any ideas? any solutions?

[Ron Popeil]

so i know several people have kept haddonis and magnifica anemones together in the same tank with out any problems.

however, i do have problems and i havent been able to identify why.

my magnificas are going on three years now, and yet any carpet ive attempted fails within two weeks. ive tried carpets from three different retailers, and the anemones have all been situated in their tanks between a day and four weeks. ive tried the anemones in my refugium and in the main display. i would think i have a pretty good eye for a healthy anemone, so im thinking a damaged or poor specimen choice isnt fully to blame...

my main theory is that the magnificas are producing something inhibitory in the water. and it must be specifically targeting carpets because i have bubble tips (thats split) in the same tank as the magnificas, and ive had long tenticles in the same system...with no problems at all.

ive tried large water changes, running carbon, wetter skimmate.

the carpets just fail to bury, and then fail to maintain an inflated tight mouthed appearance.

a new anemone tank system is being set up next week, and a haddoni is still planned as a centerpiece for the 45 gallon cube, but it will be connected to the same system as the magnifica 60 gallon. and the fact that the carpet i just purchased three days ago is already showing signs of decline is leading to me to believe even in seperate tanks through a common system, im bound to have problems.

are there any suggestions for acclimating a haddoni carpet? selecting? getting it to bury its foot? removing potential contaminants from the magnificas? any ideas on what causes a new carpets demise over allegedly much more sensitive anemones surviving?

thanks for your help.

 

[ezhoops]

you could try using a UV sterilizer that seems to work with some people in dissolving the chemical war you have going on. Worth a try.

 

[Sk8r]

I'm betting you're right. When I started my previous reef, I had a carpet and clowns in a practically raw reef: it grew like a bandit, quadrupled its size, and finally had to be sold off, because it took half a 100 gallon tank. I never, afterward, had such luck with an anemone, and finally sold off the clowns as well, because I could just not get them to settle where they didn't cause problems. I wonder how much of the watery memory of that carpet lingered.

 

[Ron Popeil]

well, i plan on three consecutive 50 gallon water changes. and then a ton of carbon. perhaps that will change things a bit.

as for the UV sterilizer, id like to try it, but the cost is a limiting factor at the moment.

any other suggestions?