Disappearing Anemone

[micki]

Ok, I "had" an anemone in my 40 gallon tank downstairs.  The tank was getting taken over with macro. I have ignored it for a while now due to so much going on here.  I saw the anemone a few days ago. It was hige!  This morning I couldn't find it.  I took all the LR out except the ones that were too beg for me to do on my own.  For those I looked them over turned them upside down and checked them out to see if the anemone was in there and nothing.  I can't find it anywhere!   Any ideas???

[micki]

No one has any thoughts on this??? 

[bigfalcon36]

couldve climbed out.  could've went through an overflow...check all your places.

[micki]

Randy and I have bot looked everywhere. It's no where to be found...  Has this happened to anyone else?

[Emily]

I had a carpet mushroom that was a pretty decent size for my tiny tank disappear on me.  Still don't know where it is.

[micki]

That's too weird!

[Slicktrax]

it could have melted away.  it only takes a couple hours for them to turn to ooze when they die.

[micki]

But 1.  What would have caused it and 2.  Wouldn't there have been some bad effect in the tank from something that large dying? 

[Slicktrax]

1. hard to tell without the carcass.  could have been old age, disease, not enough light or any of millions of other reasons.  2.  maybe.  i would guess that as large as your system is, it would have been very hard to detect any changes.

[micki]

I thought about my system being big enough not to show illeffects, but, the tank that it is in is a very slow flowing tank.  I would think there could be an amonia spike at least in that part of the system. I have a few fish and some crabs and snails in that tank and they all seem to be fine.   

[Slicktrax]

the crabs probably made short work of it, assuming it died.

[micki]

Possibly...