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Old 08/22/2006, 08:51 PM
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Id for carpet anenome please
Bad pic may not be useful, thanks.
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Old 08/22/2006, 08:58 PM
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Interesting looking anemone for sure.
Is there a "macro mode" on your camera? Perhaps using the camera's flash will help you take a clearer picture...
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Old 08/22/2006, 09:29 PM
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Thats the best one I can get. It was sold as a saddle. It looks like a ricaodea.
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Old 08/22/2006, 09:47 PM
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MY guess is haddoni,mabe a mertensii but I doubt it.
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Old 08/22/2006, 09:50 PM
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The only thing is he attached to a rock and has been there for a week. Is this normal for haddoni?
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Old 08/22/2006, 09:52 PM
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The only thing is he attached to a rock and has been there for a week. Is this normal for haddoni?
Not typically.
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Old 08/22/2006, 09:55 PM
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Interesting looking anemone for sure.
Agreed.

Seems a few of the "small" carpets have been popping up lately. It would be nice to get a good close up
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Old 08/23/2006, 03:03 PM
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It was also attached to a hard surface in the stock tank. Any guesses according to behavior.
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Old 08/23/2006, 03:51 PM
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My first instinct is to say its a ricordea. But... Like Traveller7 said, there have bee a lot of micro carpets showing up, in purple, blue and teal. There is someone out there that has perfected forced splits to the nano level on carpets. But I've never seen any that small so far.

Can you try to feed it a small mysid shrimp? Tell us if it actually opens it's orafice to eat it, or if it refuses and does nothing. If it is an anemone, it'll expand it's orafice to chug it down, otherwise it's probably a Corallimorph.
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Old 08/23/2006, 04:56 PM
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My first instinct is to say it's a Stichodactyla tapetum mini carpet anemone, but I won't.... at least not yet.

We'll definitely need a clearer picture of the anemone.
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Old 08/23/2006, 05:19 PM
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Really bad picture, but looks like a Florida Ricordia or something to me.
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Old 08/23/2006, 06:23 PM
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There is someone out there that has perfected forced splits to the nano level on carpets.
Not a likely scenario at this time.

If it is an anemone, I would lean toward the species Gary indicated. It would appear a batch of "S. tapetum" are currently available. Really going to need a better picture to ID this specimen.
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Old 08/23/2006, 09:24 PM
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Not a ricordia, wish it was with that color. It opeans to eat like any anenome does. I will get a better camera from and post pics.
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Old 08/23/2006, 11:02 PM
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From the way the tenticles seem to line up, the color, and the color of the mouth... I would guess to say it is a small haddoni
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