Carpet questions (Carpet Moving Pic) Is he healthy looking?

[55semireef]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9078007#post9078007 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by o2zen
Sad to say but he did not make it. I returned him to the LFS last night in a last ditch effort to get him help. It was too late.

Here is what I found out from one of the guys there and I wanted to run it past you all. Salinity drip method of adding an anemone to your tank. Example is that on the night I picked up my hammerhead, which is the night they talked me into this carpet for my clowns, I had my water tested which was perfect. Everything was in the spot it was supposed to be or better. Salinity was 1.024 but the anemone tank at the shop was at 1.022 and when I introduced my carpet to my tank the salinity difference migth have caused the carpet (one of the more fragile ones) to fill with a higher salinity level than it was used to and go into shock.

I am not sure if I understand this correctly but thats about the gist of it. He went on at great length about anemones and seemed to understand them very well. He was sorry the other sales person talked me into the carpet as he said it was a great one and he would not have suggested a carpet as a first host anemone for me, let alone one when my tank was so young.

A .02 salinity change is not going to cause an anemone to die that quick. I didn't even acclimate my blue Haddoni when I got it and it did perfect that following day and even ate for me too that day. In the wild, Haddonis are sometimes exposed to air at low tide and can be rained on during low tide. A haddoni can easily adapt to salinity changes because they sure have to in the wild or else they would die. I don't think it had anything to do with your water parameters because if it did, it would be alive right now. Chances are, you just bought a very unhealthy carpet. Yeah it might look good in the lfs but how do you know that it looked horrible right before you got there and then inflated up as you got there? The best way to buy an anemone and to make sure its healthy is to visit an lfs, observe the anemone, and come back a couple of days later and check to see if its still healthy. Buying at first glance is a very risky investment.

BTW, a Haddoni is actually one of the more forgiving anemones out there. Now another carpet called the S. Gigantea is an EXTREMELY difficult anemone to keep alive for even a week. So chances are, what probably killed it is your young tank and because it was unhealthy to begin with.

 

[o2zen]

Thanks guys.

 

[Newreeflady]

I'm not an expert, but i've owned other anemones and I don't think it is wise to try feeding all this food if it isn't eating. Just let it be, stop touching, prying, moving and trying to feed it. You're just stressing it and polluting its water.

GL, keep us posted!
-A

 

[highquality]

I do not think it was probably an unhealthy anemone. sorry, it could have been , but there were many things wrong here . Lighting, water quality- no skimmer , moving, .. You did go and read and try your best it sounds like. sorry it didnt make it. there is a good article in the FAQ thread.

 

[o2zen]

It was a bad batch of carpets it turns out. No idea why or what made them a bad batch but of 20 carpets sold by the LFS one of the guys last night told me a bunch came back in dead within a week of being sold.

The heater issue did not help, it stressed the Cuc, and the Cuc stressed the system.

Lighting - after everything I had read and all the people I have talked to I am not sure that was an issue at all.

Water quality - tested great until the end.

A learning experience for sure but I wish my carpet had made it. I miss him.