ID on this carpet picture please.

[Jeff000]

I got this, and didn't think to find out more then it is a carpet anemone.

And I have been trying to ID it myself, but I don't know.

I took a picture.

 

[ct_vol]

Looks like a bleached Gig to me... Plenty of potential though!!! Good luck... :thumbsup:

 

[reppo13]

S. Gigantea... They need strong lighting and strong flow. Looks like he is bleached too. Start feeding him so he can help regain his zoox

 

[Jeff000]

What would bleach him? I didn't think it was bleached.

It has strong light, I was almost thinking too strong, lighting is almost at the point where zoa's melt. I've had it for a week now, and tonight fed it a silverside, I fed it a silverside 3 days ago too.
Oh and medium flow.

 

[ct_vol]

But how do I fix it?

Time and good care...

 

[Doe5ia14]

I think a lot of people choose other foods to fed anemones instead of silversides. Maybe try raw shrimp or scallops from the grocery store, soaked in selcon would even be better.

 

[Jeff000]

I think a lot of people choose other foods to fed anemones instead of silversides. Maybe try raw shrimp or scallops from the grocery store, soaked in selcon would even be better.

Why not feed it silversides? and what is selcon?
It also gets a little krill, mysis, cyclopeze, chopped clam, etc from whatever I am feeding my fish. Not a lot, but it gets some.

 

[this is me]

Starting to see a lot of bleached gigantea thread recently. Maybe it's gigantea season.

 

[elegance coral]

Why not feed it silversides? and what is selcon?
It also gets a little krill, mysis, cyclopeze, chopped clam, etc from whatever I am feeding my fish. Not a lot, but it gets some.

While I've never personally had a problem with silver sides, there are many, many, many reports of silver sides killing healthy anemones. I did stop using them years ago though. It seems that they are prone to going bad. Maybe its the gut contents??????? IDK. This is just one of those things where I'd rather learn from someone else's mistakes.

Selcon is a vitamin additive for fish foods. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour..._bXwBQ&usg=AFQjCNEAEXKkaCRC_BGQHwQXD1xxtx9Jog

I would just feed it the same things you're feeding your fish.

 

[R33f3r]

Starting to see a lot of bleached gigantea thread recently. Maybe it's gigantea season.

I think so too....late summer to late winter is when I see them for sale in numbers.

 

[Conrad25]

Its def. a S. Gigantea. As other stated I would not feed it silversides as we have seen/heard many anemones die out after being fed these as they got a bad one from the batch. I feed mine the same thing the fish get at the same time. It works great as my S. Gigantea and H. Mag carpets both eat it right up and have done very well with this method.

 

[Jeff000]

I feed frozen, 2 cubes a night. Feeding my gigantea the same stuff would add another cube for sure.
I have been feeding silversides to my anemones for a year now. Sometimes krill too.