petco carpet
- Thread starter yashua
- Start date
MIKE ALERS
New member
purchased my carpet from petco also and its doing awesome.just give it light and more sand to attach itself.i think its haddoni and not gigantea good luck.
I too bought a petco carpet about a month ago. My sand bed is about 1/2 an inch deep. I put it right infront of a deep hole in my lr and it attached back to the glass bottom of the tank back in the hole. At first he was quite expanded, but now keeps quite withdrawn in his hole. My clarkiis love all the folds he has.
Light should be fine. T-5 will be even better when you get it. I'm pretty certain it is S. haddoni. Water changes, heavy skimming, chaeto, siphoning of the top inch of sand, etc. should lower those nitrates. You didn't mention your specific gravity, but you want it around 1.026
i run it 21-23.i did a big water change 2days ago.so im sure it brought it down.gonna see if he attachs on his own.if he dont should i dig a pit to the bottom glass for him?at the storehe was in 3 inches of huge gravel.but attached firmly.i did put some rocks around him so time will tell.
I would definitely let that specific gravity move up to 1.026. You can do this by replacing the evaporated water with salt water instead of fresh. Some folks have had long-term success with BTA's in 1.024 or similarly depressed sg, but I don't think you'll find many if any who have maintained S. haddoni long-term in sg below 1.025 or so.
Sorry, I didn't answer your question. Some people dig a hole to the glass or to a piece of liverock and let the anemone attach and then push sand around the column. It would be interesting to know what the tank parameters, both nitrates and sg, were in the tank at Petco where it was firmly attached. The deflating and refilling suggests that the water in your tank is somewhat (at least) different from Petco.
Man..... That looks "exactly" like my Gigantea? Strange, can any of you anemone pros explain the visible difference. Other than the purple spots?
Dose it have a colored (mines bright pink/red) tips on those "rolled tung" looking things on the side of the mouth? On mine they protrude even when tho mouth is closed tight.
Also the foot of mine is a nice pink orange, like the underside of the oral disk on yours. If yours did not have that white foot it would be identical to my Gigantea.
Strange? That is a awesome looking anemone.
Please continue to up date and let us know how it goes.
Thanks
Cope
Dose it have a colored (mines bright pink/red) tips on those "rolled tung" looking things on the side of the mouth? On mine they protrude even when tho mouth is closed tight.
Also the foot of mine is a nice pink orange, like the underside of the oral disk on yours. If yours did not have that white foot it would be identical to my Gigantea.
Strange? That is a awesome looking anemone.
Please continue to up date and let us know how it goes.
Thanks
Cope
ok so last night i built up a mound 3-4 inches deep or so.put his foot right on it and put a rock behind him to make him feel secure,this is what i woke up to.
this is minutes after the lights turned on he started blowing up a little,his foot i mean.do they do that to get their foot where they want?????
this is minutes after the lights turned on he started blowing up a little,his foot i mean.do they do that to get their foot where they want?????
littleshark
New member
Wow, the anmeone looks way better. I think it does that to move sand around. My haddoni does that when it digged.
Looks like it is settling right in. I think you have a healthy haddoni there. Once they settle in and start feeding, they are actually considered quite hardy. It's the transit and settling in that is sometimes touch-and-go. In a few days to a week, you could begin to feed it small pieces of fresh from the supermarket shrimp, squid, or silversides. As you have heard I'm sure, haddoni like to eat. This sometimes includes other fish/inverts in the tank.
Similar threads
