Confirm haddoni pls

OrionN · Jun 1, 2020

Carpets and be many colors, but the most colorful ones are Haddoni carpets. Gigantea can also look nice but never achieve the color of the most beautiful colorful Haddoni carpets.

jsvand5 · Jun 2, 2020

bobcam said:
Yep, almost ALL colored carpets are Gigantia. Haddons are generally striped and variations of green. mertens have thin bodies and also almost always green or tan.

? That’s definitely not true.

AlexAbel197 · Jun 3, 2020

beautiful nem!

sprungson · Jun 4, 2020

Hi all, here's an update on my entire tank. I'm pretty much done and plan on building a 250gal in the next few months

sprungson · Jun 5, 2020

@OrionN the red carpet just started to loop gapping this morning. All the other carpets look fine (2 gigs and 2 other carpets). Should I pull him out and start treatment or just monitor for now?

It was a little wider this morning, but as I'm writing this I can see he's in the process of closing his mouth slowly.

sprungson · Jun 5, 2020

sprungson said:
@OrionN the red carpet just started to loop gapping this morning. All the other carpets look fine (2 gigs and 2 other carpets). Should I pull him out and start treatment or just monitor for now?

It was a little wider this morning, but as I'm writing this I can see he's in the process of closing his mouth slowly.

5 min later.

OrionN · Jun 5, 2020

I would just watch him and see. Open mouth is nothing to worry about if that is all it is. If he deflates then it is another mater.

D-Nak · Jun 5, 2020

Just FYI, a friend of mine just dropped off his blue gig that he purchased from Neptune around the same time you did. It's deflating and expelling dead zoox, and I'm planning to start treatment tonight. Definitely keep an eye on all of the Stichodactyla in your tank.

sprungson · Jun 5, 2020

D-Nak said:
Just FYI, a friend of mine just dropped off his blue gig that he purchased from Neptune around the same time you did. It's deflating and expelling dead zoox, and I'm planning to start treatment tonight. Definitely keep an eye on all of the Stichodactyla in your tank.

Thanks for letting me know! I'll have Cipro and tank ready

sprungson · Jun 6, 2020

@D-Nak @OrionN

What do you guys think? He looks a little deflated or shrunk this morning.

sprungson · Jun 6, 2020

Here is a pic of it a couple weeks ago

Here it is today, 5 min ago. It looks smaller and shrunken. Note it is now attach to sand bed instead of a rock.

OrionN · Jun 6, 2020

He looks healthy. Dig in. Don’t worry about him. How deep is the sand there?
Are there two red Haddoni there ?

sprungson · Jun 6, 2020

OrionN said:
He looks healthy. Dig in. Don’t worry about him. How deep is the sand there?
Are there two red Haddoni there ?

There's 3 or 4 inches, it's a deep sand bed. Also the one on the left is a pink haddoni

chizerbunoi · Jun 6, 2020

I would leave it alone. When it deflates they pancake flat in the tentacles.

For your tank upgrade I would make sure it’s cycled very well before transfer. I wouldn’t disturb the sand from this tank to transfer over.

more pics of magnifica if you can please.

sprungson · Jun 6, 2020

hard for me to get a good shot.

chizerbunoi · Jun 7, 2020

Nice. Now leave your tank alone. Your making a lot of big changes very quickly, let the bacteria in the new DSB catch up. You don’t want to crash. Remember that nothing good happens fast.

Congrats on reaching the one year mark.

sprungson · Jun 7, 2020

chizerbunoi said:
Nice. Now leave your tank alone. Your making a lot of big changes very quickly, let the bacteria in the new DSB catch up. You don’t want to crash. Remember that nothing good happens fast.

Congrats on reaching the one year mark.

Yup I'm done with the tank. I'm in the process of setting up two new nano tanks. Then the 220G

sprungson · Jun 13, 2020

@OrionN @D-Nak I have a question for you both. Most, not all my anemones (bta, ritteri, gig, haddonis) all stick their stomach out at night, but in the morning(sometimes it only stays like that for a couple hours) they are all completely back to normal. Have you both experienced this? I read on other forums it could be allelopathy, but then again people say there is no evidence for that with anemones. Thoughts?

Bta

Gig

Ritteri

OrionN · Jun 13, 2020

What you see there are not happy anemones. Something is stressing them out. You need to correct it or else they will go down hill.

sprungson · Jun 13, 2020

OrionN said:
What you see there are not happy anemones. Something is stressing them out. You need to correct it or else they will go down hill.

I'm not sure what to change. Within a couple hours they all look normal again. I'll check my water parameters in the morning and see if it's because of something there. I haven't touched my flow or light. The only thing I've changed recently was feeding twice a day instead of once a day.