New Carpet Anemone (S. Haddoni).

Yuki Rihwa · Sep 9, 2017

Hi All! I just received a free small S. Haddoni from a local dude (long story short that he has no clue about keeping fish and he bought this carpet like 2 weeks ago and put it in Fluval Spec V tank, ended up he got bored...) Anyway, now I have the carpet and my question:
Does it look OK after 2 weeks under stressed?
I took the picture when it's in my tank. It's seem a bit bleached to me but I'm not an expert, I'm still new to Anemone.

The new fish on the block · Sep 9, 2017

It does look bleached to me.

Amoo · Sep 9, 2017

Have you got those T5s up and running yet?

Yuki Rihwa · Sep 9, 2017

Amoo said:
Have you got those T5s up and running yet?

Yes, t5 are up and running.
4x T5 - 21w each
Do I have enough light to keep my anemone happy?

Amoo · Sep 9, 2017

whatb bulbs do you have in them and how deep is the tank and how far off the water are the lights hung?

Yuki Rihwa · Sep 9, 2017

Amoo said:
whatb bulbs do you have in them and how deep is the tank and how far off the water are the lights hung?

T5 Actinic (Blue Light) tank dimension 36 x 18 x 17 Aka 40B Breader Tank (47.7 Gallons)
The T5 fixtures sitting right on top the tank rim, the distance from water surface to the light around 1 inch, the distance from substrate to water surface 13 inches so it's 14 inches from the light to substrate.
Here is picture before and after T5 installed, BTA does look different.
OLD LIGHT (BTA look like its reaching up for Light)

OLD LIGHT + 4x T5 Actinic (blue light)

It's look compact rather than loose looking than previous picture.
Oh, BTA sitting around 6 inches below the light.
Only Carpets are on the sand bed.

Amoo · Sep 9, 2017

yeah BTA is looking much better from your other threads. That poor carpet is definitely bleached, but your friend may have got it that way. Either way your light should be sufficient, just keep an eye on the bulbs that close to the surface they may get salt spray on them from splashing water. You could probably safely move them up a few inches, unless you have them so close because of over-spill or a hood or something. Give it a couple of days get settled then you may consider starting feeding something small like some mysis twice a week.

Yuki Rihwa · Sep 9, 2017

Amoo said:
yeah BTA is looking much better from your other threads. That poor carpet is definitely bleached, but your friend may have got it that way. Either way your light should be sufficient, just keep an eye on the bulbs that close to the surface they may get salt spray on them from splashing water. You could probably safely move them up a few inches, unless you have them so close because of over-spill or a hood or something. Give it a couple of days get settled then you may consider starting feeding something small like some mysis twice a week.

Thanks for kind words

I'll try to do all I can to make my live stock happy while they are in my care

Lance M. · Sep 9, 2017

What bulbs do you have?

I also have a 40B with four bulb 36" T5's. Currently 1x ATI Actinic, 1x ATI Coral+, 1x ATI Blue+, and 1x KZ Purple. It is a old sunlight supply TEK fixture, I swapped out the stock workhorse ballasts for HEP ballasts about two months ago.

I've only had the actinic on for two weeks, swapped a Blue+ for it to see how it goes. I was not getting the color I wanted from my chalices on the sand with the 2x Blue+ setup.
Also have a brand new aquablue special to play with. In the past (before the coral+ bulb existed), I only used aquablue specials and actinics.

Agree, your bta's are looking better.

Yuki Rihwa · Sep 9, 2017

Lance M. said:
What bulbs do you have?

I also have a 40B with four bulb 36" T5's. Currently 1x ATI Actinic, 1x ATI Coral+, 1x ATI Blue+, and 1x KZ Purple. It is a old sunlight supply TEK fixture, I swapped out the stock workhorse ballasts for HEP ballasts about two months ago.

I've only had the actinic on for two weeks, swapped a Blue+ for it to see how it goes. I was not getting the color I wanted from my chalices on the sand with the 2x Blue+ setup.
Also have a brand new aquablue special to play with. In the past (before the coral+ bulb existed), I only used aquablue specials and actinics.

Agree, your bta's are looking better.

My T5 just standard actinic blue bulb, your t5 ATI are more power, I believe its 39w each bulb.
I used all 4x actinic bulb because I running those T5 along with my Orbit Marine LED with white (daylight) LED @25% intensity to get the ocean blue water look color theme (you can see my first BTA picture took under 100% daylight intensity, it's too bright for me).

Yuki Rihwa · Sep 11, 2017

After few days it seem to settling and the more I look at it the more I think it's not a Haddoni, its tentacle is thin and quite long and it's totally look different then my current Green Haddoni in term of tentacle appearance, It does look more like Gigantea.

Lance M. · Sep 11, 2017

Yuki Rihwa said:
After few days it seem to settling and the more I look at it the more I think it's not a Haddoni, its tentacle is thin and quite long and it's totally look different then my current Green Haddoni in term of tentacle appearance, It does look more like Gigantea.

Updated pictures?

Yuki Rihwa · Sep 11, 2017

Lance M. said:
Updated pictures?

And below is my Green Haddoni

It's just ate a piece of shrimp, you can see the tenteacle look like a bead (ball) and very short. If you were stand in front of my tank you can notice the new carpet tentacle 3x time longer than the green one.

Lance M. · Sep 11, 2017

Cool. Looks good. Hard to tell. Do you remember what the underside of the nem looks like or have a pic? Have spots on the column?

Yuki Rihwa · Sep 11, 2017

Lance M. said:
Cool. Looks good. Hard to tell. Do you remember what the underside of the nem looks like or have a pic? Have spots on the column?

I didn't pay attention on that, it's now buried into the sand bed. It's cool, I think I'll wait for it to grow a bit bigger for better look.

videosilva · Sep 11, 2017

Either that picture is REALLY close up of those tips look REALLY big for a carpet never seen them that big ??

videosilva · Sep 11, 2017

The more I look at that picture the less I think its Haddoni Anemone follow the provided link below for reference.

https://www.google.ca/search?q=hadd...hJ7WAhVm44MKHaxhBR4Q_AUICigB&biw=1280&bih=593

videosilva · Sep 11, 2017

On a side note the Anemone looks healthy.

Yuki Rihwa · Sep 11, 2017

Thanks all for the information.
I love them both no matter what, I'm just curious about it ID cause it does look way different than the green one (I know its hard to tell in picture)