Carpet Anemones

[riccio]

What do you mean "moves around"? Carpets shouldn't be on the move, they find a spot and stay, when they're happy and healthy.

 

[jimreemts]

he is always open and has good color and eats great. But he moves about once a month to a different spot in the tank. He has three sexy shrimp on him. The top side of him close to the mouth is still missing tenticals.

 

[beadmaker]

s. gigantea gets up to 19 inches s. haddoni gets 39 inches! s. mertensi is also 39 inches. s. heianthus is only 12 inches. all need 100 gal tank or larger. according to my book if they are not fed enough they will wander looking for better hunting grounds.

 

[emeralcrab]

Don't want to steal thread but I have one on hold at my LFS, two clowns are busy hosting it. He has had it about 3 days, I can leave it as long as need be. ( with this thread I may leave it 2 months ) I know they will eat other fish, I have 3 clowns and a lawn mower blenny, only plan on maybe a tang for algae. Would I have to worry about the blenny and tang?
Wondering if it is worth it. My LFS has one that is about 18 yrs old with the same maroon clown, they have tried putting other fish in with it and the clown grabs it and puts it in the carpet. So that is the only fish that is in the tank.
How often should you feed it to keep it happy and in one place?

 

[stokedhawk]

I have a ca in a 125gal tank and when it opens to it's fullest it seems to take up a big portion of the tank. They are very cool, but do get really huge. It hosts our clarkii clown that does try to feed it anything it can pick up. We have to be carefull when adding anything new to the tank. The clown put a brand new turbo snail in it once. And when we introduced a baby blue hippo tang, it grabbed it and was on it's way to the anenome, but luckily we were watching and scared the clown into letting go of the tang. It did try again awhile later but we scared it again. (just by moving our hand quickly in front of the tank