Carpet Question

Tracey2

Tracey2

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I am lucky enough to have 2 spots for the carpet anemone I have acclimatizing right now. I would prefer him in the upper tank which is a 270g sps dominated tank with 400W MH lighting. My concern in the 270g is my beloved achillies tang, 3 regal angels that get along together and my other beauties being eaten, how much of a concern should this be?
The lower tank has a deaper sand bed and T5 lighting, not many fish, my carpet would be viewable here but not as nice. What would you all suggest?
 
I never drip acclimate, I just put them in. They don't seem to mind. They have to self acclimate when they hit the tank anyway. IMO of course

And I think it'll like the metal halides better. In fact I would not put it under T5 lighting unless you have a bunch of bulbs. And I'm sure your tanga will be fine but there will be risk.
 
Thanks for your reply. At the store they had him in a salinity of 1.022 so I have been bringing him up to 1.025 he's almost there. He is large and 2 of my regal angels are small to medium, how much of a risk?
 
Carpet anemones are well known for eating fish. Curious fish are risky. Also weak or stressed fish may not be able to resist the pull from the strong anemones. Ive see my large sailfin get caught in a haddoni but he was strong enough to pull him self out. Got stung pretty bad but he was fine.

Point im trying to make is that yes its risky. But larger fish IME are not as risky. This also depends on the size of your anemone. Ive seen pictures of carpets eating yellow tangs and powder blues.

Not trying to scare you but your concerns are valid.
 
My little blue sided wrasse brushes my gigs on occasion without more than a white spot or two appearing. But it stays clear of the haddoni. One of which took out my lawn mower blenny. Haddoni are killers, my gigs only claimed a very weakened vertralis anthias.
 
Well, he is in the tank and all of my fish are still swimming but my copperband is not the sharpest tool in the shed, she continues to pick at a rock right next to him with her tail way too close. The regals swim by kind of tilting away from the anemone as they go with their eyes on the anemone, my achillies and hippo tang were not happy with the anemone and both flagged their tails at it and the hippo did feel how sticky the anemone is with his tail, I hope he has learned his lesson.

God I hope you are right and my fish are big enough to look after themselves but it is a large carpet too, maybe if I keep it well fed?

Gary, it is a purple haddoni, what do you think? I could still move it down to the lower tank but he seems happy where he is.
 
Ciclid, I have a lawnmower too, maybe I should try to catch him, I am also concerned about my hawk fish. The store also had a nice gig but it was brown so I picked the haddoni for colour and because I thougt they were easier to care for, I didn't know they were more of a risk to my fish.
 
I would be concerned for your hawkfish. But at 270g I'm not to sure I would worry about the blenny. He has lots of room to avoid the haddoni. My mistake was that I had a 16" haddoni in a 30g. IMO haddoni are way easier and trouble free. Aside for their penchant of eating fish.
 
So the carpet has been in the main display now for a week, no missing fish yet, knock on wood.

He looks very happy but has decided his place in the tank is at the back behind my large cave where we can hardly see him, it looks like his foot is attached to or under a large boulder back there. On day 2 he was actually in the cave and even after I put more flow into the cave he stayed for a day or two but now is out in the light again and has been there for few days.

I have read many times that an anemone will go where they want but I was hoping if I added more flow to the back of the tank and carefully picked up his boulder and moved it where I want him that he would either move with the boulder or at least not feel so secure back there and move forward. Any suggestions?
 
I would try shading your Haddoni back there. Force it to go where the light is.
If it's dark in the back rockwork it will eventually slide around to the front where you'll have the lights shining.
 
Thank You. I have him in the dark with a powerhead on him, I hope I am not hurting him. He seems to move at night so hopefully he will move forward tonight.
 
Be careful with the powerhead. You want to make him uncomfortable but you dont want him flapping like a towel hanging out of a car window.
 
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