Help me identify this carpet, please.

Glindac

Glindac

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This starts on a sad note, my rose anemone of 12 years got sucked through the strainer and into my barracuda closed loop pump. It was a complete mess and nothing else was harmed but I do hate the anemone decided to move during the night when my tank was taped up for the house to be painted. I have now found a red carpet anemone after a couple of months of looking. He is beautiful and in my sump. Which kind is this carpet? I do not want to risk losing any of my fish, i have had most of them as long as I have had my anemone, so i do not want them harmed. I also don't want my jigsaw eaten by placing an anemone in the tank I am not sure of. This thing is about 10" in diameter and beautiful. I hope the pics are good enough to identify, i will take better pics if I need to. The foot is currently on the wall if the sump and not the sand.

Thank you all for your help.

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I was afraid you were going to say that. You are kind, he is actually prettier than the picture, He is new as of today so i can not get a good piture of him. The main fish i am worried about is my helfricth firefish (spelling) and my mandarin goby I saved from death many years back. The other fish i have will be scared away from the anemone by the clowns, but my mandarin may be in danger, I am really torn on my decision to place him into my main tank. The helfrich stays at the top of the tank, but my mandarin may stumble into it. I want to keep it, but torn, if you or someone has one of these in a display with mandarins, i would love to hear about this experence. I begged my contact for a while before he was able to find a red one, not sure why, but they seem hard to get. have you had smaller fish with yours?
 
Looks like hadonni to me as well. I'm not sure any other carpet will be significantly safer for your other fish.
 
I was told to leave lunar lights on if you got them so the fish will be able to see the carpet. I haven't lost anything to mine, but I only have a Yellow watchman goby thats always on the bottom.
 
This is what I am wanting to hear, people who have successfully kept them in community tanks. My tank is quite full and I am going to clear the way for this anemone if others have done the same without them eating all their fish, I have saved most of my fish from death due to various reasons with pet stores, ading something that will eat them would suck. Most of my fish are larger, the mandarin and hefrith firefish being the smallest. Can they actually eat fish greater than 2"? I heard BTA can eat fish too but never saw this happen in my own tank, he was a model citizen and in a very packed tank. you guys are being a huge help to me on this and I do appreciate the help and advice. Like I said he is in the sump right now and believe it or not he just ate some mysis, and this was the day he was shipped to the store and I pick him up in the bag so he wouldn;t have to acclimate twice, and came in a day late, actually quite amazing, i think.
 
Some people have been lucky, but there is no way you can protect any of your other fish from a haddoni that big. To trust it with a helfricth firefish would be crazy in my opinion. I have tried having mean clownfish and nightlights. Nothing has worked for very long. I have lost tangs in the 4-5" range, adult dwarf angels, the list goes on and on. Small preditors like basslets, pseudochromis and hawkfish seem not to blunder into them very often, but if I had one that I was attached to, there would be no way I would introduce a haddoni carpet to the tank.
 
Even large fish will get either eatten or kill by haddoni carpet. Even if the fish got away, it will just died agter got stung by a carpet.
 
That just plain ole sucks. Such a beautiful thing, I am leaning towards a huge "no go" on this baby. It is a shame he has to be so violent. I will have to stick to the BTA and let this baby go to a good anemone tank.

Thanks for the input, I just can not take the risk of losing one of my fish.
 
my gigantea killed an anthias and i THINK damaged a kole tang in which he eventually died. But ive had a sixline for about 8 months with it. Not worth the risk in my opinion
 
I kept a spawning pair of Mandarinfish with a BTA and LTA for years with no problem.
The same two fish only lasted a week with a Haddon's anemone.
Your Firefish would be a very expensive loss.
 
You guys are awesome, as always. I have decided not to place it into my tank. I will stick with the baby BTA I have now (the size of a golf ball, cute but growing slowly), and see if the store will take this fella back. I should have done a tad more reading on the fish eating aspect, I was not real concerned with the care of this animal but never even thought about it possibly eating fish until a friend said something about it. Again, that sucks, these things are beautiful indeed and my clowns would have had a ball in their new mansion :) I have a pair of wattanabai angels, a huge mystery I raised from a small baby, my helfrich, and many more common fish but nice fish that I would hate to murder. Thanks for all your help with this, you have some some poor little fisheys lives.
 
They took the anemone back and refunded my money so that was awesome. I think the owner was going to keep it. He never saw it out of the bag, when he saw it he flipped :) Thanks for all your help, i will keep feeding my tiny bubbletip in hopes it will grow fast enough for my clowns to host in.
 
Is there any other anemone good for a community tank that clowns like and just as pretty as the carpet and bubble tip?
 
He emailed me after I posted and said it was to big for his tank. He is quite the speciman, about 12" maybe bigger but he has nice folds which tightens him up a tad. He does have him in the selling forum, maybe you can email him and see if it is still available. I didn't have the time for selling him and he gave me my money back so I was happy, more money to spend on crazy reef stuff :), i just want it going to a good home, it would have to be a big tank, and be feed, he is an absulute pig! Some clownfish out there is going to be very happy.
 
Well I've had my teal carpet for 4 days now and one of my clowns and both of my mollies are gone!!!!!!!

All three were in the tank for months and very healthy. I will be selling the carpet shortly either on here or LFS.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8114810#post8114810 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Glindac
Is there any other anemone good for a community tank that clowns like and just as pretty as the carpet and bubble tip?
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what size tank did you say you have again?
 
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