Well if you put an RBTA in your tank you know they can multiply like crazy. So I got lazy and my nems ended up splitting so I had like 8 red and 1 green.
I used the anemone cannon to get them out in the past but it can be tricky. I printed up a top and bottom to make it easier to hold it in place and it was working well but removing one at a time takes too long. So reading that you can use a pump head pointed at them I came up with my new weapon
I call it the anemone extractor
It’s basically a maxi-jet 600 hooked you to some tubing and using a shutoff valve and the smaller tubing to get down to a small blast of water at the end.
You mount the maxijet in the tank. Turn it on with valve closed (so you don’t end up with a fountain in your tank) and then proceed to blast the foot with water jet. Easily lets you adjust the flow while doing it.
Got 6 of them out in around an hour or so. One gave me a hard time and I ended up tearing him a bit because his foot was pretty buried, they are cheap so I just ripped it out in the end. Stupid thing is still alive in a holder now and will probably split.
I also realized this is a nice tool for cleaning rocks and blowing crap into water column so I’m going to keep it for that too.
Cost me about 20 bucks for the maxi jet, everything else I had.
I used the anemone cannon to get them out in the past but it can be tricky. I printed up a top and bottom to make it easier to hold it in place and it was working well but removing one at a time takes too long. So reading that you can use a pump head pointed at them I came up with my new weapon
I call it the anemone extractor
It’s basically a maxi-jet 600 hooked you to some tubing and using a shutoff valve and the smaller tubing to get down to a small blast of water at the end.
You mount the maxijet in the tank. Turn it on with valve closed (so you don’t end up with a fountain in your tank) and then proceed to blast the foot with water jet. Easily lets you adjust the flow while doing it.
Got 6 of them out in around an hour or so. One gave me a hard time and I ended up tearing him a bit because his foot was pretty buried, they are cheap so I just ripped it out in the end. Stupid thing is still alive in a holder now and will probably split.
I also realized this is a nice tool for cleaning rocks and blowing crap into water column so I’m going to keep it for that too.
Cost me about 20 bucks for the maxi jet, everything else I had.