S. Haddoni carpet anemone spawning??

TEDALLEN80

TEDALLEN80

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Couple of hours after lights out i like to just check on things. I stumble upon a very cloudy tank and see its coming from my new carpet anemone. This thing is smoking and spewing out a ton of stuff.

My questions are this...
1. is the carpet spawning?
2. if so, why? was it because of the recent transfer (orlando florida to tampa) or the new environment
3. I have a green haddoni also could this be a trigger for the spawn if its a spawn?
4. necessary steps to ensure corals stay alive?

so far i replaced my dual nextreef reactor with fresh carbon and debating on a water change but i ran out of salt. Ill pick some up friday. Should i do small water changes? a big one?

300g total volume system with sps lps rare chalices zoas and others and the carpet is 22"

please spill your thoughts

here's the pics:
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It sure looks like it to me, I don't have much info on the reasons why, hopefully Todd will chime in as I know he experienced this with his blue haddoni.

I will say that the color of your anemone is amazing, a beautiful creature you have there.
 
It's not uncommon to have stress induced spawns. They rarely cause any significant problems in tanks with as much water volume as yours. You've hit on most of the things you can do: run your skimmer wet, add carbon, and do reasonable, careful, water changes. I'd just run the skimmer wet and prepare a couple small water changes. Everything should be fine.

Georgeous anemone! Is it a recent import?
 
Great looking Haddoni. Should pair it up with my blue one. ;)


And I am almost certain that it is a spawn. Looks very similar to when mine spawned (( though mine was stress induced )) Mine lasted for about 45 minutes, the tank was very cloudy but didn't have any issues from it.

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I just noticed your questions -- oops.

As you can see from the picture above, I also have a green Haddoni in that tank, there was no reaction from it. All I was able to do was to change the carbon and empty the skimmer cup. A water change had to wait for 3 days.

All of my coral (( mainly SPS )) and clam were fine, same with the fish.

The reason I am almost certain that mine was stress reduced was that I was in the hospital for 5 days, and sometime during that my main pump stopped working. When I was released the temp was 71* and the SG was 1.030. It spawn the next day -- when I got the pump fixed.
 
My green had a stressed induced spawn as well Toddrtrex is right on with all of his advise. I ran carbon and did a couple small WC's.

Very nice Haddoni!
 
i picked the anemone up from a fellow hobbiest. Im sure its stress induced also. This was his first day in the tank. Today (friday) is day 2. System cleared up a little bit, but he still has a gaping mouth and shrunk down in size. I will not try and feed him for a couple more days or at least until his mouth goes back to normal and he starts to inflate more. I was up the majority of the night. This spawn lasted for 3 hours!!!

As far as the lighting he is under should be plenty to suffice 2x 250w 20k radiums.
Water parameters: sg 1.025-1.026 nitrate 0, phosphate .01 on hanna, ammonia 0, Magnesium 1345, calcium 440, alkalinity 10dkh, ph is about 8.0. temp 79-82 swing a degree about every 3-4 hours.

last night i also bumped the skimmer to run a little wet. Man does that sperm sure make the skimmer pull some skunk out of the water. Nice and oily it seems.

Thanks for the help so far guys i appreciate it alot :) :)
 
I wouldn't be surprised if it looks "off" for a while. I know that it took mine a while to get back to normal.

Also, I was looking at the pictures a bit closer... are the tentacles always that small? Granted haddonis tend to have smaller ones, but your seem smaller then they should be and a bit more sparse around the mouth then I normally see. What conditions was it under? While I normally don't recommend feeding all that often, might not be a bad idea to feed this one a bit more -- once a week, with small pieces.
 
when i got him on wednesday, he was inflated. He was in an empty 125 but it was running, so i assume he was stressed before the move here. Not much history but he fed 4 silversides a week, and the nem has been in captivity for 2+ years
 
ok today he has been deflated all the way with his mouth gaping all day. I lightly tapped his tentacled and he's sticky as hell.
 
Wow thats one amazing coloured Carpet you have there. I just brought my first one yesterday, he is only about 3 inches.
 
just read the whole thread and sorry for your loss. My main concern is that this is not recently obtained from the wild. It came from a hobbiest that had him for roughly 2 years.

I also fear D day, but so far he hasnt moved and has a very very very strong hold of the bottom of the tank.

Thanks for helping me out randy
 
after the feeding his mouth closed to normal and almost instantly started to inflate. I fed about a quater size of my home made food consisting of the following:
selcon
vitachem
omega one flakes
shrimp
scalops
salmon
tuna
brine shrimp enriched
spirulina
PE mysis
cyclopeeze
garlic
rotifers
and some nano 3600
 
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