Tough little Haddoni

slimreb

slimreb

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Well I just thought I would post this because I was extremely shocked to see this. I live in Biloxi so I got hit hard with Katrina. Well to make a long story short my house had a little over six feet of water inside from this storm. So naturally my tank went under also. So my tank took a lot of really nasty dirty brackish water from this storm. It took me 4 days to get to my house after the storm to check on everything. Well you can imagine my surprise that my Green Haddoni had survived this extreme shift in tank specs along with my two percs. When I got there my percs where swimming vertically and breathing really hard and the Haddoni had a very nasty slim coating around itself. I took them out of the tank then moved them to my sister-in-laws 55G tank until everything is done at my house and the tank is set back up. Well I am happy to report that the percs are doing great and the carpet is returning to normal. So it is unbelievable that this haddoni which is a hard to keep anemone could survive the amount of pollution that was in that tank with no water movement and no lights for 4 days with so many dead inverts and fish in the tank also. Just thought you all here would like to hear this story.
 
Simply amazing!!!. It is great to hear some good news coming from down your way. Good luck piecing your lives back together. May your clowns be an inspiration to us all.
 
Thanks for sharing the story. Good luck getting every thing back together.
P.S. I bet your little friends were glad to see you made it safe too.
 
Great! Glad to hear that you and your animals made it.

When your new tank is ready, I will be happy to donate a few frags :)
 
Thanks all for the comments. It was a great relief to see that my pride and joys some how made it through all this alive. When I saw that my house had flooded I assumed the worst for everything in my tank. But to see those two percs still swimming and the Haddon not being a glob of mush brought me much joy beyond words. I have had these percs from the beginning of my saltwater experience so really did not want to lose them.

I think when I rebuild my house I will add a little room onto my living room and make my tank an in-wall so I can use a much bigger tank for a sump than what I was using. The fun parts is going to be getting all those little critters going again when the tank is setup again. My pods population was high enough in my now destroyed tank to support two Mandarins and a bi-color blenny and keep them fat and healthy.

On a side note right now the tank that my Percs and Haddon is in also has about 5 RBTAs and two other mated pairs of clowns in it, being a pair of GSM and a pair of Cinnamon clowns. So that is three sets of clowns inside a 55G until my tank is back up and running. The surprising part is that no fighting has started between all these clowns even after them being together for about two weeks now. Though the female cinnamon clown is really trying to get into the Haddon but my female Perc is a mean little sucker when it comes to her home. Even though she is much smaller than the Cinnamon she is keeping it at bay and out of her home.
 
MarksReef said:
P.S. I bet your little friends were glad to see you made it safe too. [/B]
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You know I bet they were indeed happy to see that I made it safe. When I was getting them out of the tank I was able to get them without a net. In the tank I am in now every time I look at the tank my two Percs come out of their Haddon and with stay right in front of me. As if they are extremely happy to see me. I am just heart broken that I was not able to save more of my tank. I had two Mandarins in that tank (Male and Female) that had done the funny Mandarin mating dance the night before the hurricane came in. So to see that they had finally started to mate then this happens is hard to deal with, but at least my family and me made it through alive and in good health, plus being able to save some creatures is what counts.
 
I figured I would respond to this thread instead of making a new one.

As of a week ago I am happy to report that my Haddon Carpet and two A. Percula are happily inside their old but new home. I know it is not the standard waiting period that a lot of people recommend to wait for a tank to mature. Though I had a lot of help from Tampa Bay Saltwater in getting my tank back together and have been testing my water every three days. So far everything is in very good shape.

The Haddon is doing great though has lost some of its dark green color as the tank it was in had low lighting. It has adjusted well to being under the Metal Halides again and is eating like a hog.

I have also recently put a Ritteri Anemone into the tank and it is doing super also. It has stayed where I had placed it inside the tank high up on the rocks and with strong random water flow directly below one of my MHs. The Ritteri was placed into the tank on Thursday and has so far eaten twice since then, though they were small pieces of krill and shrimp. The anemone still has a tightly closed mouth and is really looking beautiful.

I will try to borrow a friends digital camera as mine was lost in the storm to take some pics with. Once I am able to do that I will post those pictures up for everyone to see.

I must say a thank you to everyone here that had posted their success stories on how to keep a Ritteri as that has helped me be able to keep one. I know it is still early to call this a success but this one is doing 100x better than the previous attempts I had made. I got this Ritteri from MarineDepotLive.
 
Wow thats truley amazing. Although, the haddoni carpet is one of the easiest anemones to keep not the hardest. But still that is remarkable.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7630797#post7630797 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by 55semireef
Wow thats truley amazing. Although, the haddoni carpet is one of the easiest anemones to keep not the hardest. But still that is remarkable.
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Thats rather interesting 55semireef. From everything I have read it is generally stated that S. Haddoni are hard to keep anemones. I know they are not the hardest to keep of the carpet family but they are not as easy to keep as say BTAs and the like.

Though I could be remembering incorrectly.
 
Nope. BTA's and Haddoni's are among the easiest anemones to keep. I think you are thinking of Gigantea carpets. Now those are real difficult to keep and only for experts. Regardless, your anemone must have been in great shape to live something as dramatic as that. Remember, lots of people died, but an anemone lived. How does that work out?
 
55semireef----why would you make a comment like that?? even though haddonis maybe an easier anemone to keep, apparently his house and tank were flooded.. therefore power/heat water movement probably all lost.. then the fact of who knows what happened to the salinity level and water quality for four days..that is just an ignorant remark.. sometimes anemones/corals/fish cant survive a tank move, let alone a tank flood..

slimreb---- thats awesome its doing so well.. be sure to get pics when you can that would be great to see..how long has the tank been set up??
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7631680#post7631680 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by SVXH6
55semireef----why would you make a comment like that?? even though haddonis maybe an easier anemone to keep, apparently his house and tank were flooded.. therefore power/heat water movement probably all lost.. then the fact of who knows what happened to the salinity level and water quality for four days..that is just an ignorant remark.. sometimes anemones/corals/fish cant survive a tank move, let alone a tank flood..
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Are you trying to start an argument? I was just making a correction and then I went on to say how remarkable it was that it lived despite all the dramatic events. I am sorry that you took learning the wrong way.

Still anemones are one of the simplest creatures but one of the hardest to keep.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7631518#post7631518 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by 55semireef
Nope. BTA's and Haddoni's are among the easiest anemones to keep. I think you are thinking of Gigantea carpets. Now those are real difficult to keep and only for experts. Regardless, your anemone must have been in great shape to live something as dramatic as that. Remember, lots of people died, but an anemone lived. How does that work out?
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Ok then I guess I will stand corrected. I had always seen books and people stating how hard the S. Haddoni are difficult to keep. As stated I knew that they were not the hardest to keep carpet that one being the H. Gigantea.

I still believe that trying to get a healthy Haddon is very difficult from most LFS as most are rather bleached and in bad shape. So is the case from some of the online fish stores as well.

One never knows why things work out the way they do 55semireef. I lost everything in my tank but somehow this tough little bugger survived all this. The other anemones in the tank did not do so well those being a couple RBTA and a Rock Flower Anemone.

No worries about how things were written here I did not take any of them as being rude or anything like that.
 
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