Any updates on the carpet from PhishyBusiness ?

trueblackpercula said:
well that sure is interesting im starting to see that when my tank get's up to 82 deg's she sure looks better.Im going to see if I can maintain it at that for a week just to see the difference.get back to you on this .This sure could be the missing link to what everybody is looking for as to keeping this beautifully anemone alive.

P.S. how long have you had your gigantea for?
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9+ years
 
trueblackpercula said:
well that sure is interesting im starting to see that when my tank get's up to 82 deg's she sure looks better.Im going to see if I can maintain it at that for a week just to see the difference.get back to you on this .This sure could be the missing link to what everybody is looking for as to keeping this beautifully anemone alive.

P.S. how long have you had your gigantea for?
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I would guess that the average temp of the waters where thes anemonies are collected from average 86 degrees.. as with most of the other animals we keep average 84.. why do we keep tanks at 80? Damn I wish I could find aquarium frontiers nov 1997. a great article (dr Shimek) on temp and salinity was there..
 
So I still have one gigantea left. It seems to be doing ok but now my Magnifica has shrunk down to 1/3 of its size. This thing has done nothing but grow UNTIL I decided that I could house a gigantea in the same tank. I have done nothing different and my water tests great.

I have never believed in chemical warfare before but maybe it is happening.

If the magnifica doesn't return to its original splendor soon, I will be forced to remove the gigantea.

True Black Percula, please post the pertinent parts of that article, temp & salinity I would be very interested.

Minh, does your Magnifica go through a cycle where it just freaks you out at how small it has gotten? Over 2 months and mine has never shrunk down this small.
Thanks

Todd
 
Sad update.
One week after receive him, my S. gigantea is no more. He is a shriver-up and fallen to the sand.
This is it for me. No more S. gigantea unless I see a healthy one at LFS (extreemly unlikely here in Corpus Christi, Texas.) No more MO anemone for me.
Minh
 
No more MO anemone for me.

How do you think the anemone gets to your LFS in the first place ? I doubt a trip MO is too much for the anemone consider it survive a trip from South East Asian to get here.
 
SohalTang said:
No more MO anemone for me.

How do you think the anemone gets to your LFS in the first place ? I doubt a trip MO is too much for the anemone consider it survive a trip from South East Asian to get here.
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I only state what I would and would not do. No more no less and no judgment on my self or anybody who do the same thing. I feel sad that these beautiful anemones died in my tank. I am not sure that they were doomed before they get to my tank or not. I still want to keep one but will not spend the money to get one unless I know that it is healthy. I don't want them to died in my tank. It make me feel very sad to see it, and because they are expensive and I don't have money to throw away.
That is all. Don't read into it any more that what it is.
I am always the reefer that will study an issue, and if I think that I have reasonable chance at success, I will try it. I am not callous about animal's life under my care, but I do not think that these animal's lives are as valuable as human.
Minh
 
I only said you can't avoid MO. The only advantage of buying LFS is that you can actually observe the anemone before buying it. But then on MO, you can see pix.
 
I am new to carpet type anemones and I have done quite a bit of research before buying one 4 weeks ago. I kept bubbles without a problem over a year.

It is a grayish color hoddoni I beleive with white stripes. From my aboservations so far, these guys love temps over 81+. I think whenever my temp dropped below 81, it shrivels up.

Also I thought I lost him a week ago when he was 1/4 of its normal size. I guess he was just starving, I force fed him 2 big pieces of silverside and 3 hours after he ate them the transformation was increadible. He has never looked better during the day. Contrary to bubles, I think carpets need a lot of high nutrition food. I have been feeding him 2 big chunks of silversides with intestines and everything else everyday, and he keeps looking better and better. I think feeding,temperature, and high light has been the big contrubuting factor to its comeback so far. I am not saying that it will be ok for sure but so far it is gaining its strength back.

I keep mine under 250 watts of 10 K halides on sand bed at a low to medium flow area and he would initially shrival up during the day and expand at night.I think this is a sign that he is starving, this is when I started feeding him twice everyday. One thing you need to watch when you feed twice though to make sure he eats them and if it is not eaten food needs to be removed, because that many silversides will faul the water fast.

I will keep you posted on the progress, and I will post some pictures. Oh also there is a rose anemone in the same tank, and it is growing huge.
 
Cagri,
Good luck with your haddoni, they are usually much hardier than the giagntea's referred to in this thread. So, you should have some good success!
Steve
 
I realize haddonis are much hardier but they are even challanging when unhealthy to start with. I just fed mine again at lunch time, big silverside is gone again.

Thanks.
 
cagri said:
It is a grayish color hoddoni I beleive with white stripes. I will keep you posted on the progress, and I will post some pictures.
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S. haddoni is a very different species than S. gigantea. I wish people didn't even describe them as carpet anemones since they are so different and yet people might mistakenly believe that somehow if they can keep S. haddoni alive they can keep S. gigantea. S. gigantea is far and away the most difficult Pacific clown anemone to keep. Its care requirements are not fully understood and it is fundamentally a different creature than S. haddoni. I would not draw any parallels between the two species whatsoever.
 
Sorry I didnt see an email for this thread....

I'm sorry to say that both anenome's past away within a month. Something is missing in the equation somewhere. Its tantalizing that some have success with them but overall I think acquiring them at this point is a questionable proposition.

The speciman I bought locally was the healthiest I've seen
[ Closed mouth firm body etc.] and it died prior to the blue. I have all the goodies, flow,light,skimming,pristine water,high alkalinity 82 degree temp etc.

I'm going to have to file this in the Goniopora/Elegance catagory until something changes. I've seen similar things with Ritt's just not as severe. It could be the collection/transport process.
 
Bummer! I have often thought of getting another (more colorful) gigantae.. maybe I should just be happy having the one I do. OTOH, I'd almost like to recreate conditions that I have now, to see if I could have the same luck.
 
Well im very sorry about that as well. Im going to post what i have been doing for the past month . maybe everyone will be able to follow my foot steps. give me a couple of days to put it all to gether.
Michael
 
Rod,

Thats the kind of experiment we would need to find out the missing link so to speak. I know you have a very specialized set-up. Bonsai posted a beautiful pic as well.

Still dont know if its worth the effort, I'm starting to wonder what is driving the price of these things up with a 90% mortality rate [As represented here at least]. I've seen the Tranship and Wholesale lists and they arent really marked up on that end.

I have a Ritteri, two sebaes, five roses, Clams, SPS. Everything thriving, except for the carpets [One thing I really wanted to keep.] Oh Well.........
 
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