They've Got A Mind of Their Own: Do you own an Anemone?

[hunterallen40]

Only have a couple nems, and they are rock flowers. We actually just got one in yesterday!

 

[bakbay]

I have 3 ginormous (16”+) and 1 baby (9”) Haddonis, 5 Colorados, and 2 Chicagos — all happily sharing space in the new lagoon tank. Haddonis move around a lot, with or without sand! The CSBs and CHSBs stay put in one area.

 

[mdpitts]

Mine, I made a rock with a magnet so it doesn't want to wander all over my sps.

I love this idea!! I used a glass cup that you put plants in a freshwater tank that had a suction cup but this takes the cake. Curious to know more about this.

 

[cillam]

I just started a black out with a UV sterlizer due to dino's.
I took a sneak peak of the tank to see how everything is going and noticed that the rainbow bubble tip anemone i had yesterday is now two rainbow bubble tip anemone's.

I have decided to run just blue and UV lights on a lower intensity instead of a complete black out like i had for the last 24 hours.

 

[rhitee93]

I love anemones, and they are why I did my first SW tank back in the early 2000's. I broke that tank down a couple of years later and just got back into the hobby.

Wanted another nem, and put this RFA in. It's been a bit of a nuisance . There probably won't be any more in this tank.

Maybe some day I'll build a setup specifically for them.

 

[bakbay]

I have many anemones but don't want any. They sometimes come in as tiny juviniles and multiply by splitting and eventually can take over. (No, I am not talking about mojano's)
I never feed them or they get huge

Opposite for me -- I want mine to split and split faster. Would be cool to fill the whole tank with bright-colored Colorado/Chicago Sunburst anemones! I've fragged mine a few times but recently got a natural split one. As for the Haddonis - I wish that they can be propagated.

I would love to get a gigantea one of these days; however, it's been a challenge trying to source one locally or online. I think all the pictures I've seen online were Photochopped -- these unicorns don't exist! lol

 

[Dburr1014]

I love this idea!! I used a glass cup that you put plants in a freshwater tank that had a suction cup but this takes the cake. Curious to know more about this.

Nothing fancy.
I had waterside magnet from a dead pump and liquid epoxy'd it to a rock. Just make sure the mag can hold the rock thru the glass.

 

[Philip Chin]

 

[Philip Chin]

Must must have over 40 of them. I love my anemone tank!

 

[SueAubu]

I like my rock flowers

Do you have a name for this guy (besides "Bob" or "Larry"). I rescued a tank and one exactly identical to this appeared when I rehydrated some rock that had dried in transport!! Happy birthday to me!!

 

[SueAubu]

The day I got him:

Tonight:

I love watching him eat, curling up his little fingers, like a kid and stuffing them in his mouth.

Downstairs in the 220, I have 6 rose tipped BTA and a Hawaiian Sunset BTA... Who spends more time.talking around than bubble tipping. (He has never looked like this... Just all long and waving to the other corals as he walks all over and around them.

But I REALLY love my new rock flower garden!

 

[Reefer Matt]

No nems for me. I tried when I first got into reefing, but didn’t have luck. Now I just don’t have room for something that wanders around and stings coral. Lol.

 

[BriansBrain]

Does aiptasia count?

 

[SueAubu]

Does aiptasia count?

Well, that makes a complete set for me! Aiptasia in the tank with no nems!

 

[exnisstech]

Do you have a name for this guy (besides "Bob" or "Larry"). I rescued a tank and one exactly identical to this appeared when I rehydrated some rock that had dried in transport!! Happy birthday to me!!

That is cool. I love surprises. I do not have a name. I think it is from a spawn of the two shown below it in my earlier post. It appeared on a rock that I placed in my stock tank when I broke down my 180g. I saw them spawn once in the 180 and saw babies but thought they didn't make it.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

My favorite one is in my PICO tank. Soon to be moved out as its growing to quick.

That anemone is doing great in there!

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Only have a couple nems, and they are rock flowers. We actually just got one in yesterday!

Very nice looking picture!

 

[OrionN]

I love anemones, and they are why I did my first SW tank back in the early 2000's. I broke that tank down a couple of years later and just got back into the hobby.

Wanted another nem, and put this RFA in. It's been a bit of a nuisance . There probably won't be any more in this tank.

Maybe some day I'll build a setup specifically for them.

If you put him in a cap of some sort, like PVC end cap. Choose a cap that is a little larger than its foot but fully expanded anemone would easy cover it. It will stay in it, and you can essentially move it anywhere and it will stay if given reasonable light and current. You can plan the cap in the sand and form a colorful, "instant anemone garden". (The Rock Flower Anemones only, not Haddoni pictured below)

 

[OrionN]

 

[mdpitts]

Wow! That is a lot of eye candy!! For the not so tool handy - me - would you mind showing what the PVC end cap is and how tall it is? I would love to try this.