New carpet

[sumpfinfishe]

Steve,
Carpets don't ship too well at all, not to mention that most suppliers tend to ship BTA's now as there are the latest fad. It's been at least 4 months since I have seen a healthy looking carpet around here, so I'm sure that has a lot to do with Tony's excitment. Also it's pretty much a sure host for percs and most other clowns

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by sumpfinfishe

Steve,
Carpets don't ship too well at all, It's been at least 4 months since I have seen a healthy looking carpet around here,

so isn't what you wrote just more reason not to buy them? you don't see people running out and buying Moorish idols because they don't ship well and are short lived.

but aside from the rant I was really wondering what sets this one off from other carpets and made Tony obsess with finding this particular species. (I know he has been looking for it for a long time)

Steve

[BCOrchidGuy]

Nate should get transfered out here.... whadda ya say Nate?

[Delphinus]

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.

...

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:

[Buccaneer]

Is it in your SPS tank Tony ?

Also is it possible for that small Ritteri @ Oceans to survive with my 2 BTA's ?

[Quinn]

Awesome Tony. Can't wait to see it.

[Delphinus]

Also it's expanded quite a bit more today. Here's another shot.



PS. Are these pictures showing up for anyone? The annoying thing is, they're not showing up for me! But the URL's look correct, maybe Shaw has got some kind of server issues (or maybe my PC has issues?)

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

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PS. Are these pictures showing up for anyone? The annoying thing is, they're not showing up for me! But the URL's look correct, maybe Shaw has got some kind of server issues (or maybe my PC has issues?)

no.

thats cool, I was just wondering if there was something special about this carpet, like weird coloring ect.. I know all about obsessing over silliy things.. with me its equipment

Steve

[Delphinus]

Shaw seems to have corrected their server "issues" now..

I know all about obsessing over silliy things.. with me its equipment

You don't say

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

You don't say