Carpet Anemone Questions

[kris4647]

I grant you an appeal.

There are no hard and fast rules for carpets. You seem to take good care of your tank and there isnt any reason why you couldn't try the right sized Haddoni. Provided you are ready for a few changes. From what I see. your anem will proly seek out rockwork for its foot so that btm right corner is going to be occupied. The problem is your rockwork makes a overhang shadow there I think, you may have to revisit that. Perhaps bring the rockwork out at the btm so the carpet can drop its foot in it.

The concerns..
Yes they can attain very large sizes. Same can be said very many of the things we keep.

Yes they can move. Your goal here is to provide an environment in whicch it can be happy. Low-medium flow with fairly intense lighting and it just may stay put.

Yes they can eat your fish. I've always had large tanks and maybe thats why I've never had this problem. This may be a concern for you, thats one thing I cant give you advice on in a 40 gallon. I dont think it will eat "all your fish" though, just out of instinct they seem to steer clear of them.

No one here can say "it won't work". The potential problems you face are overgrowing your tank and eating a few fish. I would say again that overgrowth is a problem endemic to our hobby so I wouldnt count it.

Best of Luck........

As far alternatives. An LTA or a Seabae would look good in that corner. If you look hard enough you can find some really cool colors in both. I have a Red LTA and Purple

 

[2dawghouse]

LTA's would be a better choice, cause they are less picky, they also are (for the most part) sand dwellers, they dont grow as big as fast.

Sebae's, IMO I wouldnt do a sebae unless it is a species tank, I had one with a Ritteri, and it moved about for 4 weeks untill it got comfortable, very picky species. I thought my Ritteri was finicky about it environment, no where near what the sebae was.

 

[Toddrtrex]

An LTA might be a better choice, but going to have to increase the depth of the sand bed. (( if there is even one, really hard to tell from the picture )).

 

[2dawghouse]

kris4647, is correct in that no one on this board can say for certain that it wont work. We are simply giving you our opinion from our experiences using your tank as the system of choice.

And IMO your tank is very well kept and to nice for me to risk having a nem in it. If it was up to me, I would get another tank, set it up right beside your 40. Acquire another lighting system identical to what you are using but in dual form (a light for your coral tank, and the other for the nem tank). Tie both tanks together in your sump and run carbon to remove any toxins that may cross contaminate between tanks.

That way it would be alot safer, and easier to maintain, and it allows you more room for system adjustments.

 

[TJ_Burton]

Well first and foremost I need to try and get the RBT anemones out...
Any Ideas?

I have a bad feeling I am going to have to remove the rock work to get them out. I tried the ice cube on the foot, and it moved behind the rock into a crevice and still is long enough to open up into the same area... This also caused it to split. So now I have two of them.

 

[rkelman]

lol try and get rid of one and end up with 2.. You could try and point a powerhead at it.. Can you get a credit card under the foot to peel it off safely? None of the regular methods have ever worked for me either...

 

[kris4647]

Finger nail !!Get underneath the foot and then it usually comes off pretty easy. Catch em moving and its even easier. The foot bulges and looses a bit of color on one side are good signs of locomotion .

You may have to be a little rough. As you've seen they are very resiliant.

 

[TJ_Burton]

I will give it a good go tonight; see if I can't get those two buggers out of there.

This is actually the 2nd time it has split. Kind of neat that it does that.

 

[TJ_Burton]

No luck as of yet getting the big rbta out. The baby moved to the back glass so it came out easy as pie.

I am still doing research on carpets (since I started thinking about one, I can't seem to stop from at least learning as much as I can about them).

Pizza Anemone's (Cryptodendrum adhaesivum) - any opinions? My LFS has a phenomenal looking lime green/purple blotched PA that I was eyeballing.

 

[inachu]

I would start a new thread with the same topic line but I found out those get deleted thinking its some sort of thread competition.

So instead I'll ask here. I am new to carpets also.

So here are my questions.

A. How to tell a healthy carpet to a sick or hungry carpet at the fish store?

B. Can they easily move about as bubble tips and float around?

C. For those carpets who eat your fish why not just let them finnish it instead of pulling the half digested fish out of the tank?


D. Do they eat the same thing as bubble tips?

 

[elegance coral]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13037272#post13037272 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by inachu
I would start a new thread with the same topic line but I found out those get deleted thinking its some sort of thread competition.

So instead I'll ask here. I am new to carpets also.

So here are my questions.

A. How to tell a healthy carpet to a sick or hungry carpet at the fish store?

B. Can they easily move about as bubble tips and float around?

C. For those carpets who eat your fish why not just let them finnish it instead of pulling the half digested fish out of the tank?


D. Do they eat the same thing as bubble tips?

A. The mouth is probably the easiest way to judge the health of a carpet at the store. Haddoni at least. The mouth should be closed nice and tight. Can't tell much by the tentacles. Next would be physical damage.

B. They can move just as easily, but it is much easier to give them the right environment to keep them in one spot. Rock sand interface, low flow, and good lighting will keep a Haddoni in one spot.

C. I always allow my carpet, or any other anemone that catches a fish, to Finnish it's meal. If it's a large fish chances are that the anemone will regurgitate a half digested fish. At that point I remove it from the tank.

D. Yes.

 

[TJ_Burton]

So is anyone familiar with Pizza Carpets?

 

[Toddrtrex]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13048574#post13048574 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by TJ_Burton
So is anyone familiar with Pizza Carpets?

Cryptodendrum adhaesivum -- the only thing I know about them is that they are only a natural host for Clarkiis, and are suppose to be really sticky. Plus I think they are pretty hard to come by.

 

[TJ_Burton]

Well, I decided to give a carpet a shot. If and when it outgrows, I will start a species tank for it, however I think that it is going to take a while before that happens.

Here it is:

Looking pretty darn healthy, and attached to the rock within seconds. I'll give it a few days to a week before attempting to feed it.

Hope the clown finds it!

 

[Toddrtrex]

Wow, that is really great looking.

Great, now giving me ideas for yet another tank.

 

[TJ_Burton]

Yeah, compared to most of the pictures I have seen, this is a really well colored Pizza.

I think it is a little bleached - not badly, but I expect it to darken up a bit.

 

[Slakker]

I would second that, it should darken up some. Looks really healthy though, and a really unique coloration/pattern.

I gotta start prodding at my LFS to get in some decent anemones one of these days...only things reliably available around me are half dead condy's and aiptasia

 

[kris4647]

Thats really cool looking.

They normally dont have body folds like that. Usually sorta flat like a uhhh pizza?

I would've bought that too.

 

[TJ_Burton]

I wouldn't be surprised if the body folds went away as it settled in and inflated all the way.

I am happy either way.

 

[Grunt]

Good luck, hope it does well.