Nem invaded bubble coral ... needs eviction ASAP

[CMMorgan]

I've been down with Covid and I basically ignored my tank for two months. Generally speaking, bad things happened. I have a lot of window scrubbing to do. I got an invasion of cyano and bubble algae. I went after that with Chemiclean and a 20% water change. While I was dealing with that, I noticed that the size of my bubble coral had greatly diminished. (It sits in the back corner. out off flow ... I typically see the bubble tops from the front.) Upon investigating, I realized that a purple ice tip anemone had split off and rooted itself inside my bubble coral.
My bubble coral is not fairing well. I tried to get the sucker out and it just went inside. I tried jetting water directly at the nem with a narrow tip coral feeder, no joy. I fear that this thing is going to kill my most prized and sentimental coral. I've attached a picture with first morning light, no tank lights on yet.

Any ideas on how to evict this little squatter?

 

[Timfish]

I'd use some bone cutters to carefully break away the skeleton between the remaining bubble coral tissue and the anemone

 

[blaxsun]

I'd use some bone cutters to carefully break away the skeleton between the remaining bubble coral tissue and the anemone

Yeah, this is probably the best option at this point.

 

[CMMorgan]

So basically break the bubble coral skeleton in two? (One section with the squatter nem and free the rest of the nem)

 

[blaxsun]

So basically break the bubble coral skeleton in two? (One section with the squatter nem and free the rest of the nem)

Basically. That part of the bubble coral is probably dead at this point anyway and unlikely to ever recover.

 

[vetteguy53081]

I've been down with Covid and I basically ignored my tank for two months. Generally speaking, bad things happened. I have a lot of window scrubbing to do. I got an invasion of cyano and bubble algae. I went after that with Chemiclean and a 20% water change. While I was dealing with that, I noticed that the size of my bubble coral had greatly diminished. (It sits in the back corner. out off flow ... I typically see the bubble tops from the front.) Upon investigating, I realized that a purple ice tip anemone had split off and rooted itself inside my bubble coral.
My bubble coral is not fairing well. I tried to get the sucker out and it just went inside. I tried jetting water directly at the nem with a narrow tip coral feeder, no joy. I fear that this thing is going to kill my most prized and sentimental coral. I've attached a picture with first morning light, no tank lights on yet. View attachment 2739293
Any ideas on how to evict this little squatter?

Break section off or apply either flow at it in which it will move or place ice cube on it and it will release itself

 

[CMMorgan]

Break section off or apply either flow at it in which it will move or place ice cube on it and it will release itself

Thanks! I'll try the ice first. If it still won't move, I'll try to break it.

 

[CMMorgan]

After jetting our party crasher a dozen or so times with water right out of the freezer and placing some very enticing rubble nearby, we have an eviction. Thank you @vetteguy53081 for the creative solution. There appears to be some remaining flesh on the skeleton. Time will tell in that area recovers or not. Looks like I will need to do some rearranging to get the ever dividing nems away from the bubble. For now, I'll bathe the bubble in a bit more light and check my parameters. It turns out that I lost my hippo tang overnight, too. Oh the joys of being a reefer. Now I know why so many reefers are "reefers". As my daughter says, having a reef tank is great until it's not.
Thank you also to @Timfish and @blaxsun .

 

[ilikefish69]

This environment is so wonderfully helpful