AHHHHHH! Stupid Carpet Anemone is eating all my fish!

[midgetwaiter]

Originally Posted by GreenSpottedPuffer

Yeah so lights are out and its not fully open (after just eating ) but here is one of them.



Any ideas?

The tentacle shape looks like S. helianthus to me, sort of ricordea like. That squares with your "can't touch it" statement as well, those things sting like crazy. Like Tony said, here are some pretty good anemone iders on RC or you could try sending that pic to Fenner @ wet web media. I'm by no means an expert on these.

[untamed]

I think mine is haddoni. Based on the photo, I think yours is something else.

[Delphinus]

Brad yours is a haddoni but I think due to the large footprint of your tank, the "relative real estate consumed" by the carpet is proportionally much smaller than average. Thus the odds of a fish randomly stumbling into the carpet are much smaller than average (so to speak).

Justin, to me the carpet looks just like a smaller version of a haddoni, but I'm stuck on the fact you say it splits. Haddoni's just don't split, as far as I know. So I'm left with believing yours is indeed tapetum, and I guess we've just learned that tapetums are potentially very strong feeders much like haddoni's.

That's my guess anyhow.

[xtreme]

Check out this link:

http://www.wetwebmedia.com/carpetanemones.htm

Not sure if it will help with your ID but here is some pretty good info there.

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Someone on RC is saying stichodactyla helianthus which is the "dreaded" Atlantic Carpet Anenome. Eats everything including clowns. The problem with that is, it doesn't look like stichodactyla helianthus! Those ones clearly look different to me. I could be wrong though.

I don't know but I had a hard time even sleeping last night knowing my new mandarin was hanging out beside it. He made it through the night though. Apparently they should know to stay away from the thing. Maybe the little fish got mesmerized

Brad I agree, it looks a bit different from yours but it is way smaller so maybe thats why? I am going to take a pic today once its all open. In that last pic it was kind of closed still after eating.

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Originally Posted by xtreme

Check out this link:

http://www.wetwebmedia.com/carpetanemones.htm

Not sure if it will help with your ID but here is some pretty good info there.

Thanks, yes I was looking at this last night and this is how I came up with haddoni.

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Anyone want it? Hahahahaha...what am I going to do with this thing?!?