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Delphinus
04-25-2005, 02:48 AM
Look what I found :mrgreen:

http://members.shaw.ca/hobiesailor/aquaria/anemones/newcarpet.jpg
sumpfinfishe
04-25-2005, 02:59 AM
That's a sweet a$$ chunk'O shag you got there Tony :mrgreen:
Aquattro
04-25-2005, 03:15 AM
Looks good Tony!!
AJ_77
04-25-2005, 03:29 AM
Looks sticky! :biggrin:
christyf5
04-25-2005, 03:34 AM
Awesome Tony!! :cool:
Canadian Man
04-25-2005, 03:50 AM
Where from Tony?
whaase
04-25-2005, 03:57 AM
Looks Good, was that from Golds? I know I saw one somewhere, either Golds or Big Al's...

Walter
LostMind
04-25-2005, 04:30 AM
That's AWESOME.

wow.
muck
04-25-2005, 05:14 AM
It looks great Tony!!
Darn it I want one now... :mrgreen:
psuedo
04-25-2005, 05:29 AM
anybody have any luck keeping these with only pc lighting?

ps. it does look great
Beermaster
04-25-2005, 03:06 PM
Nice carpet, looks good
Delphinus
04-25-2005, 04:14 PM
It came from Big Al's. It came in on a shipment from about a week and a bit ago. I resisted as long as I could (about a whole day, just ask Nate). It has only been in my tank for a couple of days so it is a little touch and go, still at the moment, but it was looking pretty good yesterday so I thought I'd try a few pics. The colour came through nice on this one.
Tarolisol
04-25-2005, 04:15 PM
anybody have any luck keeping these with only pc lighting?

ps. it does look great

PC light would equal death for carpet anemones. The need strong lighting.
Troy F
04-26-2005, 03:57 AM
Very cool, how long are the tentacles?
StirCrazy
04-26-2005, 04:05 AM
is that one going to eat fish?

Steve
AJ_77
04-26-2005, 04:21 AM
is that one going to eat fish?

Steve
great question
Delphinus
04-26-2005, 05:09 AM
Tentacles are about maybe 5mm in length at the moment.

I'm not 100% certain of the ID but I'm thinking it could be S. gigantea. I'm basing my guess on a couple factors. First, it came in on an order with about 4 or 5 other carpets which were very clearly S. gigantea but brown. It doesn't tend to lay flat like S. haddoni instead being all folded up. It's verrucae on the pedal disk are purplish. It hasn't buried its foot into the sand but it attached to rock above the sand. But, I could be wrong. I think its ID will become more obvious if it grows a little (it's very small at the moment, even if laid out flat it would barely cover a 6" diameter, but bunched and folded up it's more like 4").

So anyhow if it's gigantea the answer to the "will it eat fish" is "I don't know." If it is haddoni then the likelihood is definitely there. My other tank has a gigantea carpet (see picture here (http://www.canreef.com/photopost/data/506/92Sgigantea_20040621-med.jpg)), it has not taken down any fish, in fact my mandarin would sleep right underneath it (was very unsettling the first few times I saw that, but, they made peaceable if strange bedfellows).

It is fairly sticky but not quite as much so as the haddoni I used to keep (now in Golden_69's tank). :biggrin:
Delphinus
05-06-2005, 05:11 AM
A few pics from a couple days ago. I was trying to play around with the Photoshop settings and the end result makes it look a little unnatural. My photoshop skillsz are second only to my tank photography skillz! (Word.)

Anyhow just wanted to show the progression. Tentacles are now 10-15mm in length, and the anemone maybe now about 8" across, eating and accepting mysis and even the occasional flake food.

http://members.shaw.ca/hobiesailor/aquaria/anemones/carpet1.jpg
http://members.shaw.ca/hobiesailor/aquaria/anemones/carpet2.jpg
http://members.shaw.ca/hobiesailor/aquaria/anemones/carpet-closeup.jpg