Carpet Anemone Lovin, show off your Carpets!!!

[Christopher Davis]

Found his happy spot!!! Eating and foot is planted!!!

 

[elfda]

Found his happy spot!!! Eating and foot is planted!!!

Yay!!

 

[Christopher Davis]

Yay!!

Here are some cool pics I got today! I'm still tryna figure out if this is really a peach carpet... I can't find FAQs about it anywhere.

 

[Taylor t]

Found his happy spot!!! Eating and foot is planted!!!

Lol-feed that anemone often and it will grow bigger than your tank! Feed it very sparingly and you can keep it in there for a good while. Mine started out small too. They can grow very fast.
You should start a thread of your own and keep it updated. Not many people have them.

 

[Taylor t]

It's not a peach carpet. It's a s.mertensii.

 

[Christopher Davis]

It's not a peach carpet. It's a s.mertensii.

See that's what I told the people at the dang fish store I purchased it from and they insisted that it was a peach... pretty frustrating feeling like I
Just got ripped off then. Paid 75 for it...

 

[elfda]

Here are some cool pics I got today! I'm still tryna figure out if this is really a peach carpet... I can't find FAQs about it anywhere.

Those pics are incredible! [emoji7]

 

[Christopher Davis]

Those pics are incredible! [emoji7]

Thank you! iPhone7!

 

[javman9]

Holy s%#^ that's massive very impressive!

Wow when my carpet got that big it started eating my clowns among other fish that got to close. Love carpets but I'm afraid to own another one.

 

[elfda]

Wow when my carpet got that big it started eating my clowns among other fish that got to close. Love carpets but I'm afraid to own another one.

I've read that keeping them well fed can help minimize the likelihood of their snacking on your fish?

 

[Christopher Davis]

I've read that keeping them well fed can help minimize the likelihood of their snacking on your fish?

I was going to say the same thing so far mine eats a couple pieces of mysis a day!

 

[elfda]

I was going to say the same thing so far mine eats a couple pieces of mysis a day!

Every day I wasn't on shift, I lost a damsel from the tank with the huge carpet, because my coworkers didn't feed it. T-T

Ravenous beasties, for sure!

 

[elfda]

Edit: ...annnd my phone opened the wrong thread. >_>

 

[Christopher Davis]

Hey get that bubble tip outta here!

 

[Christopher Davis]

Well I can now understand why these things eat fish!!! I've never had an anemone with this kind of an appetite! And is it just me or does it look like it's already getting bigger? I've increase lights to 30% intensity and more flow!

Snaking on multiple pieces of mysis while holding on to some for when it's done stuffing its mouth!

 

[Ron Popeil]

See that's what I told the people at the dang fish store I purchased it from and they insisted that it was a peach... pretty frustrating feeling like I
Just got ripped off then. Paid 75 for it...

s. mertensii anemones are very hard to come by and are typically a lot more expensive than $75. i wouldnt say you got ripped off, you certainly got the better end of the deal! i find that mertens carpets also dont eat fish as readily as haddoni carpets do. just dont feed it and it will grow MUCH slower.

 

[Christopher Davis]

s. mertensii anemones are very hard to come by and are typically a lot more expensive than $75. i wouldnt say you got ripped off, you certainly got the better end of the deal! i find that mertens carpets also dont eat fish as readily as haddoni carpets do. just dont feed it and it will grow MUCH slower.

My LFS had it listed at 100, I got them to drop to 75! Great news then! I want it to get about a foot across then I will slow its growth! Clowns don't seem to interested in it yet, but I'm sure that will change!

 

[Christopher Davis]

heres my blue carpet very proud of it

How hard is it to keep blue carpets?! I am considering making a purchase!!! Would you go blue or red?

 

[Christopher Davis]

That last one is a haddoni. Common with those stripes.

For lights, my tanks are 100% LED. I'm using reefledlights.com XTC fixture with home center 5k spots added next to the XTC fixtures. Spots are not dimmed. XTC is running at about 95% intensity. 1.5 hour ramp time up and down.

9:00 XTC starts ramping up.
10:30 XTC at 95% intensity.

5k spots on at 12:00
5k spots off at 8:30

9:30pm XTC start ramping down.
11:00 XTC is in night mode, replicating actual current moon intensity all night.

Carpets do really well with rediculous amounts of light.

Great! I have adjusted my lighting to be more white and I brought my intensity up ramping from
5%actinic blues
15%+ramping to full
20%+
25%+
30%full spectrum
15%actinic

 

[Taylor t]

Here's a picture of my blue carpet. Both a front view and a

side view.

Color doesn't make them more or less difficult. Blue, green, purple, brown, all the same care.