Red, Blue and Purple Carpets

arcab4

arcab4

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took some pictures to show a friend today so i thought i would share them here...

red carpet - i've had this one for a few months already. at first it kept on moving and i would have to readjust all my corals but it seems to be okay now. it seems to like to open up like a pancake and the foot diameter is a solid 6" or so.

<img src="http://i10.tinypic.com/2ngc23b.jpg">


blue carpet - got this 2 days ago. so it's still acclimating to my tank probably but i totally digg that blue.

<img src="http://i9.tinypic.com/2ur566h.jpg">

purple gigantea:
this one i'm kinda bummed about. had it for over a year..but a few days ago after feeding, it started to go downhill it seems.

the purple a few weeks ago:
<img src="http://i9.tinypic.com/3ypm1io.jpg">

The purple now. :(
<img src="http://i9.tinypic.com/2yn3wxc.jpg">

not quite sure what caused it. any ideas?
 
Beautiful red and blue haddoni's there! Sorry to hear about the purple gigantea. It was a very nice looking specimen! I hope it recovers for you. I wonder if adding the new ones had anything to do with the purple's demise?
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8328158#post8328158 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by sonofgaladriel
Beautiful red and blue haddoni's there! Sorry to hear about the purple gigantea. It was a very nice looking specimen! I hope it recovers for you. I wonder if adding the new ones had anything to do with the purple's demise?
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Yeah I am thinking that adding those two other carpets may have caused your Gigantea's decline.
 
the purple one was in there first. it's been co-existing with the red one for months. it was after one feeding that it started to decline.

i added the blue one after the decline started.

maybe it was something it ate? but i fed the same food to the red one (silversides).
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8328247#post8328247 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by arcab4
the purple one was in there first. it's been co-existing with the red one for months. it was after one feeding that it started to decline.

i added the blue one after the decline started.

maybe it was something it ate? but i fed the same food to the red one (silversides).
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From what I have heard, anemones can have chemicle warfare with each other and gradually decline over a long or small period of time, sometimes unnoticable.

Another possibility is that you fed a bad silverside to your Gigantea. It could have just been a bad one in the clutch.


And sometimes there is no explanation to why anemones die on us despite how strong our lighting or how great our water is. It just happens. We are not the ocean. We can only emulate it.
 
If it happened all of a sudden and it happened the day after you fed it, I would suspect a bad piece of fish.
 
Bummer. Hope it pulls through, dunno what else to say. :( It looked very nice. The other carpets look very nice as well. Good luck.
 
It's happened twice to my purple gigantea. Looked exactly the same as yours and this was after feeding. I can only agree with the others that it was a bad piece of food. Both times it was silversides. The up side is that after both incidents it made a full recovery which took about a week. Best of luck.
 
thanks for the input. the good news is that it's still firmly attached. i'll continue to monitor it's progress.
 
Red carpet & percula clown

Red carpet & percula clown

We just purchased a red carpet anemone that looks just like yours we also have 2 percula clownfish (young) because we read that it was there host anemone. i think it ate my female percula. i thought they didnt eat them. we feed the carpet krill so i dont understand why it would do that.
 
Re: Red carpet & percula clown

Re: Red carpet & percula clown

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8334137#post8334137 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by davidandliz
We just purchased a red carpet anemone that looks just like yours we also have 2 percula clownfish (young) because we read that it was there host anemone. i think it ate my female percula. i thought they didnt eat them. we feed the carpet krill so i dont understand why it would do that.
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Percula unfortunately become meals to haddoni's. I lost a pair in 6 hours to one of mine a few years back. Saddlebacks are the natural host, but I prefer clarkii's as they are not as mean IME. Perculas will host in magnificas, bta' (sometimes), and s. giganteas.
 
The reason I never fed silversides to my anemones is because I have heard to many stories of bad ones that can lead to food poisening. I feed my anemones just shrimp and sometimes raw pieces of fish.
 
the red one wouldn't take krill so that's why i switched to silversides.

hmm...reading more and more about hadonni and percula's not getting along. i was going to start a percula clan in my tank...
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8335080#post8335080 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by arcab4
the red one wouldn't take krill so that's why i switched to silversides.

hmm...reading more and more about hadonni and percula's not getting along. i was going to start a percula clan in my tank...
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Even if it did take krill, its not really as healthy for them to take silversides or pieces of shrimp. I personally feel like choped up small pieces of shrimp is the best just because they are less likely to carry pollutants within them. Remember, as the days go on, humans pollute the ocean by dumping trash, draining our sewage, or dumping nuclear waste. There is the possibility of having one of those silversides carrying some type of pollutant and so when you feed it to your sensivtive Gigantea, its going to become very sick.
 
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