Rock flower anemones?

[PirateLove]

What are your thoughts? Do you have one? I just received one from a friend and I have never had one before and have never seen any for sale at my lfs.

Thanks. :wavehand:

[humphreyhh]

They are very hardy. They don’t host clownfish but might host anemone shrimps. I saw some in very dim corners of lfs tanks. Some of them are be very beautiful too.


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[homer1475]

I have a few. The 2 larger ones(about the size of a baseball) like alot of light. The 2 smaller(size of a quarter) like to be in the shade. Mine have not moved in 2 years once they settled in.

[der_wille_zur_macht]

I love them. Great splash of color right at the rock/sand boundary, hardy, don't need food but will benefit from it, and don't spread by division so they won't slowly take over like other similar creatures (unless you end up with a spawning male and female pair). I've never had one bother livestock. They can move, but rarely if ever do.

They are my favorite of the various carpet-like anemones/larger mushrooms. To me, everything else in this segment has a bad flaw (bigger carpets eat fish, mushrooms spread too quick and some eat livestock, etc).

[heathlindner25]

https://i.imgur.com/VBz6iOXl.jpg
Very beautiful and very hard to kill

[d2mini]

They're pretty popular around here.
They tend not to move once they find a spot they like. Usually they stay pretty much where you put them.

So many pretty colors to choose from but I'm pretty fond of my white one. :)

https://photos.smugmug.com/OLD-STUFF/Aquariums/Elos-Reef/n-xp7TPB/i-vDR7nK2/0/8b95c3f4/O/i-vDR7nK2.jpg

[heathlindner25]

Very nice Dennis.

[JohnnyK731]

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171130/9eb73a36aba94ee1d7cc3851ad893243.jpgjust got this guy yesterday stoked on the colors


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[Pellikan]

+1 on pretty much all the above. I've had mine for about a year. Started at quarter size and is now baseball size across, maybe a little more. It has maintained the same coloring as when I got it (but nothing compared to that beautiful white one). It grabs chunks of frozen food and does just fine on that diet. No need to go to the butcher and buy one jumbo shrimp to feed it. Also, it settled where I first put it and has never moved.

Good luck with yours. I bet you like it.

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[homer1475]

I have one thats identical to D2mini's.

https://i.imgur.com/J1RFZuKh.jpg

[oldhead]

Well this just added a new inhabitant to my list for when my 110 is stable after the upgrade.

[Ron Reefman]

I've found that the less colorful rock flowers tend to come from shallow water (2' to 20') and they do photosynthesis very well and require very little if any spot feeding. The more colorful rock flowers tend to come from deeper water (20' to 60') and they don't do photosynthesis as well as the shallow version. Left to feed on their own, they don't do as well as the shallow version. I found that by spot feeding my colorful rock flowers they hold their size or even grow and may even reproduce. I have 2 that recently produced 10 babies. They do not split like RBTA's. As others have said, once they find a home, they tend to stay put. I also think they prefer to attach to a rock at the level where the sand hits. Mine have all been far less inclined to attach and stay up on the rocks away from the sand.

[cincyjim]

I have two and I spot feed them twice a week. I did have one move to the side of the tank during the summer. I think it was because it liked the morning sun on that side of the tank. Beautiful animals for sure!

[Kevin Guthrie]

I've had quite a few for 15 years in my anemone exile tank. Plus one on the comments above, plus they don't remove fish from your tank a Haddon's does. All have reproduced *except* for the orange guy like @johnnyk731's. Look for fluorescent green too; I started with two different ones and have probably a dozen now.

If you ever need to move one (like he stuck to the front glass) put a piece of PVC pipe over him so he has to move to get light.

[d2mini]

plus they don't remove fish from your tank a Haddon's does.

Tell that to my wrasse. lol

Although, this was the first and only time I've ever seen this and I've had a bunch of these guys in various tanks over the years. I'm assuming this fish was sick, stupid, drunk, or just extremely unlucky. ;)

https://photos.smugmug.com/OLD-STUFF/Aquariums/200g-Reef-Aquarium-PART-2/n-MDZQf/i-HT5KPNg/0/829a8ef6/O/i-HT5KPNg.jpg

[d2mini]

I have one thats identical to D2mini's.

https://i.imgur.com/J1RFZuKh.jpg

Brother from a different mother! :lol2:

[jd371]

Here's mine. It was a little bit larger than a quarter when I bought it and now the size of a baseball. It started out in back of the rock it's on and after a couple of months moved through the center of the rock through a crevice to the front where it is now and has stayed put. I have never spot fed it, it gets what it needs from the broadcast feeding.

https://i.imgur.com/ErWv6IJl.jpg

[redlobstor]

Pretty much + 1 to what everybody has said. They are beautiful creatures that have reproduced as well. I have 7 right now. I'm trying to start a rock flower garden on the left side of my tank. I've only had one that has moved around the others pretty much stay put. The one that did move was because it was getting too much flow I think. I do spot feed mine but with no regularity and they do appreciate being fed. When I was feeding them pretty regularly that is when they started to reproduce. The picture shows all 7 of them together the neon green one on the bottom of the picture is one that moved to the back of the tank on the same side and that white one that's on the top left just recently started developing an orange ring around the outside that is visible in the picture.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171130/0c2feb6abe3830b4115be592f2af25ee.jpg

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[oldhead]

They're pretty popular around here.
They tend not to move once they find a spot they like. Usually they stay pretty much where you put them.

So many pretty colors to choose from but I'm pretty fond of my white one. :)

https://photos.smugmug.com/OLD-STUFF/Aquariums/Elos-Reef/n-xp7TPB/i-vDR7nK2/0/8b95c3f4/O/i-vDR7nK2.jpg

I'm guessing that is you over at the wrangler form with this name?

[d2mini]

I'm guessing that is you over at the wrangler form with this name?

Yep! Why complicate things with different names. :wavehand: :lol2:

[cbrewer9]

Isn't this a flower I was told it washttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171201/d5a9846d9a43fc9f830e2843b43f9851.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171201/a1b824b997bb65b6c4fcafacfccb197b.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171201/8e71a7a8e68e94f5d96ae0029f817ca8.jpg

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[JohnnyK731]

Isn't this a flower I was told it washttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171201/d5a9846d9a43fc9f830e2843b43f9851.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171201/a1b824b997bb65b6c4fcafacfccb197b.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171201/8e71a7a8e68e94f5d96ae0029f817ca8.jpg

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Def not a flower some one will tell
You the name i forget it at the moment




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[Tripod1404]

Isn't this a flower I was told it washttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171201/d5a9846d9a43fc9f830e2843b43f9851.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171201/a1b824b997bb65b6c4fcafacfccb197b.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171201/8e71a7a8e68e94f5d96ae0029f817ca8.jpg

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That anemone is severely bleached.

[JohnnyK731]

That anemone is severely bleached.



There’s a debate on here in a separate thread about white or bleached anemones. I do know the long tentacle carpet is white with purple tips when unhappy it would look similar to this.


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[redlobstor]

Isn't this a flower I was told it washttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171201/d5a9846d9a43fc9f830e2843b43f9851.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171201/a1b824b997bb65b6c4fcafacfccb197b.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171201/8e71a7a8e68e94f5d96ae0029f817ca8.jpg

Sent from my LG-K540 using TapatalkCan you take a better picture. Does not look like a rock flower anemone as a rfa only has tentacles on the outside. Looks like a Long Tentacle Anemone to me and is definitely bleached. If it were me I would feed it heavily until it regains its colors.

Jason

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[redlobstor]

Or possibly a bubble tip

Jason

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