What Color is Your Carpet? {pics please}

[kmu]

Anyone know what type of carpet is this one? picture was taken without the lights on so it shows its true color...

 

[Toddrtrex]

S. haddoni.

Have a feeling it will get a bit darker in time -- very slightly bleached, nothing I would worry about (( unless it starts to get lighter )).

 

[nonstopfishies]

S. haddoni.

Have a feeling it will get a bit darker in time -- very slightly bleached, nothing I would worry about (( unless it starts to get lighter )).

I'd be worried some. The 3 corals in the picture all aren't doing well and if they aren't, I'd doubt the nem is going to do well.

 

[kmu]

What are you guys feeding your carpets?

 

[elegance coral]

What are you guys feeding your carpets?

Mine aren't picky. They grab food every day when I feed the fish. I typically feed them shrimp or SW fish meat. I have fed them all kinds of stuff from, whole crayfish, crab legs, clam, squid, even fresh water fish.

 

[kmu]

Mine aren't picky. They grab food every day when I feed the fish. I typically feed them shrimp or SW fish meat. I have fed them all kinds of stuff from, whole crayfish, crab legs, clam, squid, even fresh water fish.

would it be ok to spray them krill or brine shrimp with a turkey baster?

 

[elegance coral]

would it be ok to spray them krill or brine shrimp with a turkey baster?

There's nothing really wrong with that, if the anemone is healthy enough to take such small particles. With "carpet" anemones, I like to use something a little more substantial. These are large animals, capable of eating a lot of groceries.

 

[baudhya]

Got some anemones here as well.

For your critical appreciation.

Regards
Binayak Audhya

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Here's a current picture of my tank, showing my two giganteas.

The green/yellow I’ve had for about 14 months, and it was in another reefers tank for a year or so before that.

The turquoise one I got from Liveaquaria has been in the tank for about 10 months.

Interestingly, the juvenile of the spawning trio of ocellaris clowns in the green/yellow gigantea has never shown any inclination to move to the other gigantea and set up its own home there. Maybe it likes it current role.

Here's an uploaded version for anyone who cannot see the above picture (some locations block them):

 

[elegance coral]

Randy, has the copper band ever nipped at your anemones?

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

I've never noticed my Chelmon marginalis nip at the giganteas. It did apparently eat lots of aiptasia, which along with a ton of peppermints solved a huge infestation and now none are visible anywhere.

I have noticed it nip at some LPS, but usually only when a bit of food landed on them. They never seemed to be bothered much by these rare events.

 

[GSMguy]

Those Nems are beautiful. was the teal one from the divers den?

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

If you are asking me, thanks, and yes the teal gigantea was from the Divers Den part of Live Aquaria.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

nice, Randy!

nice, Randy!

Happy Holidays to you and yours. That teal is a beauty! My Copperband (C. rostratus... similar to C. marginalis) never bothers carpet anemones but my Klein's Butterflyfish pesters ALL anemones.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Thanks, Gary. Happy Holidays to you as well!

 

[Conrad25]

My carpet that I have had over a year now and has gotten deeper color than ever with my newer lights

 

[kmu]

Here is a 2 month update on my blue/green carpet


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[cubman20]

mine under leds 1.3 years old

 

[Blitzburggirl]

EC... thank you so much for the video.... I am in awe!!! I wish I had the tank space and dedication to run carbon, and do huge water changes, so, just please keep posting pictures and videos so I can enjoy yours! Your porcelain crab doing the wave was hilarious!

I have some questions for you if you don't mind....
Currently (180 gallon):

I have an LTA hosting a spawning pair of picassos (about 2.5 years together now...)

A year a go, I added a blue haddoni

Observations.

Clowns weren't spawning when the haddoni was added. They stayed in their LTA and paid absolutely NO attention to it. Then, two things happened, they started going in the haddoni for bits of time, but clearly being hosted by the LTA (they are close together- their choice, not mine. The haddoni moved within about 10 inches of the LTA) And, I noticed spawning. Not sure which came first, but, both activities happened last summer.

My percs choose to stay with their LTA when they are within a day or so of spawning, and through to hatch. Then, when they are on vacation, they go back to playing periodically in the haddoni, but still being hosted by the LTA.

Anyway, I also added two porcelain crabs, on in each anemone (as you see in the pics.) Within a week, both crabs ended up in the haddoni. And stay there. The clowns and crabs pay no mind to one another now. These pics were initial curiousity.

So, just like all reefers do, I'm shaking things up. I'm downsizing to a 60 gallon cube, and have obtained a 2 year captive blue gigantea. I'm moving my clowns to the cube with the gigantea next week. I don't care about hosting at this point, I'm sure they'll work it out eventually. LOL I'm interested in whether anyone has had porcelain crabs in a gigantea? All these pictures, and I haven't seen one with a porcelain crab in a gig...

In keeping with the thread, here are some pictures of my carpet anemones Sorry, I haven't gotten the hang of pictures with the lighting over the gig, so, those pictures will be next week.

Interestingly, when the haddoni travelled, toward the LTA, I was panicking. I actually put that little plastic divider there, knowing either of them could mow it down in a heart beat, but at least the tentacles couldn't touch incidentally. Oddly enough, the haddoni retreated about 8-10 inches and that's how they've been for nearly a year.

 

[Putty]

Can anyone tell me why I would want a carpet that would eat all my fish?