How many have lost haddoni and why?

[Crustman]

I know you may not know what killed your animal since so much can happen with collection, transport and water chemistry but I need some things to watch out for. I am having a difficult acclimation of one. Thanks

 

[stevetcg]

I got one... looked good for 3 weeks. Then turned inside out every day and died 2 weeks later. No idea why. Water chemistry was good all along, lighting was sufficient. It never took live or frozen food but its color was good right up to the day it died.

 

[Frank Giacobbe]

I lost a green one. I think the most important thing to do is slowly acclimate you haddoni to lighting. A lot of people blast them with to much litght to soon. I think it is better after aclimating the carpet to the tank then slowing getting it acustom to light over a month. Weekly increasing the amount of hours the lights are on and you can even help shading with black screening material.

 

[OrionN]

I had a helathy one for years. I added a MO Haddoni, it was sick and died after 3 weeks. What ever it had, it transmitted to my healthy one and it died 2 weeks later.

 

[Toddrtrex]

I want to say that I have lost 4 over the years (( Currently have 5 of them, the oldest has been with me for 10+ years )). All the 4 died within 7 days of me receiving them, did the standard look great for two days and then started the open mouth thing.

 

[Crustman]

Thank you, keeping one of these is a real learning experience. I nursed a ghost LTA back to health and the haddoni is supposed to be as hard to keep as a BT on the difficult list. Sorry if you lost one of these amazing animals.

 

[mobert]

I just lost one that looked good for three weeks but never settled in and then it started inflating/deflating and the mouth started opening and closing. It was gone by the end of the fourth week.

 

[Crustman]

Dang, I was hoping that if you kept them alive for a week then they would start taking food and settle in.

 

[Toddrtrex]

While the ones that I have lost died within the first week, I would say you should stay "worried" for the first 2 months.

 

[R33f3r]

I had a helathy one for years. I added a MO Haddoni, it was sick and died after 3 weeks. What ever it had, it transmitted to my healthy one and it died 2 weeks later.

I think the exact same thing just happened to me. I kept a 4" green haddoni for a few months in a 40 breeder, doing very well and then added a blue haddoni that I got from a local reefer.....the next morning the new blue was smoking and deflated really badly (I knew it was sick when i saw that, should have checked before hand but I didn't have the time) and I believe it transmitted something to my green which died a few days later

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

I introduced a new haddoni to a reef aquarium housing a long established haddoni and it appeared fine for several days. Shortly thereafter it pulled itself beneath the DSB and I never saw any trace of the new arrival again.
The established haddoni remained okay.

 

[Toddrtrex]

I think the exact same thing just happened to me. I kept a 4" green haddoni for a few months in a 40 breeder, doing very well and then added a blue haddoni that I got from a local reefer.....the next morning the new blue was smoking and deflated really badly (I knew it was sick when i saw that, should have checked before hand but I didn't have the time) and I believe it transmitted something to my green which died a few days later

That is how I lost my red one, and a tan one that I had had for 12+ years -- a new addition that seemed to have an "infection" of some sorts took out both. (( the new one seemed "off" so I moved it to another tank, the tank that had the 12+ year old one -- man was that a stupid mistake )).

 

[taylor t]

That is how I lost my red one, and a tan one that I had had for 12+ years -- a new addition that seemed to have an "infection" of some sorts took out both. (( the new one seemed "off" so I moved it to another tank, the tank that had the 12+ year old one -- man was that a stupid mistake )).

That sucks to hear. That red was awesome looking. Sorry to hear.


I've lost quite a few to shipping, so I decided no more shipping for me, I find mine at the LFS, which is hard to do.

 

[Toddrtrex]

That sucks to hear. That red was awesome looking. Sorry to hear.


I've lost quite a few to shipping, so I decided no more shipping for me, I find mine at the LFS, which is hard to do.

Thanks -- I wasn't happy about that at all -- since it was something I could have avoided; when adding a new Haddoni to a take that already has one, I will have to QT it first, for at least a month.

I have had issues with shipping too, and have found it difficult to find them in our area.

 

[deangelr]

I have lost a red 3 months after its arrival for reasons I do not know (maybe bacterial infection), as there were other resident haddoni's

Just a note... There seems to be a consensus among those with experience with different color morphs that the red haddoni's are much more difficult to care for. I do not know why.. Delbeck and Sprung state in RAV2 tha the haddoni is the easiest anemone to provide proper captive care.

Their stuggles are really only in shipment IMO.

 

[Toddrtrex]

Personally, I don't think there is any difference in the care/difficultly of the color morphs. I know why my red one died, and prior to that it was doing great. Had colored up and was huge. IMO, the perceived difficultly with certain color morphs is mainly because they are rare -- and people will take a chance on them when they would normally pass on it if it was a "normal" color.

 

[ReeferBill]

Also lost Haddoni

Also lost Haddoni

I purchased a yellow suppose to be green but only had it a month, never could get it to eat, ... I then tried a light green bubble and it started to color up after being completly bleached and got a beautiful Rose bubble and that died and it looked great and both were eating and then out of nowhere the rose just melts and my green that I was so proud of just shrunk and vanished. I want to keep an anenome but I am very tired of losing them.I had a bleached Long Tentacled Anenome that grew and turned into a beautiful green and gave it away when it got too big...Whish I kept that one I had it for 7 years.:wildone:

 

[ocellaris123]

Personally, I don't think there is any difference in the care/difficultly of the color morphs. I know why my red one died, and prior to that it was doing great. Had colored up and was huge. IMO, the perceived difficultly with certain color morphs is mainly because they are rare -- and people will take a chance on them when they would normally pass on it if it was a "normal" color.

Did you lose the one you got from Dr. mac? That must have been tough loss. I have purchased three green ones online (DD) and have lost all three due to the stress of shipping. I also lost a nice violet colored one also. It was doing good and eating for a week and a half and just crashed after that. I have also lost a electric green one. I was dumb and bought the violet one and electric green one as soon as the store got it (mouths were gaping still), but I took the chance and lost out. Its really hard to find haddonis even in southern california. Talking to one of my LFS, he said he doesnt like to get them because he usually loses all of them.

 

[R33f3r]

That is how I lost my red one, and a tan one that I had had for 12+ years -- a new addition that seemed to have an "infection" of some sorts took out both. (( the new one seemed "off" so I moved it to another tank, the tank that had the 12+ year old one -- man was that a stupid mistake )).

Man, that's rough you had a very nice red one from your pics...I should have qt'd this blue one just didn't have the time to do so..lesson learned.

 

[R33f3r]

Its really hard to find haddonis even in southern california. Talking to one of my LFS, he said he doesnt like to get them because he usually loses all of them.

Same here. I live in Houston and no LFS's will even touch haddoni let alone gigantea. I have asked every single one around me and they just laugh citing the difficulties of even finding one's in good shape. It seems impossible nowadays when a just few years ago, there was a decent chance on getting healthy ones (gigantea speaking). On a seperate note, I have bought haddoni from dd in the past and all came in healthy (shipping water was way too cold however) and thrived. Sold a green one due to it outgrowing my tank.