sorry for your loss
sorry for your loss
Sorry to hear about the loss, I feel badly, for you and the carpet. Having kept a blue and a green Haddoni, I can honestly say they are generall very easy to keep as long as you provide the right lighting, clean water, dsb, and food. Not trying to overly simplfy this but its not like keeping acros or a ritteri. I understand that if alleopathy was the case from the green leathers being fraged and plumbed inline to the carpet, maybe a filter system or a seperate quarentine tank should have been used to instead of straight plumbing them together, especially with a rare find like a red carpet. I can only attest to their hardiness from my experience. It must have been a copious amount of toxins released to have caused it to stop feeding and die. What foods did you try, was it ever truly sticky? My carpet pulled down over 6 fish before finally giving him away to a fellow reefer for a gbta, which I still have, although it has now split 1 time from my move to a new apt. I can say that if you truly spend extra time on a sick anenome, and make sure you water is clean chances are it can be saved, unless it has a serious foot tear, with infection. I do not know about Ritteri's I hear that their size and lighting demands alone are significant to match. Good look with your propogation.
p.s.
As a side not make sure to inspect your future anenmone purchases and make sure they can be fed before accpeting the purchase. I tru sign of good health in carpets is stickiness and feeding, at the end of my green carpets time in my tank before being traded he would close extremly fast on any food or fish, and even on my Kent scrapper, to the point where it felt like a human hand pulling on it. In my gallery you can see pics of it eating a 5 inch yellow tang.
good luck
David
They will readily accept other things to host in.
