Blue Carpet Anenome

I wouldn't count out his anemone yet. It is eating, and when it colors up, maybe it will be a orange/multicolor gigantea!!!

What shop did you get it from?
 
i got it from vivid aquariums. they have a website at www.vividquariums.com. Lately i been doing my shopping at Ocean Pet in northridge. By the way i read this from a website: "S. gigantea appreciate strong random flow, with surge. The flow in the tank should be able to lift the oral disc slightly, although the flow should not be direct." How do i accomplish this? i dont understand what is meant by random flow. What is surge?
 
A surge would basically be dumping a bunch of water into the tank at once. Odds are that it won't be practical for you right now. Here is a link I found after doing a quick search.

http://www.breedersregistry.org/Reprints/SeaScope/v13_sumr/surge.htm

As for random flow -- having two or more powerheads in the tank. Having them turn on/off at different times -- with some overlapping. Will help if they are pointed at each other, which will cause random flow. In my 75 I have 4 total powerheads, two on the left side, the other two on the right side. The left side is on for 15 minutes, while the right side is off. The times overlap for a minute. One of the powerheads on each side is angeled towards the front glass.
 
I have 4 powerheads as well. two left, two right. how should i position mine so that it will be effective without putting a timer or wave maker on it? thanks
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12715670#post12715670 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by mikedachamp
i got it from vivid aquariums. they have a website at www.vividquariums.com. Lately i been doing my shopping at Ocean Pet in northridge. By the way i read this from a website: "S. gigantea appreciate strong random flow, with surge. The flow in the tank should be able to lift the oral disc slightly, although the flow should not be direct." How do i accomplish this? i dont understand what is meant by random flow. What is surge?
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$200 is a steal at vivid....lol. They are a pricey shop!

Direct your powerheads directly at each other so that their flow crashes into each other above the anemone, this should create a nice surge!
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12717387#post12717387 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by E.J. Coral
Direct your powerheads directly at each other so that their flow crashes into each other above the anemone, this should create a nice surge!
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FWIW, that's how I have mine set up. The powerheads are doubled up at each spot to create a wider band of flow. I also have the powerheads on a wavemaker which means the point at where the currents meet is never the same spot twice, sometimes moving left, sometimes moving right. It's a low tech solution but it's really quite effective.

Also an other interesting observation is that by doubling up the powerheads, the suction created by the powerheads creates pretty good flow too. Ie., for lack of a better way to describe it, water is almost "falling upwards" towards the powerheads (I have the powerheads near the surface to get some good surface agitation as well), which is creating a localized area of nearly laminar flow. I think the technical explanation is that it's more of a gyre effect, but basically, it gives really good flow this way.
 
I had a buddy that had a blue haddoni that would not stay put.
It ended up sticking to the rock/sand and then would move over and over again. It ate the entire time it was in the tank and was sticky.Finally it made its last move floated around the tank and got stuck to a mj mod. If he starts running try to kinda block the sides of your pumps so he does not get sucked up!
 
I was very close into purchasing from liveaquaria.com. seems like a very informative site, and the people are semi knowledgeable. i say this because they didnt have answers to a few of my questions. anyways, the purchase didnt go through because they didnt have 90% of the fish i wanted in stock. Well im going to give that powerhead idea a try. cross the powerheads togethers, maybe ill see more movement. also on the gigantea update, i keep placing it on the highest point in my tank, but it keeps moving to the buttom on the sand. why would it do that if it needs light? lack of random flow? temp? thanks in advance
 
blue carpet looks horrible. im assuming my tank isnt ready for something with a care level as difficult as that. thanks everyone for your help
 
its droopy and decomposing. like inside out, tissue coming off. i think its dead. i just realized there is some black patch looking color on my blonde naso tang. LFS says it might be a bacterial infection. has anyone ever experienced this? sorry if im on the wrong forum topic, but you guys here are extremely helpful
 
Well...is the melting anemone still in yur tank? Have you ran carbon through your filter? Exchanged the carbon filter packs? If not, that is why your tang is like that. Or it swam really fast into a large, sharp decorative piece of coral, just like a clown tang that I had.
 
the anemone is probably dead. you should probably take it out. do a big water change and run a new batchof carbon and change it in a couple of days.

Carl
 
I would have to say that I have had horrible luck with Tangs. All of them have died do to their actions. The first one that I had, a baby blue hippo tang, ran into my BTA and started going into convulsions...the second was a sailfin tang, it swam next to the filter intake and was suctioned up against it all night long (I was sleeping and did not know it was happening)...third was a clown tang, and he sprinted into a sharp decorative coral, died of internal bleeding...fourth was a bigger blue hippo tang, swam into my longspine waspfish (:lol:)...and last but not least, a yellow tang. It friggin bit my sea hare and the sea hare spewd out all of it's poison into the tank. The tang and a foxface suffered from that one.
 
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