LTA gets regularly fed(I have had it for only 6 weeks). If it were a smaller anemone I wouldn't worry so much but this ones like 8-9 inches across so I just feel more comfortable if its fed. And the times that I had managed to separate the anemone from the host, its always accepted and eaten what feed it. But with the clown its different. The LTA is a little slow getting food into its mouth so the clarkii loses its patience and starts shifting the food from tentacle to tentacle, not giving hte LTA any time to try and work the food to its mouth. And finally the LTA gives up on it and lets the food go. And I am wondering if the clarkii is stressing hte anemone a little too. I appreciate all the house-keeping it does by getting trash off of the LTA. But at times I think its too violent with it.....