Carpet anemone question

[MarlinHooker]

Been looking for a carpet anemone for quite a while and my LFS finally got in a nice 6"-7" specimen that I picked up a couple of weeks ago. I initially located in an area of a curved vertical rock wall where I dug out the sand bed so it could attach itself to the bottom of the tank and then also be against the wall. Light is moderate and flow is low to moderate in that area. About 4 days ago during the night it moved to the other side of that curved wall and it now in the back corner of the tank and has attached itself to the bottom of the outside of this same rock wall. Light and flow is definitely lower here than the first place. It seems to be perfectly happy, fully open and accepting meaty foods. Don't ask me HOW it got there ...

It appears it has moved because it wanted lower flow/light than where I had it originally? Is this typical for them?

 

[MarlinHooker]

Here's a pic from back in Jan just to show locations. Red circle is where I placed him & the green circle is where he moved to ...

 

[bradleym]

I am assuming you mean a Haddoni carpet. If so, they will often move to the lowest flow they can find, sometimes at the cost of lighting. Fortunately, they are not as light hungry as the other carpet anemones, so it may do well there.

 

[Daniel62]

Yes the really prefer low flow. and usually if you change nothing, they will stay where the choose over where we try and put them If you could give him a little more light where he is then that would make him really happy.

Good luck

 

[MarlinHooker]

Agreed. Once I add the 3rd AI Sol that should help a lot