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06/24/2007, 08:26 PM
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hitchhiking rock flower anemone
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.
  It looks almost exactly like this, even has the thick white bands around the pointed tentacles.  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?
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06/24/2007, 09:08 PM
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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 |
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06/26/2007, 09:05 PM
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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
 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--   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  
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08/18/2007, 10:51 PM
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Has it changed color?
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#6
08/19/2007, 02:50 PM
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Is that a high light requiring anemone.
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08/19/2007, 03:42 PM
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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.
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08/19/2007, 03:59 PM
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would a 130 watt on a 30 keep it with good water?
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#9
08/19/2007, 04:48 PM
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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.
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08/19/2007, 04:49 PM
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Might try and get me one of them, i have seen the before at my lfs and they dont cost to much.
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08/19/2007, 04:55 PM
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I've always liked those. I might try and get one myself.
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#12
08/19/2007, 08:05 PM
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They run about $5 to $10,and are very hardy, and differant colors.
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#13
08/19/2007, 08:16 PM
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I know its not a host, but could it eat a fish if it got to close.
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#14
08/19/2007, 09:59 PM
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I seen somewhere a purcula, or a clarki was hosting one, my watchman goby sometimes sat on top of the anemone.
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08/19/2007, 10:28 PM
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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.
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