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yellojello

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I need some therapy. I cannot decide if I want to keep my carpet nem or not... has anyone loved their carpet so much, but had to let it go... how did you cope with it? (I know this question sounds rediculous, but its feels so emotional!)

The carpet is beautiful, and has never moved. I placed it in the exact place I even wanted it when I introduced into tank.

My 3 Saddlebacks hosted it right away, and love it so much. They are so cute flip flopping over and under and behind the nem. And at night, they tuck themselves between the flaps like a down comforter. Even though I have much more expensive fish in the tank, these guys are my favorite.

Obviously, everyone knows why I want to send off the nem. Victims: Chromie, small Sailfin Tang, Radiant Wrasse, Girdled Fairy Wrasse, Lyretail Anthia.

RIP :( :ghost: 0:)
 
How about the mini-carpets? I really like them, saw some beauties at Jess's place but have not taken the dive myself. I was not aware that they kill reef fish. Makes me shiver to think about losing a single fish to a nem. Of course, that's what they live on in nature. I guess carpets are particularly nasty in the amount of toxin in their sting..... :~
 
From what I heard, Mini carpets are pretty much as sticky as the carpet anemone themselves. They are small, but when fish swims at them by accident, they will not reject free meal.
 
The one I had was nothing out of the ordinary - green

Loved it, except when it ate fish then I didn't love quite so much. It got lots of ooo's and ahhh's from clients.
 
... Just like all other reefer's dilemmas - decide what you like most about your tank and move in that direction. If the carpet is IT for you, you have some options to minimize the carnage, or you can just accept that there will be losses.

I will say that there are lots of other awesome anemones available to hobbyists that your clowns will also love, and that are much less likely to eat fish.

I had an AMAZING purple pizza anemone once, with a gold rim... quite the showpiece. It only ate a clownfish, a bluejaw trigger, a sailfin tang, and a yellow wrasse (yes, it took me that long to find the skeletons of said fish piled up beside the anemone) before the rock it was attached to was on the living room floor being attacked with a hammer and chisel. I miss it not a bit, but to ME, the fish are one of the most fun parts of reefing.
 
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