Smurfy Haddoni

[mnchartier]

So back on June 21st I picked up a blue Haddoni at the LFS that someone brought in. I stopped in a couple of times to see how it was doing before picking up. So when I get home with the Haddoni I am getting ready to acclimate it and this is how it looked in the bucket. It is very sticky and has great color, and also started to attach to the bucket.

I acclimated it for 45 minutes seeing that the parameters we not off by much. So I place it in the tank with all powerheads off. It attached in about 30-40 minutes but not in the sand it attached to the side of a rock with very little in the sand

After about an hour this is how the mouth was

The mouth has closed tight every now and then but has always had some protrusion. This is the worst that it looked.

The on Wednesday, I could see that it started to move a little and was detaching from the rock, I took this time to move it to the sand. I would say less then 1/4 was still attached to the rock and was fairly easy to remove the rest of the foot. I dug a hole and placed it in the hole with the pumps off and this is the result.

Colors a little different due to taking the camera off of auto.
The same day I saw it eating my hectors goby.

This is where I am today with it.

So far I have been doing a 20% water change every 2-3 days and fresh carbon with each water change.

Parameters
KH - 9.5
Ca - 410
Mag - 1400
Nitrite/Ammonia - 0
Phos/Nitrate - undetected on API tests but I have a few small patches of HA but nothing huge

 

[bradleym]

Salinity and temp are also important parameters here. But Haddonis do occasionally do that when settling in. It isn't that bad off if it happens occasionally. If it is like that all the time and all parameters check out I would try dimming the lights with some window screening and see if it feels better after 2-3 days.

 

[mnchartier]

Sorry I knew I would forget something,

SG - 1.027
Temp - 79.5-80
pH - 8.03-8.18

Lighting are 2 AI Sol Blues running the long way, I have them dimmed to 40White, 40Blue, 40 Royal Blue
Flow I run 2 Tunze 6095, I only have one running at 40% with the 12v jumpers.

This is on a 57 rimless.

 

[D-Nak]

Nice looking haddoni. I would slowly bring up your pH to the 8.3 range.

 

[mnchartier]

Thank you. My pH has always been in that range and with my all being stable I never did anything to adjust it, Ill see what I can do about the pH.

 

[D-Nak]

Thank you. My pH has always been in that range and with my all being stable I never did anything to adjust it, Ill see what I can do about the pH.

Sorry, I should've provided more information. Your current pH is not really a big deal since your other parameters are fine. It's more important the pH is stable, just that 8.3 seems to be the ideal for carpet anemones like haddoni and gigantea.

 

[Daniel62]

I would also add that your salinity is just a touch high.

 

[mnchartier]

1.026-7 is a recommended SG.

 

[Haddonisreef]

I have found that mine like a 1.025 and it took some time acclamating to th LEDs. I'd bet $ that's the problem, what kind of lights was it under before you bought it?

 

[OrionN]

very nice Blue carpet. It looks great to me also. Don't worry about the mount if it does not continue to do that. Sometime my carpet does that. Does not seem to be a problem to me.

 

[D-Nak]

I would also add that your salinity is just a touch high.

Not sure where you got that info. NSW is 1.026.

 

[Daniel62]

I did say just a "touch" high. most times I see 1.024 to 1.026 to be the range.
So to me 1.027 would be just a very little or "touch" high. Also he does not say what the SG of the water was that the nem was previously in.
I have found most LFS run lower SG levels. So maybe it was just/is adj. to a higher level SG. just a thought.

 

[mnchartier]

Just a little update, the mouth is looking much better every time I looked yesterday the mouth was like in my first post 4th picture, I will get an updated pic today I just did not have time yesterday. The bad news is it moved a little behind the rock so I only see 3/4 of it and the mouth is on the back side so it's not always easy to check on the mouth.

 

[mnchartier]

This was about 10-15 minutes after it ate some krill. I am pleased as to where it settled in because I can see it well from the side when I sit on the couch and have a full view of it from the

 

[RandysReef]

This was about 10-15 minutes after it ate some krill. I am pleased as to where it settled in because I can see it well from the side when I sit on the couch and have a full view of it from the

AMAZING!
Is this the color a normal blue haddoni has?
The ones is see are usually blueish brown.

 

[E.intheC]

How's the Smurf doing?

 

[mnchartier]

Its doing Smurftastic. I rearranged my rock again. It wanted to see if it could move the left island of my aquascape to the front glass it was touching the glass. Luckily I built it very stable so there was no crashes. It seems to have settled in very well. The inverting that was happening before has stopped, at times I can see the siphonoglyphs but that is all. I'll post some updated pictures.

 

[Ambition]

That haddoni looks amazing, Matt! Never stop updating the thread.

 

[E.intheC]

That's awesome. The color looks great. I'm thinking of running a Sol Blue on my cube.

 

[mnchartier]

That haddoni looks amazing, Matt! Never stop updating the thread.

Thanks will do

That's awesome. The color looks great. I'm thinking of running a Sol Blue on my cube.

I like the lights not a fan of the controller though Im on my second one, the first one had a line going straight across, they replaced it. Now this one the last two blocks on the display are out.
Im thinking of doing the upgrade kit to the Vega for them when they come out.