So I am going to be getting my first carpet anemone. What to do?

Conrad25

Conrad25

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So I work first shift and have a question for everyone. I will be receiving my first carpet anemone via Fed Ex overnight and will get it tommorow. I won't be home right away, so I will have it delivered to my work where I will be and can keep it out of sun or cold depending on weather etc and it will be in my warm office. Would it be best to bring my small ten gallon tank I have laying around with 5-10G of my tank water and bring one powerhead and a heater etc and acclimate here and get water movement to it while it sits with me here for probably 6-8 hours pending when they drop it off? Obviously I would like to go home right away and get this in the 75G tank, but it may have to wait a few hours and I know shipping stresses them the most. So do I leave it in the bag or drip acclimate it and put it in the 10 gallon for a few hours with all the essentials like heater, powerhead etc?

Also I will take some pictures to show you guys and I'm pretty sure its a S haddoni, whats everyone think so far with just the pictures I got from the vendor? :bounce2:

Thanks in advance for everyones help
Conrad

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Looks more like a gig. Also, I would just take the day off and receive the package at home to acclimate ASAP. Some companies will want a pictures in a few minutes of receiving the nem should it be DOA or close to it. Just my $.02 though.
 
On a side note, I will be happier its a gig, but heard they are harder to keep. So hope it goes good. I got a great price on it and can't wait. Maybe I will work till it gets here and than head home with it and get it done right away. I been contemplating it already just not sure If I will be able to get away from work as there is not many of us...

Conrad
 
Looks like a quality speciman congratulations. I know its hard to do but maybe you could take some time off and come right back a couple of hours later after you put him in your tank.


Jason
 
Yeah it looks like a gig. I saw it on ebay its nice. Just make sure you read up on giganteas needs because they are so much different than haddoni. Also gigs are known to be poor shippers so I would get it home asap.
 
Yeah I just talked to the vendor and he was not sure if it was a haddoni or gig and he looked at his paperwork and it said it was a S Gig and the tenticles are half inch atleast he said. He also has ordered these a bunch of times and has never lost one shipping it to a customer. He saids a great looker and is very healthy. I will be reading up on gigs more now than I did before when I was researching. It does not appear that I will be able to get home right when I get it, so it will be an extra few hours before its in my tank. He said he has had it for 2-3 weeks and its been very colorful and happy. Also said he has had a ton of questions asking if it was a gig or haddoni but could not figure out what kind it was till I asked if he could look at the orig. vendor paperwork. He said it will be getting boxed and I will have it tommorow and it looks like it will be shipped within the next two hours. So I'm guessing that it will be in a box for 12-18hours pending on when fedex gets here.

Yes I did get it on ebay from a vendor with great feedback and it cost me $155.00 shipped to my door which was a great price from looking around


Thanks
Conrad
 
How do you tell if it's a S gig or S haddoni? I have a green carpet and it looks like the pictures from "Conrad25" but has very short tentacles.
 
I'm curious also. I know that you are supposed to be able to tell by looking at the footing and all that. But no one can give me a positive on how you can tell one from the other? Is the mouth not have tenticles around it on a gig and they do on a haddoni? How do you tell besides tenticle length?

Conrad
 
chuckdallas said:
How do you tell if it's a S gig or S haddoni? I have a green carpet and it looks like the pictures from "Conrad25" but has very short tentacles.
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Post pics so we can id it for you. Haddoni carpets are sand dwellers. Giganteas are rock dwellers. The biggest give away is that the anemone in the picture is on a rock. Gigs also have longer tentacles and the verracue on gigs are more noticeable.
 
Alright, so this I dripped acclimated it for over an hour and now its sitting a temporary tank till I get it into the large tank at home. No lights on this tank except sunlight. Whats everyone think? I'm almost positive its a GIG now as it has min. 1/2" tenticles and longer it appears. Colors pretty good and it seems happy so far with my water I brought from my tank to acclimate it etc. It also has purple spots under neath the carpet. It was not attached to a rock or anything when I got it though, Foot seemed to be in good shape along with the rest of it all

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Is the tank water really that cloudy? Or is it just the picture?

Does the temp tank have any powerheads? Heater? And how big is it?
 
Water is not cloudy at all. Just that the sun is reflecting in it. I only have a point and shoot camera. The tank water temp. is 80.2. I'm holding the carpet in a 10Gallon right now till I get home and it will go into my 75G tank.

Yes it does have a Maxi Jet in it and a H.O.B. filter right now. Also has a heater and digital temp reader I'm using.

This is all just temporary as I had to work today, So I did a water change this morning and took 10 Gallons of water, brought it work and set the 10G up and drip acclimated it when the anemone got here.
 
2Addicted said:
If you have it in the sunlight I would move it. That could be extremely stressful for it.
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You could also just close the blinds :) Sorry, couldn't resist :)

The one you received sure doesn't look blue, it almost looks red/purple? In any case, congrats on the new carpet. Hope the transfer to your tank goes well. Look forward to more pics!
 
No it wasn't in the sunlight, just had some reflection going on from the window near by. I closed it so it for sure doesn't get any. Its Purple. It was described as Purple/blue. But I knew it would be more purple looking at the pictures and I'm happy with Purple as it doesn't appear to be as common as blue's and its neat. Can't wait to take it home and stick it in the tank. It looks very happy and healthy. It stopped stretching out and stuff within an hour and found a spot on one side of the tank for now.

So everyone agree's its a gig than?

Thanks
Conrad
 
lps keeper said:
please correct me if im wrong but i believe if it has spots its a gig nice nem btw
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The "spots" (( called verrucae )) can be seen on all of the "carpets". They are very very obvious on S. mertensii, slightly less so on Gigs, and very faint on S. Haddoni. But, the differences b/t all three are pretty apparent after seeing a bunch of them.
 
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