red carpet tips

bullitr

bullitr

broke but happy
i bought i few carpet from stablished tank and they also do well but never had luck non established carpet ( blue). Today i bought a red with purplish body and green speck. its from my " fish store" and i know i spend a little too much on it. any tips for keeping this guys happy?

should i put treat it with cipro?
thanks
 
I would not recommend treatment unless the anemone is sick. Are you confident enough in your ability to differentiate a sick anemone from a newly introduced anemone?
 
red carpet tips

So far the new red carpet set its foot on a rock which is a good sign also my angel have no interest on it. I try to forced a ultra Picasso clownfish in the carpet but it got stuck so I let it go I might have to relocate my true percula pair to the red carpet from the giant green one .
Will that help the anemone ?
Really bad iPhone picture


My green carpet
 
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From my experience, anemone does not require clownfish for any reason.
And clownfish is just destructive to anemone, for example, digging into anemone mouth to rob their food, teashing anemone intestine tissue, robbery for meaty food that sticking on tentacle, shadowing tiny anemone to block their photosynthesis...
 
Don't force any clown fish on to anemone, especially a Haddoni or Gigantea carpet or you may loose the fish.
I would leave them alone, it you see that your carpet is sick, then I would recommend that you treat it. The less you disturbed it, the better. New anemone do better without clown fish. Often clown fish digs into the anemone inner and rip things out to eat. A new anemone cannot protect his inner because he cannot close his mouth tight. Often this cause death of the anemone.
 
OrionN said:
Don't force any clown fish on to anemone, especially a Haddoni or Gigantea carpet or you may loose the fish.
I would leave them alone, it you see that your carpet is sick, then I would recommend that you treat it. The less you disturbed it, the better. New anemone do better without clown fish. Often clown fish digs into the anemone inner and rip things out to eat. A new anemone cannot protect his inner because he cannot close his mouth tight. Often this cause death of the anemone.
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Thanks
 
yanagisawa said:
From my experience, anemone does not require clownfish for any reason.
And clownfish is just destructive to anemone, for example, digging into anemone mouth to rob their food, teashing anemone intestine tissue, robbery for meaty food that sticking on tentacle, shadowing tiny anemone to block their photosynthesis...
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I've only seen clowns beat up an anemone that's acclimating or is sick. I don't think they're doing it intentionally. There's no reason why I clown would want to kill its host.

yanagisawa said:
I would say the red carpet is still acclimating.
Your green carpet is doing so good!
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+1. Leave it alone unless it starts to deflate, or the mouth begins to gape. The green one looks good, though your angel and moorish idols look like they're eye-balling it. Iwould keep the clown to protect the nem from any hungry or curious fish. You'd be surprised how well the clowns will guard their host (in contradiction to yangisawa's comment above).

OrionN said:
Don't force any clown fish on to anemone, especially a Haddoni or Gigantea carpet or you may loose the fish.
I would leave them alone, it you see that your carpet is sick, then I would recommend that you treat it. The less you disturbed it, the better. New anemone do better without clown fish. Often clown fish digs into the anemone inner and rip things out to eat. A new anemone cannot protect his inner because he cannot close his mouth tight. Often this cause death of the anemone.
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+1. Forcing a clown into a nem usually ends in disaster -- either dead clown or beat up nem. I've seem clowns try to ram themselves into a gigantea's mouth a few times now. This only happens when the nem is acclimating. I have never seen any of my clowns act in this way once the nem is healthy. In other words, this may actually be a good indicator of the health of an anemone. If they keep doing it and the nem starts to deflate, it's probably a good sign to begin treatment with Cipro.
 
So far it seems to adjusting good .. Hope it continue. Thanks guys .
I worry because its very expensive carpet and there was a small damage trying to remove the carpet for the glass.
 
Food damage is away difficult to tell how extensive. If he start to deflates, start him on treatment. Too soon is much better than too late/
 
I know this may not be what you want to hear, but in my extensive experience with delicate anemones bought from a fish store, a lot of it is luck of the draw. I have gotten vey healthy specimens - including a red carpet - that are essentially indestructible, and others that, despite the stable parameters which keep all of my other nems healthy, inexplicably deteriorate and die within a few weeks. I cannot explain this for the life of me - an expensive game of roulette IMO.
 
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I hope not, I had a few green ones that I had for a long time but because it eats my precious angel, I sold it. Now that my angels are a lot bigger I don't worry about the angels , I worry that the carpet will get eaten by my emperor.
 
bullitr said:
I hope not, I had a few green ones that I had for a long time but because it eats my precious angel, I sold it. Now that my angels are a lot bigger I don't worry about the angels , I worry that the carpet will get eaten by my emperor.
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Haddoni carpet can easy eat a 12 inches fish. Even large fish got caught by Haddoni and escape will died a few hrs later. Size of the fish is no guarantee that it will not be kill by carpet, either Haddoni or Gigantea.
 
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