2nd attempt at carpet, this time red!
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sufunk
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Hey guys,
Thanks for the responses and condolences.
I'm really at a loss for what happened. I certainly respect your guys opinions(you definitely know more than me about anemones) but i really dont think the pwc's were the problem. Perhaps it may have helped but my best guess is either: 1)they were not healthy and wouldn't have made it regardless or 2)there is something in my water i cant test, be it chemical fighting or something else.
I dont think it was an unhealthy anemone. I'm sure it was stressed and not in perfect health but not bad enough for it to die so fast
If it was chemical fighting or something else in the water, i wonder if pwc would fix that unless i was doing a fairly large change every week. I dont know much about it but i would guess that if whatever is in the water was bad enough to kill the anemone that fast, no amount of 5-10% water changes would have solved the problem. Maybe that would have bought me a few weeks but something killed these nems and i cant believe that it was a lack of trace elements.
Then again, i could be 100% wrong and the pwc's ( or lack thereof) was the problem. DANGGIT, i was all prepared to never get another one for my anemone killing machine but now you guys have let the thought creep in my head that maybe i could do it different and be successful.
Don't worry, i still won't get one, at least not for a while. Maybe after 6-12 months, i might take another stab and hope that whatever was going on in my tank has stopped and try doing weekly pwc's. Either way, it's probably out of my hands since i was waiting for this anemone for months and wont see another like it anytime soon at my lfs. Then again, now that i cant get one, probably every damn time i go there they will have some incredible carpet anemone TAUNTING me.
Again, thanks for all the help and suggestions. Please, if you want, continue to posts ideas or opinions in this thread of anything you can think of that i didnt do, did wrong, didnt test for, etc. If nothing else, i'd really like to at least understand what happened.
Thanks for the responses and condolences.
I'm really at a loss for what happened. I certainly respect your guys opinions(you definitely know more than me about anemones) but i really dont think the pwc's were the problem. Perhaps it may have helped but my best guess is either: 1)they were not healthy and wouldn't have made it regardless or 2)there is something in my water i cant test, be it chemical fighting or something else.
I dont think it was an unhealthy anemone. I'm sure it was stressed and not in perfect health but not bad enough for it to die so fast
If it was chemical fighting or something else in the water, i wonder if pwc would fix that unless i was doing a fairly large change every week. I dont know much about it but i would guess that if whatever is in the water was bad enough to kill the anemone that fast, no amount of 5-10% water changes would have solved the problem. Maybe that would have bought me a few weeks but something killed these nems and i cant believe that it was a lack of trace elements.
Then again, i could be 100% wrong and the pwc's ( or lack thereof) was the problem. DANGGIT, i was all prepared to never get another one for my anemone killing machine but now you guys have let the thought creep in my head that maybe i could do it different and be successful.
Don't worry, i still won't get one, at least not for a while. Maybe after 6-12 months, i might take another stab and hope that whatever was going on in my tank has stopped and try doing weekly pwc's. Either way, it's probably out of my hands since i was waiting for this anemone for months and wont see another like it anytime soon at my lfs. Then again, now that i cant get one, probably every damn time i go there they will have some incredible carpet anemone TAUNTING me.
Again, thanks for all the help and suggestions. Please, if you want, continue to posts ideas or opinions in this thread of anything you can think of that i didnt do, did wrong, didnt test for, etc. If nothing else, i'd really like to at least understand what happened.
Glad to hear you are using this as a good learning experience ( well that doesn't make sense cause we don't know why they died but you get what I mean lol).
Why don't you wait 6 months (like you said) upgrade your lighting a little, maybe tryout the weekly 25% pwc every week for the next 6 months (
) and try it out with a haddoni as they seem to be easier then gigantaea.
I know if it was me, I wouldn't give up. If those carpets just died cause they were poorly shipped or acclimated incorrectly at the store or something then they would of died on anyone. I'd give it another try. I don't surrender.
Besides you know you'll be thinking about it everytime you look at your tank now. Good luck.
Why don't you wait 6 months (like you said) upgrade your lighting a little, maybe tryout the weekly 25% pwc every week for the next 6 months (
) and try it out with a haddoni as they seem to be easier then gigantaea.I know if it was me, I wouldn't give up. If those carpets just died cause they were poorly shipped or acclimated incorrectly at the store or something then they would of died on anyone. I'd give it another try. I don't surrender.
Besides you know you'll be thinking about it everytime you look at your tank now. Good luck.
hope you get a good deal on a healthy specimen soon
