What Color is Your Carpet? {pics please}

[Ron Popeil]

austin, you sly dog you. wonderful looking anemone.

[GSMguy]

[catastrofe]

My yellow gigantea:

[illcssd]

Beautiful gigantea catastrofe.

[adtravels]

heres mine for the record

[bergzy]

greeeeeeeeeen neon top down shot...

[ViPeR_930]

Here's my red.

[Quatro]

I don't know if I posted mine in this thread, but here is mine. Had it for like 5 years, but died when I stupidly introduced a sick green carpet =(

Far right (back in like 99 or something)...

In the dorm room nano...

With the black ocellaris...


Justin, we think alike Beautiful!!! Did you pick that baby up from Atlantis?

[ViPeR_930]

Thanks Harry! Sorry to hear about yours, looks really nice. I saw the other pics in your photobucket album too. I got mine from Aquatic Bliss about a month ago.

[GSMguy]

Nice reds guys thanks for sharing

[55semireef]

Here's mine. I bought it bleached but it will probably turn green in a couple of months or so.

[illcssd]

Bergzy, can you post a pic of the underside of that carpet? Looks like a mertensii to me, and its beautiful.

[Zestay]

mine.. is red =)

[55semireef]

Originally posted by illcssd
Bergzy, can you post a pic of the underside of that carpet? Looks like a mertensii to me, and its beautiful.

Looks Haddoni to me.

[catastrofe]

Originally posted by illcssd
Bergzy, can you post a pic of the underside of that carpet? Looks like a mertensii to me, and its beautiful.

My thoughts also from what I can see of the tentacle structure and the fact that it's on the rockwork.

[illcssd]

Sorry 55semireef, but i strongly dissagree. Alot of people havent seen the difference's. But the way that carpet is displayed, tentacle structure, And just from experience. 99% that is a mertensii anemone. A Very beautiful one.
Compare that picture with this one:

[adtravels]

I reserve judgement on bergzys nem till we see the underside,
Very tough call as it appearers to be in the rock work only.
Strongarguments for both.
gut feeling mertens due to the more oval shape, positioning.

nice whatever.

[delphinus]

FWIW, I had a green haddoni that looked *exactly* like bergzy's. When I bought it, it was perhaps 6" to 8" diameter, and for the first year or so it prefered to stay on the rockwork. As it grew larger and older, it changed its preference from rockwork down towards the rock/sand interface. This is consistent with what I've read somewhere that juvenile haddoni's prefer rock attachment whereas mature adults are dwellers near the rock/sand interface (sorry don't have an URL or article I can reference, it's just something I remember reading years ago -- it may have been one of Shimek's articles though).

I wouldn't rule out mertensii and certainly I would not really argue with you Austin THAT adamantly because you have more experience with mertensii's, but based on that one picture alone I would not rule out "juvenile haddoni" at this point.

Wager on!

PS. Either way it is a beautiful carpet.

PPS. I know that the carpet I'm talking about was pictured at one point earlier on in this thread. Unfortunately not posted by me as it was posted by AJ_77 whom I had sold the carpet to when it had outgrown the tank I had for it. I'm going to go look and see if it's still showing up (hopefully the picture hasn't disappeared, this is going back something like 4 years now!)
(Edit/"PPPS": ah bummer it's gone. Only picture of it in this thread is in AJ_77's avatar, in the post on page 2. Oh well, life goes on I guess..)

[illcssd]

Eh, we will see. It's very possible that i am wrong and this is a haddoni. Especially considering he has only had it a few months and it started out at 4 inches. Maybe its the topdown shot thats screaming merten's at me, but my instinct is telling me thats what it is. I'm curious to see what the underside looks like.

[illcssd]

Now, since i have completely gone off topic from this thread. I will see if i can Contribute to this thread again.
Unfortunetly with this haddoni i can not capture the right colors with my camera. It is darkish redbrown, with green and white spots all over it. Its beautiful and about 20 inches across. Here is the pic, like i said, it doesnt capture any of the colors of it.

[55semireef]

illcssd, very nice picture of your mertens. Didn't you buy it purple though?

I gave bergzy's picture a better look and now I am starting to see some Mertensii in it. The fact that its on the rocks and its tentacle structure leads me to say its a Mertensii. I also noticed that the tentacles farther away from the mouth are more roundish however as the tentacles get closer to the mouth, they become noticably longer. If I remember correctly, Mertensii tentacles do the same thing with the outside tentacles being smaller and round while the inside tentacles become longer.

I still think it could be a Haddoni because it has so many tentacles that are such in a small compact space. I still have seen Haddonis on the rocks many times before. This could be one of those times.

[illcssd]

The last picture i posted is of a 20+ inch haddoni.

[bergzy]

Originally posted by illcssd
Bergzy, can you post a pic of the underside of that carpet? Looks like a mertensii to me, and its beautiful.

i'll try and get a pic of the foot when it shows itself!

[55semireef]

Originally posted by illcssd
The last picture i posted is of a 20+ inch haddoni.

Wow that is an unusual looking Haddoni. Looks like a Mertensii. I wouldn't be suprised if it was a cross.

[illcssd]

I believe its a haddoni. Nothing about that anemone in person points to mertensii. underside, mouth, tentacle structure. perfers sand. It is a haddoni.