What Color is Your Carpet? {pics please}

[Xtrakritical]

Im running 1-175 watt MH XM buld
1-55 watt actinic
1-65 watt 50/50
on a 36gal 30"x15"x18" to the sand bed mounted about 8-9" above the water I thought that would be plenty.

[barebottoms]

I just saw these 2 at my LFS. The green one's "glow" really minded me of the Japanese green one BonsaiNut Posted on the first page.

[Vert20]

Light Green Carpet under Actinic only...

[liv4speed1]

Gary Majchrzak: I was browsing around on my computer today when I found this.... deep_throat.avi....wondering what it is it struck me that it was one of your clowns in your carpet . Just thought I'd dig up that old video

my girlfriend wasnt to happy with that until she realized what it was

[Gary Majchrzak]

Sorry, the link to that video is dead. The movie showed my Saddleback Clown disappearing completely into the carpet anemones mouth.

These are gorgeous anemone pics, folks!

[BonsaiNut]

Only one pic of a S. gigantea however And that S. gigantea is three + years in captivity.

They are really becoming rare in the stores. I have only seen two in the greater LA area in the last six months. They are my favorite anemones too...

[Rendos]

I have had this blue haddoni for a little over a year in a 33 gallon cube, but moved him to my 54 corner tank 2 weeks ago. So far he is doing well. Moving around a little trying to find a spot where he will be happy. My female maroon clown is absolutely in love with him. I got lucky and picked this up in a LFS that had no idea what it was. They said he keeps eating all the fish and they just wanted to get rid of it...I paid $35.00. At the time he was about 9 inches in diameter...now he is about 13 inches.
This is him in his new home.

Here he is in the 33 gallon tank.

[JasonD]

Pikey,

What lighting did you have your blue carpet under in the 33 gallon cube? It looks great!


Jason

[TIGER SHARK]

Gary - How about sharing that great video again?

[barebottoms]

Pretty sure this is gigantea

[Gary Majchrzak]

thanks to richdragon32, this link is just too good not to include in this thread. Check out the colors of all the carpet anemones!
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/news/c...t/anemones.htm

[richdragon32]

You're welcome

Well to add, here's mine a day after I got him. He's much bigger now.


It's under actinic lights.

[AJ_77]

Thanks is right!! Those pics are amazing, with good bits of info too!
I notice that the babies are all brownish, and the adults are the amazing variety of colors... how do different strains of algae end up with the anemones (and produce those colors)??

[arcab4]

here's mine!

does anyone's haddoni have dots on the backside? the place where i got it from still tells me it's a gigantea. trying to find some info.

[kmu]

HI there, I have a 20g Reef Tank with a 29g Ecosystem sump, well I think I decided to go for ligthing with the hellolights 4x55watt PC retrofit about 5 inches form water surface, with 2 10,000k and 2 Actinic 03...

Could I be able to keep a carpet with this light?

I plan on upgrade later in the future to a 60 cube and just transfer the PC retro and add an extra 150 HQI pendant and run all 4 PC with actinics 03 only...

THX in advance...

[kris4647]

Arcab :

From
http://biodiversity.uno.edu/ebooks/ch1.html

Deeply-folded oral disc (more pronounced with size), covered with short (average 10 mm), slightly tapering tentacles that typically all vibrate constantly

I'll let you check out the guide and form your own opinion. The Gigantae's Ive seen generally have the small tapering tentacles similar to the one in the pic posted by Bare Bottom in the other [Purple Monster thread]. They also twitch together which is amazing to watch.

The dots on the column are referred to here

Non-adhesive verrucae on upper column blue to maroon, contrasting with yellowish, pinkish, tan, greenish-blue, or gray-green colum

Hope that helps..........

[Racenrich]

Great pics. Really like the BLue!
Here is a pic of mine:

Carpet in 90g

This guy is about 4 months old in my tank and about 6 inch wide.
I put him up front to start and moved about 6 inchs and hasnt moved since. No clowns yet!

Question: Do you a Tank Raised clown would catch on to him as a host?

Loves raw SQUID!

Cheers.

[arcab4]

kris4647

thanks for the info!

i'll have to snap a new picture since that was taken the day it arrived. the tentacles are about 1/2 inch long and they all twitch and move around like seperate entities. very cool.

that is an excellent page you found. i bookmarked it. =)

[Gary Majchrzak]

Originally posted by arcab4
does anyone's haddoni have dots on the backside? the place where i got it from still tells me it's a gigantea. trying to find some info.

Check out the pic in this thread:
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...hreadid=234746

kmu- a 20 gallon is not large enough for host Pacific carpet anemones. There is a 'mini carpet' species available that would do well in your system, though...

[Maury]

Here's my blue carpet that I've had for a few months now. A pair of saddlebacks now call it home

[mr9iron]

Those are some beautiful anemones that were posted. The wife and I picked up a green S. Haddoni today. I hope to post a pic of it sometime soon. I have wanted this critter for a couple of years and just now felt that I was ready to keep it. Wish me luck!!! I have a pair of tank raised "false Percs" now and I am hoping they will accept it as a host. I eventually want to replace my percs with a couple of skunks.

[missy1101]

my little green monster. been with me for a bit over 3 yrs. I swear it grows 3" a day. I come home and do a head count of fish just to be sure.

[Elmo18]

haha Missy, had to laugh at that one


- Elmo

[capnskunk]

does anyone know of a good WYSIWYG site for anemones? theres not much selection of them around here. thanks

[BonsaiNut]

My purple S. gigantea: