multiple haddoni carpets dedicated aquarium

Jadran

Jadran

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I ordered recently red haddoni anemone, haven't seen it jet ,hope to get it with friends next shipping. :)
So as I awaiting my priced pet, fellow aquarist asks me why am I throwing so much money in it when I could get his green one for symbolic price. Because of its bad fish-eating habit he would be happy to get rid of it.

Than it strikes me.. three carpets in my 100g: red, green and one day blue one. Some other cnidarian here and there but lets say species tank. I tried to look up similar aquariums here on RC, saw some topics but nothing much. No to many inspirational pics and so..d

I think It shouldn't be to hard to make, provided I get healthy animals. Is any of you here on RC running this kinda aquarium and what are the experiences and observations? Any pictures?
 
yes, I saw that aquarium in some other thread. And some shots of the blue one spawning. Beautiful animal.

My tank is approx 1-1/2 year old and I'm about to slowly convert it to anemone aquarium. Have my fingers crossed about the red one and its condition..they are impossible to get here in my area and its no other way than to order it directly. When its settles Ill be traveling the neighborhood shopping for blue one. plan is to put them in bb.
 
If by "bb" you mean bare bottom, that's a bad idea. IMHO, these are obligate sand dwellers. I don't want to keep a deep sand bed in my tank, but I have to because of my haddoni. If it doesn't have sand, it wont sit still. These are large powerful animals that you don't want roaming a tank full of LR. They're like bulldozers that just push things out of their way. Even large LR. I don't have anything in my tank that can stop my haddoni if it chooses to move. Not to mention the fact that they are not designed to spend large amounts of energy roaming around. They really need a nice comfy spot where they can bury their foot under a rock and sand.
 
thx for bringing it up :) Yes I meant bare bottom. The reason I mentioned it is precisely that, i was reading up about these nems and i see people talk about em moving rocks and stuff.. so i was wondering how exactly extreme are they? On one hand this all sounds logical but on the other i see that some folks keep them in tanks with shallow sand, and than i think really shallow sand and no sand.. what difference does it actually makes? I don't have any unstable lose LR that cold be toppled down. Actually what i got is two large reef ceramics modules connected with a bridge, pretty stable stuff.. I like it BB, its clean and easy to administer, just siphoning the dead zones. If i really have to I'll get some sand to prevent it/em to move but I wouldn't go DSB. Somehow it reminds me of ritteris and their famous moving around aquarium but with them it is just about few tricks to keep em where we want them to be.. How does it goes with haddons? There must also be some tips to keep em on desired spots?
 
Sounds like a neat project. Similar to the one I'm probably going with in the future.

I'd definitely go with a sand bed though. Moving anemones are no fun for anyone/anything involved
 
Jadran said:
thx for bringing it up :) Yes I meant bare bottom. The reason I mentioned it is precisely that, i was reading up about these nems and i see people talk about em moving rocks and stuff.. so i was wondering how exactly extreme are they? On one hand this all sounds logical but on the other i see that some folks keep them in tanks with shallow sand, and than i think really shallow sand and no sand.. what difference does it actually makes? I don't have any unstable lose LR that cold be toppled down. Actually what i got is two large reef ceramics modules connected with a bridge, pretty stable stuff.. I like it BB, its clean and easy to administer, just siphoning the dead zones. If i really have to I'll get some sand to prevent it/em to move but I wouldn't go DSB. Somehow it reminds me of ritteris and their famous moving around aquarium but with them it is just about few tricks to keep em where we want them to be.. How does it goes with haddons? There must also be some tips to keep em on desired spots?
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They won't move as long as they're happy where they are. Mine never moves unless I do something to upset it. They need good quality bright light, low flow, and sand. They usually tuck their foot through the sand and under a rock. If you can provide these conditions, it should stay put for years at a time.
I've seen pic's of them in BB tanks but I've never seen proof that the anemone has lived in a BB tank long term. 2 or 3 inches of sand should work.
 
Like was mentioned, I have 2 tanks with 2 Haddonis in them -- my 3rd tank only has one -- currently, never know what will happen.

Mine will only move if something upsets them, mainly me changing the flow in the tank. As for a BB tank, I don't think that they would be very happy in there -- as elegance mentioned, 2-3 inches would work, that is about the depth of the sandbeds in all my tanks. I recently sold off my mated pair of Clarkiis -- they were digging up the sand around their Haddoni, causing it to move all the time. Now that they are gone, and the sandbed isn't being dug up, it has stopped moving.
 
Here is a pic of my red i had her for abotu 18 mths and has grown about 5 in! Also a very known fish eater!
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thx for your input :) I'll see how it goes, and I'll put some sand on the bottom if thats essential to keep em happy. Nice pics too. The most important for me now would be to get healthy specimen.. They are impossible to by locally over here so I'm getting one shipped directly from indopacific. It is pretty pathetic here actually. Only dyed and bleached blue giganteas in the LFS and one green haddoni from my local scene. Sliced several times already.. I'll be getting clone of that one.. That one should be hardy enough. :D

do they bleach often and in what colors they get? (besides green, red, blue, purple, striped green)
 
Jadran said:
do they bleach often and in what colors they get? (besides green, red, blue, purple, striped green)
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I personally have never had one bleach on me, but I would suspect that they would bleach like any other anemone if they are stressed too much.

I have a tanish one, and a greenish one with a purple rim (( besides a blue one, solid green and striped green ))

My tanish one (( can see one of my Clarkiis if you look closely at the upper right side ))

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The greenish/purple rimmed one,

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top down,

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[/quote] Sliced several times already.. I'll be getting clone of that one.. That one should be hardy enough. :D [/QUOTE]
You saying that they are "fraging" these anemones?
 
Toddrtrex said:
My tanish one (( can see one of my Clarkiis if you look closely at the upper right side ))
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hehe, sweet :) probably nursing the eggs, right?

You saying that they are "fraging" these anemones?
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Yes, I haven't done it myself so I can't discuss it in great detail but its done and according to these guys there is no much wisdom to it. Just as with other known to be fagged nems (LTA, BTA..) with big sharp butchers knife you make one clean cut through the middle so you end up with half of the oral disc and foot on each half..It is extremely stressful but if its done to an healthy aquarium specimen it can live through it.. It was said to me that scary thing was cutting through its foot because lot of water splashes out of it.. like cutting a balloon filled with water or something like it. If you are interested to know more about it I can speak with them and post some feedback (healing time, etc..)

btw. im not prepared to take blame for eventual loses done with actions inspired by this post, in other words its been done-can be done.. but its not risk free so dont blame me ;)

As I mentioned earlier, over here are interesting cnidarians hard to come by so we cut all kinda things: bubbles, elegances, fungias, favias and so on..single polyp, flabello-meandroid skeletons and so on
 
Charlie, Go to marinedepot.com and look up anthony calfo's threads on cloning anemones. There is no better anemone cloning info available in the world, atleast that I have came across.

I do know from experience the bta's can b cut every 2 weeks if u have optimum setup for growth and I would expect the haddoni to b able to b cut every 2 weeks also if the setup is optimum.
 
Can anyone post proof that an anemone can live happily ever after, after being cut in half? Other than those that are known to split naturally. The only two host species I know of that are able to survive such damage are BTA and magnifica. Which also happen to be the only two known to split naturally. The others don't split naturally and its never been shown that they will survive such damage. Anyone can cut an anemone if half. That doesn't mean that it will survive. There have been some very experienced hobbyists with very healthy anemone try this and fail. IMHO, if you cut an anemone that doesn't split naturally, you'll just end up with two pieces of one dead anemone.
 
I have cut btas w/ a great amount of success (75%)but i would not do every 2 weeks maybe like 2 mths if even that! All i have ever read is summed up by elegance coral! Well said!
 
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