Blue carpet problem?

sufunk

sufunk

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As some of you know from my recent thread, i just got this guy Saturday and he was doing good. Today when i got home he was more shrivelled up than i've seen him before and over the last few hours has gotten even worse.

He is getting good flow and i have 3x150mh's with 4x96pc's. I tested my water and:
temp-80
nitrates-0
ammonia-0
dkh-9.0
salinity-1.026

I don't know what the deal is. Is this just a phase or id something wrong??? He is still attached to the rock and seems sticky but is shriveling more and more:confused: Evrything else in the tank, sps, lps, softies, fish and inverts all seem fine??

What could be wrong???

afew hours ago
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just now
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I aggree with Dawman,it may be trying to move to a more suitable spot.I'm surprised that it hasn't buried it's foot more under the sand,at the base of the rock.It has only been a few days though,so just give it time.Also I have come home a few times & found one of my carpets "missing".They literally bury their entire body under the sand & then fully inflate a few hours later.So don't freak out the first time you can't find your carpet.HTH
 
That is part of the acclimation process. Basically he is expelling the water he came in with and replacing it with your tanks water. This is always a scary time. There isn't much you can do but just wait. Usually they come back to normal by the end of the day. It is something that needs to happen, but it can also be the start of a downward spiral of inflating and deflating from which the anemone won't recover. That is why it's a scary time. Many times giganteas come to you with minor infections that become a problem when the anemone goes thought the stress of shipping and holding. It is why giganteas are considered to be one of the most difficult amemone species to keep.
Sometimes repositioning a powerhead to give him a little more current will help carry away the expelled water.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10501721#post10501721 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by phender
That is part of the acclimation process. Basically he is expelling the water he came in with and replacing it with your tanks water. This is always a scary time. There isn't much you can do but just wait. Usually they come back to normal by the end of the day. It is something that needs to happen, but it can also be the start of a downward spiral of inflating and deflating from which the anemone won't recover. That is why it's a scary time. Many times giganteas come to you with minor infections that become a problem when the anemone goes thought the stress of shipping and holding. It is why giganteas are considered to be one of the most difficult amemone species to keep.
Sometimes repositioning a powerhead to give him a little more current will help carry away the expelled water.
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Thanks guys.

Phender, he does seem to be doing better. He is much more inflated although he is gaping a little. Not too bad but more than i'd like to see.

Hopefully, he'll be fine. I moved one Tunze a little so he's getting a some more flow.

Anything else i can do? Should i try to feed him a little tonight or wait for him to finish "expelling" or whatever?
 
Thanks phender.

Nice bernese phender. My wife shows our swissie. Here's his puppy pic
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10501873#post10501873 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by sufunk
Thanks phender.

Nice bernese phender. My wife shows our swissie. Here's his puppy pic
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Very cute! We meet up with a lot of Swissy people in our berner club functions. My wife shows our dogs in conformation(I'm the kennel help and groomer). I work them in obedience and drafting trials.

If you go to my little red house and then delete the /Anemones/Anemones.html from the URL, there are pics of our dogs.
 
Well, my carpet seems to be doing alot better today BUT as dawman suggested, it appears he may be MOVING:mad:


Here's a pic of the base of his foot just now. It was against the sand bed but you can see he is moving up the rock slowly
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Here's a view from further back. You can see the little cleared area i made for him to his right that apparently he doesn't like! You can see the corals that it looks like i'm gonna have to move pretty soon
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Even further back showing the big picture of corals and rocks i potentially have to move around! GRRRRR
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On the plus side, my carpet is lookin' pretty good again, isn't he?
 
Ok, i'm getting confused. After looking good all day yesterday, almost immediately after the halides went off he shrank down to even smaller than ive ever seen him and stayed that way all night and morning:confused:

Now that the lights are back on, he looks ok but is kind of gaping again. I dont have a ton of experience with anemones so not sure if this amount of gaping is something to worry about yet?

Also, is it normal for him to be shrinking so small and pathetic as soon as the halides go off? Even under the actinics he is so small and shrivelled, i'm getting a little worried.

Here he is right now, is this too much gaping? should i be worried yet? Also, now looking at these pics compared to yesterday, he seems to have lost alot of his tentacles near his mouth, doesn't it?
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It looks like a gigantea and not a carpet. I have had carpets in the past get bigger when the lights go out and die. If they schrivel at night that is a good sign. It sure looks good.
 
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10517390#post10517390 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by kevorkian
It looks like a gigantea and not a carpet. I have had carpets in the past get bigger when the lights go out and die. If they schrivel at night that is a good sign. It sure looks good.
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A Gigantea is a type of carpet. ;)

Why would it be a good sign if they shrivel at night? Please explain...
 
The way mine shrivels, i can't imagine it's good. It literally shrivels down to about 1/8th its size and just looks pathetic. My anemones in my smaller tank shrink a little after lights out but nothing like this.

There is no way any clowns could be hosting in mine at night the wy it is shrivelled.

Is this just nornal acclimation or should i be worried?
 
my lta goes from about 12" across to a ball about the size of my fist every night has done that for the past 6 months and he is as happy as a clam, or wait anenome.... Sure is beautiful would love to find one of those...
 
Ok, heres what i mean. My halides went off at 9pm and the anemone was looking ok, just like the last pic. Within 5 minutes off the halides going off, it looks like this. I know the pic quality isnt the greatest but you can see how much it shrivelled up and is gaping much more than it was literally 5 minutes ago???? This is what happens every night:confused:

What the heck is going on????
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best close up i could get of the gaping mouth
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I haven`t had much experience with carpets yet but my LTAs and BTAs and RBTA basically do the same and all but the RBTA has done so for years . I just got the RBTA and does the same thing . You have to remember anemones thrive and feed off light . They are taking a break when the lights are out and shrink down , some shrink more than others .
 
It doesn't look horrible yet, but having had a few giganteas in my day, I would be a little worried. Loss of tentacle density is not a good thing, and deflating everyday is not great either.
Unfortunately, there is not a lot you can do at this point but keep your fingers crossed.

The only thing I can think of is to rearrange your reef a little and move him up directly under a Metal Halide. At this point, I don't think its the lighting that's the problem. I think he probably has a bacterial infection.

You can try the antibiotic method outlined in this thread from one of the Senior Aquarists at a public aquarium in New York.
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=628314&perpage=25&pagenumber=1
 
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