Carpet Anemone Developed.. Stripes?

[Jeremy.XIII]

So up until last night, my carpet anemone that I rescued from a life of disaster at the local PetCo had been perfectly fine sitting in his spot on top of the reef. Which I found weird since carpets are naturally sand dwellers. Anyways, yesterday afternoon he started to slip through the rocks like melting Jell-O until he finally fell through to the sand. I come home for lunch today to see him larger than ever cozied up to this rock (wrapped around it more like) fully extended. That was weird enough but what got me is that it has seemingly developed some kind of faint stripes..? I don't think it's bleaching because the mouth is fully closed and it moved *away* from the lighting. Does anybody have any clue as to what's going on? Oh and the part that looks kind of wrapped up is a piece of silverside I just fed it. Tank parameters are all good to go.. Really I'm wondering more about this striping.
The first picture is when I first got the nem, the last three are as of 2 hours ago.

 

[D-Nak]

Striping is fairly common with haddoni, especially green ones. The stripes typically go away as the nem settles in. As you mentioned, Haddoni are not rock dwellers (unless they are extremely small), so it's no surprise that your nem moved to the sandbed but, prior to that your nem was probably acclimating to your tank's water and lighting parameters. Give it a couple of weeks -- if the nem isn't sick -- the stripes will probably be gone.

 

[Jeremy.XIII]

Okay, I'll keep an eye on it. It's my first carpet so I'm still trying to get things in order. It seems to finally actually eat the silversides I give it instead of releasing it a few minutes later. I've heard good and bad about feeding silversides but it's just about the only thing it'll actually eat.

 

[Amoo]

Man I know you said you have heard the good and the bad about silversides, but the number of "my nem is sick" threads I have seen only to find out the person had been feeding silversides is really really not worth the risk in my opinion.

I remember your rescue thread, and it would suck to see you find such a great deal on a nice nem to have it go downhill due to something you could have easily prevented. Remember they don't NEED to be fed, the light and water does that. So if you're going feed it by choice, may as well error on the side of caution and feed grocery store frozens.

 

[Jeremy.XIII]

I had been leaning away from feeding it silvers, even came to the point of almost telling my wife to throw the things out.. Your post is pretty persuasive though. I think I'll try and find something else he'll eat. I'd hate to lose him too, actually becoming the centerpiece for this tank.

 

[ThRoewer]

Almost all of the tan/green haddoni have these stripes in the wild, it's normal.
I actually think it is way nicer than the uniform color forms.

 

[ThRoewer]

Source: http://www.wetwebmedia.com/ca/volume_6/volume_6_3/capranem.html

 

[Jeremy.XIII]

Carpet Anemone Developed.. Stripes?

Almost all of the tan/green haddoni have these stripes in the wild, it's normal.

I actually think it is way nicer than the uniform color forms.

I actually like it better, too. Thanks for that picture as well! That nem looks awesome.

 

[D-Nak]

I wouldn't try to feed it until it's fully acclimated, meaning not moving at all, and fully expanded.

 

[Jeremy.XIII]

I thought it wasn't going to move, honestly. But I'll give it some more time. It still seems to deflate at least once a day but it never stays that way for long.

 

[ThRoewer]

I thought it wasn't going to move, honestly. But I'll give it some more time. It still seems to deflate at least once a day but it never stays that way for long.

What do you mean with "deflate"? Some contraction is normal but real deflating would indicate a serious problem.