hitchhiking rock flower anemone

[mollymonticello]

I got a green sea mat from the Caribbean, and there appears to be a hitchhiking rock flower anemone on it, about the size of a nickel. I couldn't get my camera to focus on it, but I got 2 slightly intelligible pics.

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/1646/image005az7.th.jpg (http://img504.imageshack.us/my.php?image=image005az7.jpg) http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/4830/image004th2.th.jpg (http://img504.imageshack.us/my.php?image=image004th2.jpg)

It looks almost exactly like this, even has the thick white bands around the pointed tentacles.
http://www.cbdistributors.com/ebay/fa009.jpg

These things have a bad reputation, can I expect this thing to grow and eat my tiny gobies? Will it start to kill the polyps it's next to? If I need to remove it, how do I do that? I don't want to kill it, I wonder if anyone would want a thing like this?

[Barky]

Where have you seen that they have a bad reputation? I have 1 in both of my tanks but they are colored and if they are the same thing I have had no problems with them.
But I could be wrong, have you done a search on it?
Brian

[mollymonticello]

Well, I've decided to keep it. I got it off the sea mat and put it in a little in-tank refuge (old guppy box). My husband really likes it, and he took these pictures tonight. Turns out it isn't the camera's fault, it was the user :o

My friend from work gave me some Chaeto with some amphipods on it, and I put it in this fuge to keep my Catalina gobies from eating them. Well, I looked in some time later, and saw this--

http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/127915RFAeatingcheato2-med.JPG http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/127915RFAeatingcheato.JPG

This is a nice after picture. He looks happy now. I guess my rock flower anemone is a vegetarian? Maybe they have a bad rep. I took this one :D
http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/127915IMG_2347-med.JPG

[slevesque]

It reminds me of a beaded anemone (sand anemone) with the beads on the tentacules.

[Nano's Rock]

Has it changed color?

[oysterxfast5]

Is that a high light requiring anemone.

[SNAKEMANVET]

I have one for about 8 months in a 12 gallon nano dx.They don't require bright lighting.( sexy shrimp like them) they stay on mine alot.

[oysterxfast5]

would a 130 watt on a 30 keep it with good water?

[SNAKEMANVET]

That should be plenty light. Also it will catch flake food that comes in contact with it,I would still feed it once a week a small piece of silverside.

[oysterxfast5]

Might try and get me one of them, i have seen the before at my lfs and they dont cost to much.

[kiknchikn]

I've always liked those. I might try and get one myself.

[SNAKEMANVET]

They run about $5 to $10,and are very hardy, and differant colors.

[oysterxfast5]

I know its not a host, but could it eat a fish if it got to close.

[SNAKEMANVET]

I seen somewhere a purcula, or a clarki was hosting one, my watchman goby sometimes sat on top of the anemone.

[oysterxfast5]

I have a pair of cinnamon and i doubt that they will host it but i was affraid of my watchman getting ate or my scooter blenny but if your watchman will sit on it i guess it wont matter.

[jurrasicjordan]

I seen somewhere a purcula, or a clarki was hosting one, my watchman goby sometimes sat on top of the anemone.

where did u see that? cus im in a situation where i may have to move my clarkii to a FOWLR with not much light at all (37gal with 65watts PC) but i cant take the clarkiis condy host with it so i was wanting to kno if a rock flower anemone would allow the clarkii to host it...if u remember where u saw that can i have the link?