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02/15/2019, 02:31 PM | #1 |
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Is this a mertens?
Saw this at the LFS. They said it came from a customers tank who bought it originally from World Wide Corals. The white tentacles are throwing me off. It’s bigger than a dinner plate.
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02/15/2019, 02:57 PM | #2 |
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yup
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02/15/2019, 03:00 PM | #3 |
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Look like it. It's huge.
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02/15/2019, 03:22 PM | #4 |
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Yes it is. They were coming in pretty regular a few year ago and the not so much. They were poor shipper's . If there were anymore please send me a pm of where you located the mertensii.
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02/15/2019, 09:52 PM | #5 |
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Nice
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02/18/2019, 06:57 AM | #6 |
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great find!
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And I will pile on to say yes, it is a merten's carpet. Oh, and last time I checked, Amazing Reefs and Aquariums in So. Cal had a couple small ones. I don't know if he ships or not.
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02/19/2019, 01:17 AM | #9 |
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They get huge, and when they get bigger they usually lose most of their color and turn into a drab brown nem that takes up a lot of valuable real estate.
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03/04/2019, 10:13 AM | #11 |
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Wish I had one available local.
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