Haddin Carpet no doing well

[AngelFly]

Parms are 5ppm NO3, .16PO4 , 1026salinity, PH 8.3. Do have algae cyan issues in 90gallon tank well established. Haddon Carpet not doing well do you think its the high
P04 ? Only had him for few months and it never eat . Suggestions please.

 

[backbayreef]

I’m no Haddoni expert but I have 4 of them.

What’s wrong with it - send pics? Specifically, look at its mouth - open, torn, inverted? How did you QT it?

Carpet nems don’t need to “eat” — just plenty of light and nutrients in the water. Finally, I wouldn’t worry about PO4 - it’s not that high ime.

 

[AngelFly]

I’m no Haddoni expert but I have 4 of them.

What’s wrong with it - send pics? Specifically, look at its mouth - open, torn, inverted? How did you QT it?

Carpet nems don’t need to “eat” — just plenty of light and nutrients in the water. Finally, I wouldn’t worry about PO4 - it’s not that high ime.

 

[AngelFly]

Surprised to here about the eating habbits. Had a carpet a few years ago which ate like a horse. No real QT just acclimated it to water temp. I just increased the PAR with new lights . How can I encourage it to eat?

 

[backbayreef]

Surprised to here about the eating habbits. Had a carpet a few years ago which ate like a horse. No real QT just acclimated it to water temp. I just increased the PAR with new lights . How can I encourage it to eat?

Interesting but I just feed mine market prawns cut into small pieces. Yes, they can eat like pigs and grow very big. My carpets are already 16-18"+ so I don't want them to grow that fast...

Another thing to consider: flow. Don't mess with flow and let them settled. Good luck with yours -- unless they curled up and hiding, I think you should be fine. I didn't have to "encourage" it to eat.

 

[exnisstech]

Mine eats what the clown feeds it.

I had a green one some years back that loved to eat my fish. Shame on me :crying-face:

 

[Purpletang92]

Can you remove the clowns ? Clowns are quite aggressive and tend to nip and constantly rub against their choice of anemone. Your anemone doesn’t seem settled in and may be stressed from the clowns. I wouldn’t feed it.

 

[DaJMasta]

Are the tentacles still sticky? If they are, it's probably still alright, but when I kept one, I had mine slowly decline and start losing stickiness without explanation until I carefully watched when feeding it - the clowns were actually stealing the food I was giving it before it made it into the mouth, so it wasn't being fed.

Distracted them with some extra food, then fed it close to the mouth (minimize the time to capture it), and it recovered within a week or two. As said, they can be sort of aggressive with their host, and larger clowns in a smaller nem could basically smother it to the point of being a problem - same way they can be when hosting in corals.

 

[CrayHawk]

If tentacles are not sticky, it may be sick.

 

[AngelFly]

Regret to say I had to remove what was left of it. It quickly started to decay. Believe it was damaged in trip from Cali to MD. The box was smashed , bag broke with little water left in bag. LiveAquarium did some real poor packaging which I believe sealed its fate.