What Color is Your Carpet? {pics please}

[benf]

I was curious to what and how often you are feeding the carpets?

 

[benf]

Ok, I know some of you are feeding shrimp couple times a week, but how many per feeding and do any of you feed them silverslides?

 

[MAthU]

i feed mine 1 shrimp, every week sometimes twice a week. it dont like silverslides.

 

[microbubbles]

my carpet matches the curtains
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haha. sorry- had to go there.

 

[Maury]

I alternate between shrimp, scallops and silversides. Both my carpets and my Rose eat them all.

 

[natedogg]

can you have multiple carpets in a 180?

 

[Mishap]

My green S. ????, not sure what kind! Ordered from Fish Mart Inc. on July 7th 2005, been in my 30g ever since.

Diet consists of krill, silversides, and squid. Fed twice a week, rotating between the 3 foods every week. It has also eaten my poor little Arc Eye hawkfish and numerous hermits/snails.

 

[FastUno]

Funny you should mention the Arc Eye hawkfish, cause I had mine for a long time, then suddenly he disappeared. I think the AEH like to perch themselves on rocks/objects and as a result are easy targets for the carpet.

 

[catastrofe]

My blue haddoni thinks it's a bubble tip!!

<img src=http://images.fotopic.net/?iid=y4apet&outx=600&noresize=1&nostamp=1>

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

nice pic, cat.
For everyone asking about the care of carpet anemones:
first identify the species you are discussing. Use the anemone FAQ at the top of this forum if necessary. Husbandry for the different species of carpet anemone varies.
Here's a pic of my blue Haddon's anemone showing the substantial column (which is typical of the species) inflated a bit.

 

[sirreal63]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6085476#post6085476 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Gary Majchrzak
Nice find, Cherryproperty! Got fish for them?
I've had some help finding some very unusual carpet anemones since starting this thread, but my camera is in need of repair- so I can't show everyone a picture just yet. I have permission to use someones elses shot of these rare anemones.. so I can only tantalize you guys with this pic for now.

Hi....hope someone can help here. I have one of these beauties but have not had much luck in finding out what it really is. I keep getting conflicting answers. Here are a few pics of mine. It is about 5" at the moment but I am sure it will grow nicely.

No Flash

With Flash

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

Hi, sirreal63. It appears that you have the large morph of S. tapetum. I have a couple specimens of the same color morph (as well as some other color variations).

 

[sirreal63]

I have not been able to discover anything about this variety. Have any helpful links?

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

No links- sorry. Sprung mentions that there is a large morph of S. tapetum (somewhere). There is a pic of a large morph in his book, "Invertebrates- A Quick Reference Guide".

Hopefully, I'll have another camera soon and I'll be sharing some new pictures with everyone.

 

[sirreal63]

That would be great. Google didn't turn up much either. It is a beautiful specimen.

 

[delphinus]

I might have guessed Cryptodendrum adhaesivum (pizza anemone) ... So, I'm curious: What makes you think Stichodactyla tapetum over that one?

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

Cryptodendrum grows to a larger size and has two distinctly different shaped tentacles. These anemones look and behave exactly like my (smaller) Stichodactyla tapetum, which were physically examined and identified by Shimek and Sprung.

 

[delphinus]

I'm not trying to argue with you Gary, just trying to learn what the differences are. I swear I see two distinct shape of tentacles on those pictures, the (for lack of a better word) "main" tentacles which look like those of a haddoni, and the longer looking ones along the rim. So I'm guessing the two "shapes" of the pizza anemones are different shapes than these? Bear with me, I've only seen fleeting glimpses of pizza anemones and I've never ever seen tapetum so I wouldn't know what are the "differentiating characteristics" are, of either.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

Good close up pictures of Cryptodendrum tentacles are difficult to come by. If you do a google search of images, you'll see how the different tentacles are arranged on a "pizza anemone". Bulbous tentacles around a significant margin of the perimeter of the oral disc give the appearance of a pizza crust while glove- like tentacles are the "sauce" in the middle.

Stichodactyla tapetum has many color variations. Some specimens give the initial appearance of being a pizza anemone more so than others. Tentacles are shaped very similar in S. tapetum except for the elongated tentacles at the extreme perimeter of the oral disc. There are no radically different tentacles forming a significant margin like in Cryptodendrum.

Here's a picture of a Cryptodendrum taken by RC member ricordeaking. (I helped him resize his RC avatar so I hope he doesn't mind me using his picture here.) Not a close-up pic, but you can see the two radically different types of tentacles. This animal is also significantly larger than any S. tapetum.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

more comparison pictures

more comparison pictures

all of these are Stichodactyla tapetum (large morph variety)