Red, Blue and Purple Carpets

arcab4 · #1 10/12/2006, 01:19 PM

took some pictures to show a friend today so i thought i would share them here...

red carpet - i've had this one for a few months already. at first it kept on moving and i would have to readjust all my corals but it seems to be okay now. it seems to like to open up like a pancake and the foot diameter is a solid 6" or so.

blue carpet - got this 2 days ago. so it's still acclimating to my tank probably but i totally digg that blue.

purple gigantea:
this one i'm kinda bummed about. had it for over a year..but a few days ago after feeding, it started to go downhill it seems.

the purple a few weeks ago:

The purple now.

not quite sure what caused it. any ideas?

sonofgaladriel · #2 10/12/2006, 03:40 PM

Beautiful red and blue haddoni's there! Sorry to hear about the purple gigantea. It was a very nice looking specimen! I hope it recovers for you. I wonder if adding the new ones had anything to do with the purple's demise?

55semireef · #3 10/12/2006, 03:49 PM

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Originally posted by sonofgaladriel
Beautiful red and blue haddoni's there! Sorry to hear about the purple gigantea. It was a very nice looking specimen! I hope it recovers for you. I wonder if adding the new ones had anything to do with the purple's demise?

Yeah I am thinking that adding those two other carpets may have caused your Gigantea's decline.

arcab4 · #4 10/12/2006, 03:53 PM

the purple one was in there first. it's been co-existing with the red one for months. it was after one feeding that it started to decline.

i added the blue one after the decline started.

maybe it was something it ate? but i fed the same food to the red one (silversides).

55semireef · #5 10/12/2006, 04:01 PM

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Originally posted by arcab4
the purple one was in there first. it's been co-existing with the red one for months. it was after one feeding that it started to decline.

i added the blue one after the decline started.

maybe it was something it ate? but i fed the same food to the red one (silversides).

From what I have heard, anemones can have chemicle warfare with each other and gradually decline over a long or small period of time, sometimes unnoticable.

Another possibility is that you fed a bad silverside to your Gigantea. It could have just been a bad one in the clutch.

And sometimes there is no explanation to why anemones die on us despite how strong our lighting or how great our water is. It just happens. We are not the ocean. We can only emulate it.

phender · #6 10/12/2006, 06:11 PM

If it happened all of a sudden and it happened the day after you fed it, I would suspect a bad piece of fish.

OrionN · #7 10/12/2006, 06:19 PM

Bad piece of food can cause the demise of an anemone. It happened to me.

55semireef · #8 10/12/2006, 06:22 PM

Thats what I suspect too now.

delphinus · #9 10/12/2006, 10:43 PM

Bummer. Hope it pulls through, dunno what else to say.

It looked very nice. The other carpets look very nice as well. Good luck.

R33f3r · #10 10/13/2006, 08:22 AM

I agree, food poisoing. Have had it happen to one of my magnificas.

LesMartin · #11 10/13/2006, 08:35 AM

It's happened twice to my purple gigantea. Looked exactly the same as yours and this was after feeding. I can only agree with the others that it was a bad piece of food. Both times it was silversides. The up side is that after both incidents it made a full recovery which took about a week. Best of luck.

cooper9177 · #12 10/13/2006, 11:11 AM

We had the same thing happen to our green carpet. We thought it might be chemical warfare with our long tentacle.

arcab4 · #13 10/13/2006, 01:03 PM

thanks for the input. the good news is that it's still firmly attached. i'll continue to monitor it's progress.

davidandliz · #14 10/13/2006, 01:19 PM

We just purchased a red carpet anemone that looks just like yours we also have 2 percula clownfish (young) because we read that it was there host anemone. i think it ate my female percula. i thought they didnt eat them. we feed the carpet krill so i dont understand why it would do that.

R33f3r · #15 10/13/2006, 02:38 PM

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We just purchased a red carpet anemone that looks just like yours we also have 2 percula clownfish (young) because we read that it was there host anemone. i think it ate my female percula. i thought they didnt eat them. we feed the carpet krill so i dont understand why it would do that.

Percula unfortunately become meals to haddoni's. I lost a pair in 6 hours to one of mine a few years back. Saddlebacks are the natural host, but I prefer clarkii's as they are not as mean IME. Perculas will host in magnificas, bta' (sometimes), and s. giganteas.

55semireef · #16 10/13/2006, 03:07 PM

The reason I never fed silversides to my anemones is because I have heard to many stories of bad ones that can lead to food poisening. I feed my anemones just shrimp and sometimes raw pieces of fish.

arcab4 · #17 10/13/2006, 03:40 PM

the red one wouldn't take krill so that's why i switched to silversides.

hmm...reading more and more about hadonni and percula's not getting along. i was going to start a percula clan in my tank...

55semireef · #18 10/13/2006, 03:48 PM

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Originally posted by arcab4
the red one wouldn't take krill so that's why i switched to silversides.

hmm...reading more and more about hadonni and percula's not getting along. i was going to start a percula clan in my tank...

Even if it did take krill, its not really as healthy for them to take silversides or pieces of shrimp. I personally feel like choped up small pieces of shrimp is the best just because they are less likely to carry pollutants within them. Remember, as the days go on, humans pollute the ocean by dumping trash, draining our sewage, or dumping nuclear waste. There is the possibility of having one of those silversides carrying some type of pollutant and so when you feed it to your sensivtive Gigantea, its going to become very sick.

rkelman · #19 10/13/2006, 06:15 PM

My 2 percs are still living with my Haddoni so far... They don't host it yet though. Likely will never.

OrionN · #20 10/13/2006, 08:25 PM

I don't think polutant is the problem. Iit is spoiled food that would cause the anemone to get sick.

55semireef · #21 10/13/2006, 08:37 PM

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Originally posted by OrionN
I don't think polutant is the problem. Iit is spoiled food that would cause the anemone to get sick.

Have you researched it??? I have and have seen that it is a major problem. You would be suprised at what research can do.

SuperNerd · #22 10/13/2006, 08:42 PM

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Originally posted by 55semireef
I feed my anemones just shrimp and sometimes raw pieces of fish.

Exactly what types of shrimp and exactly what types of fish (don't worry will not ask for a link

)?

SuperNerd · #23 10/13/2006, 08:46 PM

arcab4: What's your setup like?

OrionN · #24 10/13/2006, 09:28 PM

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Originally posted by 55semireef
Have you researched it??? I have and have seen that it is a major problem. You would be suprised at what research can do.

Common sense 55semireef

Did you do any research before concluded that polution is what cause these problem?

SuperNerd · #25 10/13/2006, 10:32 PM

See as reefers we don't settle our intellectual disputes with our fists...we splash each other in the face with makeup water.