Steve, I don't know what to tell you ... why obsess over anything? Some things excite some people, other things excite other people. I don't know about right or wrong. It's a fine line. I'm sure you'll agree with me that there are many things in the hobby that shouldn't be attempted by "just anyone" but if you endeavour to recreate the correct environment, you may just do well by things. Clams, SPS, etc., these can be finicky setups but that's not to say it's impossible to have success with them ... I feel the same way about anemones. Challenging at time, for sure; but certainly not beyond our grasp if we continually try to challenge ourselves.
So why obsess over a carpet? I don't know? I just do.
This one, for me, is a particularly exciting find to me, because it is something rare (at least by me, I think it is) and not only that, this one appears to be healthy and doing well. Another point of interest is that there are two species of host anemones that are natural symbionts for BOTH percula and ocellaris. This is one of them, and the other is
H. magnifica (ritteri's).
So anyhow .. I hope this makes some sense? I'm not sure. At any rate, anemones just happen to be a favourite topic for me.
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I took a few pictures of the verrucae today. Unfortunately the pictures didn't show the contrasting purple all too clearly, so I had to kind of play around in Photoshop with exposures and whatnot to try to make the picture show correctly. Unfortunately this is the best I could come up with:
