Multicolor Carpet anemone

[phender]

Just to get a little clarification, you have frags of native (Atlantic/Florida) corals and not Pacific corals yes? It would not be a good idea at all (probably not even legal) to introduce Pacific corals and/or fish and inverts into the Florida ecosystem.

 

[5Starreef]

Just to get a little clarification, you have frags of native (Atlantic/Florida) corals and not Pacific corals yes? It would not be a good idea at all (probably not even legal) to introduce Pacific corals and/or fish and inverts into the Florida ecosystem.

At the moment I only have some frags I got around the area, because I want to be sure how everything works. What I am planning to do is grow some corals from the Keys , I am not planing to have any corals for any other location.

The fish are the area fish, they come and go. I dont have any control of them.
I am trying to catch a Lion fish I am seeing around the last week to kill him.

The only Invert and fish I have from other locations are in the SPA.

Besides, What you think about the anemone, I know you used to have a very nice mertensii a few years ago, right?

 

[phender]

The anemone looks great. The yellowish green color looks a lot like mine. I am not used to seeing so many folds in a merten's carpet. They usually lay a bit flatter.

Have you thought about putting a little shade cloth over your spa? The couple guys who grow corals outside around here have colored plastic and/or shade cloth over their tanks. Your anemone looks a little light in color. I wonder if that is because they normally occur in deeper water and the light in your spa is a little too bright.

I'm not saying that is what you should do. I am just saying that if I were in your situation, I would do some research to see if indeed merten's are a deeper water species and why do (as least some) outdoor coral farmers shade their containers a little. It might be worth a little internet surfing and a couple phone calls.

Your system looks awesome. I have thought about setting up a greenhouse tank myself. All I need is a little time, money, a way to get a big container into my backyard and oh yah..... a greenhouse.

 

[SantaMonica]

It's reef pools like that one that convinced me to get a mini reef pool.

 

[5Starreef]

The anemone looks great. The yellowish green color looks a lot like mine. I am not used to seeing so many folds in a merten's carpet. They usually lay a bit flatter.

Have you thought about putting a little shade cloth over your spa? The couple guys who grow corals outside around here have colored plastic and/or shade cloth over their tanks. Your anemone looks a little light in color. I wonder if that is because they normally occur in deeper water and the light in your spa is a little too bright.

I'm not saying that is what you should do. I am just saying that if I were in your situation, I would do some research to see if indeed merten's are a deeper water species and why do (as least some) outdoor coral farmers shade their containers a little. It might be worth a little internet surfing and a couple phone calls.

Your system looks awesome. I have thought about setting up a greenhouse tank myself. All I need is a little time, money, a way to get a big container into my backyard and oh yah..... a greenhouse.

I think in the video looks a little bit more yellow, in real it looks more green and brown. Under blue light the tentacles are phosphorescence .


The anemone was flat when I first got it, I was told by the LFS it was a hadonni because the tentacles were very small and the anemone was completely flat, also she got few white tentacles, I will say 30 to 50. After 2 or 3 weeks started to develop those folders and longer tentacles, and the white tentacles disappeared. I think she likes the flow. What I think is the fact this anemones are hardy the way they looks dont affect to much to their thriving and they looks a little bit flat when the conditions are not optimum, but when they got a good flow,light in a environment they like, they look very similar to the Gigs.

It is not easy to cover the spa, I tried to cover it a few times, more about the rain, but this area is often very windy. The rain affect the salinity , but what I saw in my experience that is not dramatic at all, sometimes I read 1.22 in a raining day, but corals and the anemone seems not be affected at all about it, and after 6 -7 days the salinity get back to 1.26, If a see the salinity going lower than 1.22 I make a water change, just adding some water from the bay.

Also seems like she likes a loot the bright light because the tentacles are longer during the day time, and thanks to the trees surrounding the spa is only getting 4-5 hours direct sun light.


I am out of the town for 15 days, but when I came back I will post pictures of the sump area.

Thanks for the advice Phender

Regards

 

[taylor t]

Real nice! Thanks for sharing!