Help Carpet Anemone

ponokareefer · #1 02-11-2013, 03:41 PM

While carpets love light, they sometimes need to be slowly acclimated to it. It is possible you have blasted it with too much. Turn it down for a while to see if it helps. Carpets will just die for no apparent reason though.

Delphinus · #2 02-11-2013, 05:02 PM

Can you post a picture? The reason I ask is that it's still not really clear what species it is. The 3 big carpet species (excluding minimaxi types), Stichodactyla haddoni, S. gigantea, and S. mertensii have differing survivabilities post-collection. Generally speaking after a month or so they are all pretty hardy, but that first month can be really dicey. Haddoni is usually not too bad in this first month period. Gigantea is usually terrible. The problem is handling techniques in the chain of custody from collection to retail. Mertensii, I'm pretty sure you don't have mertensii, they are VERY rare to show up in the hobby, and that is possibly a good thing because they get beyond enormous (think 30" diameter).

White generally means reduced or a complete lack of zooxanthellae. Currently the amemone is not really reaping any direct benefit from the light anyhow, so I would agree with reefwars to turn down the light a little in the short term.

Good luck!

Goxy · #3 02-13-2013, 04:09 AM

Hey guys,

I got found my chromis dead in the overflow and when I used a new test kit for nitrate it was 20 ppm. I have done a 30% water change and it is holding it's shape a little better. The anemone was white with a slight green tinge when I bought it. I have been feeding it every three days with amphipods, brine shrimp directly and I add cyclops-eez for the other filter feeders I assume he gets some of that too. The dkh was 9. I will post a picture. His foot is green.

Thanks for all the advice.

Goxy · #4 02-13-2013, 04:13 AM

the tank is 2 ft deep and is 160 gallons with a 40 gallon sump.

Goxy · #5 02-16-2013, 06:31 PM

Thanks for all the help, when I went to take a picture of the anemone it was already disintegrating. I pulled from the aquarium. I will remember what you guys said for when I get another one but that won't be anytime soon.

Goxy