Rock flower anemone question?

[Ksull72487]

Picked this guy up today it was the last one. So I know he’s a survivor.For my Fluval 13.5. I have never had an anemone before and couldn’t imagine anything bigger than a rock flower. He’s acclimating right now. Once he’s done do I just pick him up and stick his foot in a rock. I’m sure the little guy will move. What would be the best bet.

 

[WIReefer]

You should be all good! Rock flowers are pretty easy to keep. I would stick in rock where you want and leave it alone. In my experience they don’t move much.

 

[Pistondog]

Put him where you want him.
If he's happy with medium light and lowish flow he'll stay there.
Rock nems move less than btas.

 

[Ksull72487]

Next question do I feed. I know some guys don’t but I’m thinking he’s small so it might be worth doing. Yeah I wanted something that didn’t move in this tank but I have Frogspawn, bubble coral and elegance coral. Just got toad stool today as well. I figured since this tank started agressive let’s get the rock flower and figure out the peaceful stuff later lol. Toad stool is the first peaceful coral. I like to place aggressive stuff first since I can see what it does. How far the tentacles etc go.

 

[Pistondog]

Put him where you want him.
If he's happy with medium light and lowish flow he'll stay there.
Rock nems move less than btas.

I don't feed mine specifically.

 

[Sierra_Bravo]

Next question do I feed. I know some guys don’t but I’m thinking he’s small so it might be worth doing. Yeah I wanted something that didn’t move in this tank but I have Frogspawn, bubble coral and elegance coral. Just got toad stool today as well. I figured since this tank started agressive let’s get the rock flower and figure out the peaceful stuff later lol. Toad stool is the first peaceful coral. I like to place aggressive stuff first since I can see what it does. How far the tentacles etc go.

I've never target fed any of mine and they've easily tripled in size.

 

[Ksull72487]

He’s in!!!!!! That sucker attached in 10 minutes. I left flow off for 30. That whole rock I may do 1 more I could have a little garden. And I’m Defintely upgrading the Fluval light. This thing is crapola for exposing coral, new color. Yeah it’ll work!!! But the color is crap.

 

[Pistondog]

happy little nem.

 

[cyclone21]

Nice. I've fed mine krill but don't need to. They have been fine for long periods without target feeding. I just like to give them something once in awhile

 

[Billdogg]

Nice! It will move to wherever it wants to. There is absolutely nothing you can do about it and in fact you can cause them harm by trying to get them to go where they don't want to.

As for feeding - I target feed mine maybe once a week with a little bit of something meaty (Rod's Original) I find that it grows a bit faster that way and it has certainly improved it's color.

Should there ever be another swap meet around here I'll probably pick up a couple more.