AHHHHHH! Stupid Carpet Anemone is eating all my fish!

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

This thing sounds mondo aggressive. Can you post a picture of the carpet?

The fact that it "splits" is a bit of red flag. It could mean that it is indeed a S. tapetum "mini carpet" but it could also mean S. helianthus which is an Atlantic species (and known to be an aggressive eater). I'm not sure how aggressive tapetum is supposed to be. S. gigantea and S. haddoni and S. mertensii are not known splitters (there are isolated stories of it happening, but generally as exception not the rule).

Just took one even though the lights are out. I am uploading it to photobucket now. I don't think I have Stichodactyla tapetum after looking at many pics on the web.

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

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



Any ideas?

[Delphinus]

I've never seen tapetum in person. It doesn't really look like S. helianthus to me though, they're sort of .. not sure how to put it .. "fatter". (Still smallish, but stouter tentacles). Might be worth posting in RC's anemone forum about the aggressiveness of tapetum?

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

I've never seen tapetum in person. It doesn't really look like S. helianthus to me though, they're sort of .. not sure how to put it .. "fatter". (Still smallish, but stouter tentacles). Might be worth posting in RC's anemone forum about the aggressiveness of tapetum?

Do you think it may be a large species that is just splitting a lot? Would that mean its unhappy?

[Delphinus]

To be honest it does sort of look like it could be S. haddoni (another super-sticky/aggressive feeder anemone). But I didn't know they could be splitters. I thought they were not, but ... maybe they can be after all??

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

To be honest it does sort of look like it could be S. haddoni (another super-sticky/aggressive feeder anemone). But I didn't know they could be splitters. I thought they were not, but ... maybe they can be after all??

This guy sure does split.

Sigh...I guess its going to have to go. I am going to read about them. I feed it silversides and it still eats my fish

Too bad though, I really like it!

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

It does seem to look an aweful like S. haddoni

I guess it would get pretty darn big if thats the case. Weird that it splits though. From what I was reading too, they shouldn't be too aggressive.

[Keri]

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?

Well, it's pretty, but I haven't seen any S. tapetum's that don't have multiple colours before.

[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.