CoralsAddiction
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Is this Haddoni? Does it look healthy? Bleached? Thanks.
Carpet Anemone ID
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clorox
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Were you looking for a Haddoni?
Reef Lounge had 2 nice healthy deep green ones about 10 days ago, one was maybe 6" the other was 8-9". Otherwise, you can check Petco in Pasadena, they always have Haddoni and cheap. You should call first at both places to avoid the trip for nothing. Now that I'm thinking about it, also Petco in Burbank had a Haddoni, but it was similarly bleached as the one in your photo.
Reef Lounge had 2 nice healthy deep green ones about 10 days ago, one was maybe 6" the other was 8-9". Otherwise, you can check Petco in Pasadena, they always have Haddoni and cheap. You should call first at both places to avoid the trip for nothing. Now that I'm thinking about it, also Petco in Burbank had a Haddoni, but it was similarly bleached as the one in your photo.
CoralsAddiction
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Thanks Alex for the info. I've been toying with an idea of getting a larger anemone for clowns but I have an SPS dominated tank. Had a rose BTA sting the crap out of my green Monti cap. So I though may be a bottom dweller like a carpet anemone would be slightly "safer bet" for corals.
CoralsAddiction
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Where should u put it? 2 options.
Option 1: left side of tank. I will move my frogspawn rocks (was one big colony, had to frag it).
Option 2
Middle of tank where my GBTA is. Will remove it when I get haddoni. GBTA is shrunken in the pic bc lights has just come in and it was popping.
BonsaiNut
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Ok here's the dead giveaway in cases like this with a slightly bleached carpet anemone.
Normally you would look at the verrucae, but they may be hard to see if the anemone is spread out. If the anemone is bleached, even brightly colored verrucae (like those of S. gigantea) may be hard to distinguish.
In this case, however, you can very clearly see the long exocoelic tentacles on the margin of the oral disk. Haddonis have them, giganteas do not. So if you see a carpet anemone, and the tentacles on the margin of the oral disk are long/short/long/short it will be a haddoni always. Gigantea tentacles on the margin of the oral disk will all be the same length.
By the way, S. tapetum don't have them either, so it is a great way to tell between baby S. haddoni and S. tapetum
Baby S. haddoni (see the exocoelic tentacles?):
S. tapetum:
Apologies to my friends at Wild Singapore, but I have helped them with anemone ID in the past so I don't think they'll mind if I use their photos
In some cases the exocoelic tentacles will even be a different color, which makes your job REALLY easy If you look carefully at the anemone that is the subject of this thread, you can see how they appear to be a slightly different color (lighter/whiter). You will NEVER see this on a gigantea.
Normally you would look at the verrucae, but they may be hard to see if the anemone is spread out. If the anemone is bleached, even brightly colored verrucae (like those of S. gigantea) may be hard to distinguish.
In this case, however, you can very clearly see the long exocoelic tentacles on the margin of the oral disk. Haddonis have them, giganteas do not. So if you see a carpet anemone, and the tentacles on the margin of the oral disk are long/short/long/short it will be a haddoni always. Gigantea tentacles on the margin of the oral disk will all be the same length.
By the way, S. tapetum don't have them either, so it is a great way to tell between baby S. haddoni and S. tapetum
Baby S. haddoni (see the exocoelic tentacles?):
S. tapetum:
Apologies to my friends at Wild Singapore, but I have helped them with anemone ID in the past so I don't think they'll mind if I use their photos
In some cases the exocoelic tentacles will even be a different color, which makes your job REALLY easy
If you look carefully at the anemone that is the subject of this thread, you can see how they appear to be a slightly different color (lighter/whiter). You will NEVER see this on a gigantea.
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CoralsAddiction
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Ok here's the dead giveaway in cases like this with a slightly bleached carpet anemone.
Normally you would look at the verrucae, but they may be hard to see if the anemone is spread out. If the anemone is bleached, even brightly colored verrucae (like those of S. gigantea) may be hard to distinguish.
In this case, however, you can very clearly see the long exocoelic tentacles on the margin of the oral disk. Haddonis have them, giganteas do not. So if you see a carpet anemone, and the tentacles on the margin of the oral disk are long/short/long/short it will be a haddoni always. Gigantea tentacles on the margin of the oral disk will all be the same length.
By the way, S. tapetum don't have them either, so it is a great way to tell between baby S. haddoni and S. tapetum
Baby S. haddoni (see the exocoelic tentacles?):
S. tapetum:
Apologies to my friends at Wild Singapore, but I have helped them with anemone ID in the past so I don't think they'll mind if I use their photos
In some cases the exocoelic tentacles will even be a different color, which makes your job REALLY easy
Thanks for the explanation
I bought a different but also bleached Haddoni
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OrionN
Moved on
Here it is. Starting a new thread for it
