Green carpet and sandbed

[tedmc2]

I've read that carpet anemone needs to be on the sand. Are there any recommendations on how deep the sandbed should be?

 

[elegance coral]

This one is in about 1 inch of sand. I don't believe they have to be in the sand. It is a good idea though.

 

[illcssd]

Big enough picture there?

 

[55semireef]

Is that yours Elegance? BTW, why is everything so green?

 

[elegance coral]

Sorry for the big pic. I am still learning how to post pics here. I'm not sure why the pic is so green. The auto color thing on the camera may have done it because there was so much green from the anemone in the pic. I don't know though. You could say the hadoni is mine. It is my wifes but I am the one that cares for it. She just gets to enjoy it.

 

[tedmc2]

Thanks for the reply. Your, or should I say your wife's, anemone looks good and healthy.

I've read posts where an anemone has closed up and almost completly retracted into the sand. I don't think that's normal behavior but it made me think more about the depth of the sandbed while I'm planning my new tank.

 

[elegance coral]

Thanks. her anemone retracts like you are talking about but he does it between/under the rocks. He only does this when i startle him though.

 

[cb747]

I have 2 haddonis both have no sand beds. One is residing in a glass container and the other is half attached to the base of a sponge filter and the other half of his foot is attached to the botton of the barebottom tank.

 

[rssjsb]

sorry to divert, but elegance - is that a flower anemone behind your haddoni? they coexist ok?

 

[elegance coral]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9972531#post9972531 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by rssjsb
sorry to divert, but elegance - is that a flower anemone behind your haddoni? they coexist ok?

Yes it is and no they don't. I moved the flower shortly after the pic. The flower was winning that battle. I wish she would just get rid of those things.

 

[55semireef]

The flower was winning? That's hard to imagine especially because the Haddoni is like 4 times it size.

 

[elegance coral]

The hadoni was giving the flower all the room it wanted. That ment the hadoni couldn't expand like it should so I moved it. They are both fine now. I hate flower anemones!

 

[JohnnyW]

The Haddoni that I have in one of my tanks has actually taken more to the rock than the sandbed. Although the rock perch that it has taken is only about two inches higher than the sandbed, it just has anchored completely on the rock and could care less about being down in the sand. When it is open fully, it rubs on the sand occasionally, so it knows that the option is there. It's ok, both the Haddoni and the Clarkiis are happy and in love no matter where it's at. LOL. BTW, our sandbed is about 3-4 inches deep in that tank, and it just seemed to prefer the embed its foot in LR instead.

 

[rssjsb]

I've heard that flowers are really chemically aggressive. I've had a similar experience with a maxi-mini tapetum carpet. I can't keep that thing with other anemones or corals except my indestructable xenia, which grows right up to its edges and even touches it with no seeming effect.

 

[elegance coral]

All the atlantic anemones I have kept seem to have very powerful stings. The Atlantic carpet is the meanest #%*&@ I have ever seen.