Green Carpet Anemone

[michaelp]

Jim just dropped off my new inhabitant!

 

[gimincorp]

She's gorgeous!

 

[michaelp]

Fingers crossed that she stays like that

 

[ClosetFishGeek]

Good luck ...I love carpet anemones...

 

[michaelp]

I'm hopeful. Here's a pic from today, 24 hrs later. The good signs are her mouth is nice and tight, and she's clearly got herself all the way down in the sand with her foot on the bottom of the tank. The iffy part is she's very tightly closed at this point. I don't think the little bit of black gunk floating around there is really of any concern.

 

[masterswimmer]

Beautiful carpet Michael. BOL with this one.

Russ

 

[michaelp]

He looks better now than he did in that last pic. I think he's happy. Er, MUCH happier than my other one was after 24 hours.

Ugh, invertebrates are so hard to care for.

 

[House of Laughter]

Michael,

I fed the anemone 3 days ago, so, that gook is waste (poop) .

updated pic would be nice - enjoy and keep us posted.

Jim

 

[michaelp]

Ignore the color here, but you can see his shape is really good now (like when I first put him in). Good signs.

And for fun a picture of the fish you gave me

 

[Euroreefer]

That carpet looks great.

 

[michaelp]

What did you feed him? Was it like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IlFSBfvXIo&feature=related

 

[House of Laughter]

now we're talking - feed it thawed silver sides - it'll do fine.

House

 

[reefman]

thats mighty mean to feed a live fish :irked:

 

[Marteen]

Nice carpet! Those zoas are going to be toast though.

 

[mckostya]

this is great species, i hope it does well for you. it adds color and look into your tank.

 

[michaelp]

I know about the zoas. Sucks too because they are really wild colors. So far they seem to be ok though. Who knows... maybe the far side will start to spread away from him, so even if the near side gets zapped it will be ok.

 

[cthoughts1]

Gorgeous carpet anemone.. I hope to get one just like that soon.. Best of luck with it..

 

[michaelp]

he looks even better now. he's doing great! hooray!

 

[masterswimmer]

he looks even better now. he's doing great! hooray!

Now THAT'S what I'm talking about

swimmer

 

[michaelp]

Just an update a month later. It is now quadruple the size it was when I got it... uh, I wish feeding him wasn't such an awesome thing to watch

Check out the size of the zoas in the first pic I posted in comparison, and then look at how my anemone compares to them now...