Slurpeeatwork
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My carpet look good 30 minutes ago and now clown is not happy with it. What's wrong with it? What's wrong?!!
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What's wrong with Carpet?
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Slurpeeatwork
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Maybe I was over reacting. Now it looks perfectly normal again. I've had an anemone before but not a carpet. Now it looks normal again and clowns are doing summersults in it. I know that it didn't eat anything because I only fed the BTA today and I still have all my fish.
Is this normal behavior for a carpet?
Is this normal behavior for a carpet?
elegance coral
They call me EC
It's normal behavior for a very sick anemone. It will either start crashing like that more often until it dies, or it will recover. No one knows for sure. The pic doesn't look good though.
Slurpeeatwork
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It looks great now (like the one in my gallery). It was very healthy in the LFS (not so local, 30 miles away) and is still very sticky. How often does a carpet need to be fed?
elegance coral
They call me EC
I feed mine a small piece of food about once a week, if he's lucky. I don't really have a set schedule. I would feed him more, but I don't want him getting any bigger.
Toddrtrex
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As for feeding, I feed less then "elegance" maybe every 3rd week or so, but my reasons are the same.
I also have to agree that what you are seeing is normal for a Haddoni going down hill. I hope that I am wrong, but I don't think that I am.
Here are a couple of pictures of a "sick" one that I had.
Would go from this,
To this,
And this, all over the course of a couple of hours,
It did that for about a week, one day I would think it would recover, and then the next it looked like death. Finally it stayed looking like death and was removed as it started to fall apart.
I also have to agree that what you are seeing is normal for a Haddoni going down hill. I hope that I am wrong, but I don't think that I am.
Here are a couple of pictures of a "sick" one that I had.
Would go from this,
To this,
And this, all over the course of a couple of hours,
It did that for about a week, one day I would think it would recover, and then the next it looked like death. Finally it stayed looking like death and was removed as it started to fall apart.
Slurpeeatwork
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I've only had it for 2-3 days now and it looked great in the store. The water quality is really good in my tank and I had it tested before I purchased the clown trio and anemone. The LFS that I purchased it from was really knowledgable and has the largest quantity of fish, inverts and corals, especially corals that I have seen. I have a LFS that is 3 miles from me and they are crap! I drove 45 minutes to get to this one. I'm hooked on this LFS and spent $250 in two days.
Slurpeeatwork
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I have a 55 with 4 48" VHOs. 2 Aquasun and 2 Super Actinics. I have the sump return for flow and a Hydor Koralia 4 for flow. All other corals in take are very happy. The tank temp is 77 deg F since I raised the canopy the other day.
Ken_wied
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I had a carpet like that, it was maybe 15" when fully open. Looked great in the LFS, and did the same posture changes and w/in a week it died. It was the worst smelling thing I have ever dealt with, and I'm a paramedic.... But my water conditions were great. I got a Sebae Anem about 2 months later, and that one is doing great, albeit sitting on a devil's hand coral at the moment.
Slurpeeatwork
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I went and purchased some frozen krill and thawed out a piece or two. I fed it with a feeder stick and the carpet attacked the food. It didn't take long for it to disappear. I was amazed on how fast it closed up around it. The carpet is also still very sticky.
Slurpeeatwork
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This is 20 minutes after I fed it.
Slurpeeatwork
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how often should I feed it? All 3 clowns attempt to lay in it when the lights go out. The clown in the picture is almost always around or in it. I was reading the other thread about force feeding it, but my carpet is eating on its own.
Toddrtrex
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I have seen that thread about force feeding, and I am against force feeding an anemone.
3 clowns is going to be an issue onto itself in the future. And 3 of them being hosted by it night could cause a good deal of stress, given the size of it.
I would feed it, at most, once a week, and small portions, so they are easier to digest.
All of my Haddonis (( have 4 of them )) are fed maybe once every 3 weeks.
3 clowns is going to be an issue onto itself in the future. And 3 of them being hosted by it night could cause a good deal of stress, given the size of it.
I would feed it, at most, once a week, and small portions, so they are easier to digest.
All of my Haddonis (( have 4 of them )) are fed maybe once every 3 weeks.
Slurpeeatwork
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I have a green BTA in the tank too, but the clowns will not acknowledge it. I tried to get the clown to swim into it but they wouldn't.
tufacody
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If you nem reinflates and stays that way you may be ok, but frequent inflate/deflate is a real sign of trouble.
I'm kinda torn on the force feed thing. Your nem looks (perhaps) a little bleached, and could probably benefit from additional feeding. I feed my gigantea a pea sized chunk every 3-4 days, and so far the results have been great. That's what I'd recommend. If the tenacles are sticky, I don't think the need for force feeding is as strong as it would be with a nem that can't fire its nematocytes.
I'm kinda torn on the force feed thing. Your nem looks (perhaps) a little bleached, and could probably benefit from additional feeding. I feed my gigantea a pea sized chunk every 3-4 days, and so far the results have been great. That's what I'd recommend. If the tenacles are sticky, I don't think the need for force feeding is as strong as it would be with a nem that can't fire its nematocytes.
Slurpeeatwork
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I have new VHOs that will be here tomorrow. I was wiping down the tank and somehow two bulbs were upside down. The reflective side was down. Hmmm ... tank is a little brighter now. I'm not a good photographer on with the white balance thing, but the carpet does have hints of green in it. Can you tell if this carpet is suppose to be green or brown?
Slurpeeatwork
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I had to post this. This is what's left of the krill that I fed it a couple hours ago. The clowns really helped the carpet spew it back out.
