Carpet ID please

[beachbreak]

Can I get an id on if the is a haddoni or gig. Came from wholesalers as a haddoni but Im not 100% positive. I can take more pix if necessary - just let me know what you need to see.

Thanks!

 

[this is me]

Gigantea. Absolutely postive.
And a nice one. How long have you had it?

 

[OrionN]

Where it it, make it more likely to be a Haddoni, or one of these Hybrid anemone. Tentacles looks can be either. Close picture of the tentacles and of the column needed for positive ID. If the foot is pastel in color then it is a Gigantea and white/tan, then it is a Haddoni.

 

[beachbreak]

That's what I thought too but my LFS insists its haddoni. He got a monstrous red haddoni with the classic beaded look to it and even still thought it was haddoni.

This positive ID makes me super excited. It's the anemone I had been looking for but gave up finding a few months back. To answer the question; this anemone has been in my system for 5 days. I am in love with this thing and assuming it does well - am going to completely re-do my tank around it. So far it has attached to the rock at the rock/sand meeting, is extremely sticky, has a tight mouth and stays inflated day and night. Fingers crossed....

Anything else I should be doing? I blew some mysis on it last night and it definitely grabbed it.

Thanks!

 

[beachbreak]

Will get some additional close up photos this afternoon when lights come on

 

[OrionN]

Once healthy, larger chunks of food is what Haddoni and Gigantea preferred. They grow very quickly if you feed them so be careful on feeding so you won't grow out of room

 

[beachbreak]

Found this in my photo library. It's a little closer -

Orion - I just didnt want to over do it on the first feeding. I feed my other nems in the tank once a week or so and will probably adapt the same schedule with this one.

 

[Pinkskunk]

Orion - I just didnt want to over do it on the first feeding. I feed my other nems in the tank once a week or so and will probably adapt the same schedule with this one.

I would not feed it for about a month if i were you. color looks great. Based on the tentacles i'd say likely its a gig. if not then it is an EXTREMELY healthy haddoni because the elongated tentacles from the haddoni carpet indicates it is in superb health, given you had it for only 5 days i would say its unlikely display such superb health (not saying a newly acquired carpet cant be that healthy but very unlikely due to the stress they had to go through during shipping....etc)

My 2cents. :eek1:

 

[Pinkskunk]

this carpet shown here can very easily mistaken as a haddoni but then it turned out to be 100% purple gigantea, a newly acquired gig from Nick. and by it's location, one would even more convinced its a haddoni.

http://www.pbase.com/nicksreef/image/158282031/original.jpg

BTW, Congratulations !!! such a beauty and in great health. strive to provide it the best you possibly can.

 

[beachbreak]

Will do Pinkskunk! Thanks for the confidence!

For the record - I dug out a little hole at the base of the rock and put the anemone in the hole. I cant tell if he is in the sand or on the rock - but I wanted to give it both options.

 

[this is me]

The gig I just got that was posted by Pinkskunk in the post above has its foot on a large base rock even though the oral disc rest on the sand.

 

[beachbreak]

Sorry about the horrid photos. I've got a 2K dollar camera that in my hands is no better than a point and shoot...

 

[this is me]

There's no doubt that is a gigantea. The tentacles on a haddoni would never be this elongated.

 

[OrionN]

It is a gigantea. Unkli Nick, I think it is a Gigantea becasue the tentacles tapper to a point. Haddoni tentacles are more blunted at the tip.

 

[DasCamel]

Nice find/luck!

 

[joshky]

Sorry about the horrid photos. I've got a 2K dollar camera that in my hands is no better than a point and shoot...

I would love to own a point and shoot camera that took pictures like yours. They may not win you any awards, but they are by no means bad photos. I was telling my brother yesterday how jealous I was of the quality.