What else will my carpet eat!

[The Mayor]

I walk over to my tank only to see that my carpet anemone is eating a hermit crab.Is there anything that they don't eat.Anyone interested in one.

[Mrs Smith]

Carpets eat just about everything. Including big, expensive fish.

[Casey]

Originally posted by The Mayor
I walk over to my tank only to see that my carpet anemone is eating a hermit crab.Is there anything that they don't eat.Anyone interested in one.

Wow you really feed your carpet good stuff,what else you got in there he can eat?

[ShirleyM]

Whatever walks on the carpet is fair game for dinner...

[The Mayor]

So far the carpet never ate anything expensive.When I was getting into saltwater the lfs said that they are a great percula clown host.......liers.The lfs does not want it back,go figure.

[Joel]

What else will my carpet eat!

Whatever it wants to. I have always wanted to have a couple of ornamental shrimp in my tank but it seems that all my fish love to eat any shrimp that cost me more than $10. Including my tangs.

[Jimmer]

Originally posted by The Mayor
So far the carpet never ate anything expensive.When I was getting into saltwater the lfs said that they are a great percula clown host.......liers.The lfs does not want it back,go figure.

Sigh...such is the way with the lFS in this area... Which one did you get it from?

[The Mayor]

I got it from pet world on Hwy100.One of my very first buys for the tank.And who says you can't keep a anemone alive.The only things I ever lose are what what swims or crawls on the carpet.

[tdwyatt]

Heh!!!

The norm for Carpets once they get established and you have good lighting and current.

Be very careful in the tank when working with bare arms. As it gets healther and becomes well-established, the potency of its nematocysts will increase proportionately. If you keep it long enough, you will eventually find this out if you work bare armed around it in the tank (I think they have some type of animal magnetism... )

Great for a specie tank, or a fish disposal, but not much else as they will revent any other coral growth from establishing itself in a field of fire around the capitulum.

Good Luck...

[squid]

Lost a beautiful large powder blue tang..had him for over a year, put a carpet in the tank...powder blue got up for something one night, found him head first in the carpet. He was so pretty. Carpet is now history