What is your longest lived?
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sheracr123
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I have had my Porc for about 4 years. I can't believe all he's survived!!!:happy:
Mendee
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tsl
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Everyone says it is difficult to keep a carpet, but I have found that it is the hardiest and easiest to keep invertebrate that I have ever owned.
I rarely feed it, maybe once every two or three months. I just make sure it has good lighting and that is about all. I have two clowns that have been hosting in it for years and they take care of feeding it. Before I cook fresh shrimp I usually set one aside for the anemone and feed him that.
I rarely feed it, maybe once every two or three months. I just make sure it has good lighting and that is about all. I have two clowns that have been hosting in it for years and they take care of feeding it. Before I cook fresh shrimp I usually set one aside for the anemone and feed him that.
smarls
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snowflake eel, and a purple tang...both about 3 years old.
Cleaner shrimp (x3) all about 2 years old.
And for the first two years, I had NO idea what I was doing (not that i know what I am doing now...but that's another story), so this is a testament to how sturdy mine are...I am hearing "i'm a survivor" playing in the background right now!
Coral, well only had those for about a year now, but I have yet to lose one....so rics, zoanthids, LPs (hammer and frogspawn), tubistrae, and shrooms.
I am sure some poeple are about to make those efforts look puny...but it just shows, we still have so much to learn!
Cleaner shrimp (x3) all about 2 years old.
And for the first two years, I had NO idea what I was doing (not that i know what I am doing now...but that's another story), so this is a testament to how sturdy mine are...I am hearing "i'm a survivor" playing in the background right now!
Coral, well only had those for about a year now, but I have yet to lose one....so rics, zoanthids, LPs (hammer and frogspawn), tubistrae, and shrooms.
I am sure some poeple are about to make those efforts look puny...but it just shows, we still have so much to learn!
tsl
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I don't have a blue carpet, it is the green variety.
I will try to get some pics up soon. Right now the anemone is kind of shrunk up because the clowns laid their eggs to close to it and they keep bitting it to keep it away from the eggs. That has happened on a few other occasions as well.
I will try to get some pics up soon. Right now the anemone is kind of shrunk up because the clowns laid their eggs to close to it and they keep bitting it to keep it away from the eggs. That has happened on a few other occasions as well.
tsl
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When I first got it the carpet would move around quite a bit. I also lost a couple of tangs and two cleaner shrimp during that period to the carpet. After the first year or so, it found a place that it really liked and stayed there. When I upgraded my 75 to a 120, I put it in about the same place in the tank and it hasn't moved in 2 years.
tsl
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I rarely feed the carpet. Maybe once every three months or so. When I do feed it, I feed it fresh Louisiana brown shrimp, speckled trout or red fish pieces. I only feed it fresh seafood that I have caught or obtained fresh. I don't think I have ever bought any frozen foods from the pet store to feed it.
My anemone is not huge, nor do I want it to be. I would say it has the diameter of a small cantalope. Anemone's need light more than they need food to sustain themselves.
What is funny about this anemone is that I bought it when I first started in this hobby and really knew nothing about keeping a saltwater tank. I didn't even have lights on my tank when I started and I put this anemone in the tank. The tank was located in a room that had windows for walls on two sides so it got a tremendous amount of sunlight the first year that I had it. Then I moved and put it under VHOs and that is all it has ever needed to remain healthy and happy. It is at the bottom of my tank near one side next to a rock. It never moves more than half an inch to either side.
I have moved or changed tanks 5 times since I have had this anemone and it always comes through like a champ. Really a hardy animal.
My anemone is not huge, nor do I want it to be. I would say it has the diameter of a small cantalope. Anemone's need light more than they need food to sustain themselves.
What is funny about this anemone is that I bought it when I first started in this hobby and really knew nothing about keeping a saltwater tank. I didn't even have lights on my tank when I started and I put this anemone in the tank. The tank was located in a room that had windows for walls on two sides so it got a tremendous amount of sunlight the first year that I had it. Then I moved and put it under VHOs and that is all it has ever needed to remain healthy and happy. It is at the bottom of my tank near one side next to a rock. It never moves more than half an inch to either side.
I have moved or changed tanks 5 times since I have had this anemone and it always comes through like a champ. Really a hardy animal.
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iluvfish
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I have two clowns that have been hosting in it for years and they take care of feeding it.
What kind of clowns? I have a green carpet also. I had an clarkii clown that took to it right away, but he died. I now have a perc (and will be getting another one soon) but he doesn't go anywhere near it.
tsl
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Two percula clowns. I have had them for years. They are both tank raised and they didn't know what to do with the anemone at first either. It took them a few months to take to it. I guess since they were tank raised they had no idea what it was.
Your carpet looks about the same size as mine, although mine is a little darker.
Your carpet looks about the same size as mine, although mine is a little darker.