Pink carpet

Sullyman

Sullyman

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I got a carpet for my Latz pair, it looked to be about 18"-20" in diameter, bright pink nice and sticky healthy anemone. I put it in with my pair of Latz, they had a bubble tip with them still, so they didn't dive right in but the female was testing it out within an hour. They hosted their rbta that night, the female was sleeping in the carpet the second night, Tuesday. The next morning around 11 the anemone flushed and I divived the clowns and the carpet to protect it. It has finally filled itself but still doesn't look as good as it did on arrival but the mouth looks ok.
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It is pretty bleached, IMO.

And the mouth should be tightly closed, the gaping could just be from being new to your tank, but I would keep an very close eye on it.

What lights do you have? Are you acclimating it to your lights?
 
You may want to find some finely chopped up fish/shrimp slices to feed it. From the bleaching it probably won't survive with just light supplementation at this point, IMO.
 
The color really isn't important to me, it being healthy is and being big does.
It's under T5's, 20" under them. It's still puffing back up, I'll check later and see if it's sticky again. The base looks better today too.
I was going to wait until next week to try and feed, should I give it some small pieces of food sooner?
Todd I hope things go ideally, thanks.
 
Sullyman said:
The color really isn't important to me, it being healthy is and being big does.
It's under T5's, 20" under them. It's still puffing back up, I'll check later and see if it's sticky again. The base looks better today too.
I was going to wait until next week to try and feed, should I give it some small pieces of food sooner?
Todd I hope things go ideally, thanks.
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Color does play into it being healthy, or actually the lack of color.

I wouldn't feed it until next week, assuming that its mouth stays closed. Though I wouldn't worry if it happens to catch any food from feeding the fish.
 
I personally only feed mine every 3-4 weeks -- but they aren't bleached, and I am trying to limit their growth. In the case of yours, I would give it more frequent small feedings -- once settled in.

Most of mine stay fully inflated (( excluding getting slightly small after lights out )) all the time -- except for when an outside force causes them to fully retract into the sandbed. Though my blue one seems to deflate weekly, has been doing that for the past year, ever since its stress induced spawning.
 
Todd always gives such great advice! I totally agree. As soon as your anemone can begin feeding, and retaining the food, I would start feeding small portion often. I'm nursing a bleached gigantea right now. I feed it every day. I also dose the tank with vitamins, amino acids, and iodine. It may be difficult to dose iodine if the tank has other anemones or coral in it. The iodine will cause the zooxanthellae in the other critters to increase reproduction as well.

You shouldn't notice any real "flushing" in a healthy properly fed anemone. If you feed the anemone food that they can digest, and in portions small enough for them to digest, there won't be much of anything to be flushed out. I haven't seen my haddoni "flush out' since he got a taste for escargot and wiped out my turbo snail population.:rolleye1:
 
I dose those tanks with Iodide weekly, never have added amino acids but have some on hand.
It is looking more like the first 2 pics without gapping near as much but mouth still open.
The clowns treated it in what seemed too agressive or rough, could they have been acting out against an uninvited rival to their rbta?
Todd and ec, what would you feed it? I thought about some chunks of scallop but that's pretty rich. I have all kind of things on hand was about to make some food and ended up having surgery that has delayed that.
 
Todd in your experience do carpets in that condition recover? Have seen many In LFS's that look similar to that in the picture and are usually goners with in a weeks time
 
Sully, congratulations on your new carpet! If it does well for you, it will be a showstopper. I always heard red and purples are a little more tricky, but I can't be sure if that's true because proportionally there are less seen or acquired.
If you aren't acclimating them to lights, I would strongly suggest it like Todd mentioned. Even my purple and blue I received fully colored needed to be acclimated after shipping.

I think more important than worrying about feeding it would be to give it it's quiet time to do what it needs to do to recover. It's going to take a bit of energy to move to where it needs to go, and it's ability to hold it's body up like pic #1 and 2 shows promise.

However, #3 pic is a little bit of a concern. A body that looks like that to me would be troubling. I don't know when you put it in your tank, but I would keep a close watch to make sure it's not constantly pushing 'chunge' out.

For example, after acclimating my haddoni, for the next couple of days it would leak out all kinds of cloudy, smelly, waste that I would directly pipette out from the stream. These were the lucky times that I caught it. I can only imagine how much I missed. If this is the case, please be sure to do your water changes as needed especially since it's so large.

Good luck, this is a color beauty I've always admired.
 
Most of the time these anemones are collected wrong (lifted out of the water, crushing their organs under their own weight) and will die slowly - hence their bad reputation. Kathy is right - let them deflate and inflate and fix themselves if they can. I wouldn't try to force food on it quite yet. Scallops are an excellent choice when it is ready to eat, though.
 
Thanks Kathy and everyone. It deflated last evening and I really thought it was going to be dead this AM but it re-inflated and it's mouth finally looks closed. Will just give it time to recover if it can.
 
Toddrtrex said:
I personally only feed mine every 3-4 weeks
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In your experience, do they typically eat a portion of what the fish are eating??? All the (healthy) anemones I've ever kept ate small amounts daily from the water column when I feed my fish. As such I never felt the need to target feed.


BTW, I agree with the previous statements... it's a red carpet that's bleached. I hope it improves for you and does well long term.

Sullyman said:
Thanks Kathy and everyone. It deflated last evening and I really thought it was going to be dead this AM but it re-inflated and it's mouth finally looks closed. Will just give it time to recover if it can.
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Glad to hear it.
 
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