Rock flower question

[DangerDave]

I do believe you're onto something. I've had him for almost 6 months. He's only gotten bigger since I moved him into the big tank. I hope all this puffing doesn't mean I'm about to have many, out of one! (I'll send it back to the folks San Diego!!)

If that's the case, I bet you'll like it. Nothing better than finding a bunch of tiny flower nems throughout your system....

 

[SueAubu]

If that's the case, I bet you'll like it. Nothing better than finding a bunch of tiny flower nems throughout your system....

Do I detect a note of sarcasm? (I inherited the 1 big tank because 1 rose tipped BTA (see top of family picture) became 45 and the former owner was over it all.) I like the green guy, but not TOO many of him... And. Certainly not in the pipes!

 

[jkcoral]

I've seen RFAs act like that when fed some foods like reef roids (someone else's posts). But I'm sure the first one is an RFA, just bloated. @jkcoral seen this look before?

Just looks like the nem is chilling, hanging out to me. No gaping mouth, no issues being attached, and no problems eating. Just looks like a healthy nem doing nem things

I see them puff up when I feed powdered foods like reef roids, they puff up like balloons. Other times I’ve seen them do it is if they are about to poop, or if they’ve been moving around and currently trying to stuff their foot into a crevice that isn’t deep enough to settle completely flat. And after all, anemones just sometimes do odd things!

 

[paragrouper]

Borneman anemone perhaps? Phymanthus buitendijki. I've been away from the hobby for about 16 years, but it does have a similar appearance. I kept them for a few years. They multiplied, but never got to plague proportions for me if that's what in fact it is.

That’s what I thought from the tentacles. Here’s mine for reference.

 

[paragrouper]

I have one perched atop a rock (see bottom center) and he will fold himself back on the rock sometimes.

 

[OrionN]

Phymanthus buitendijki, the Bornerman anemone, is a very tough and aggressive anemone. I never seen it lost a fight in battle with any other invertebrates. It reproduce a pinching in our tank (mine at least) and petal laceration. I have never try intentionally but cut it in pieces results in several smaller ones. In my 320, I cannot get rid of them becasue I cannot get to all of them. Even injected it with Kalk does not kill it most of the time.

IMO, RFA likely are several species. Certainly I have several in my tank that looks different from each other morphology wise. What we know of the anemones we call RFA do not reproduce asexually. Cutting them in half always results in two haves of a dead anemone (from what I read). The obvious differences is the shape of the tentacles, but also the arrangement of the tentacles on the oral disc is different.