Rock flower anemone!!

Currdawg12 · Jan 20, 2020

I have had my two new rock nems for a couple weeks now and I love them! So give me care tips! And post your pictures of them! I want a whole 90 gallon with them!

LBReefer · Jan 20, 2020

Are you looking for rock flower or bubble tip? Y

raketemensch · Jan 20, 2020

hope you’ve got some spare time:

Ron Reefman's Rock Flower experience

I've been in love with anemones even before I was started in this hobby about 15 years ago. I really got crazy about them when I started to collect some while snorkeling in the Florida Keys (with the proper license) about 12 years ago. I totally fell in love with the very colorful Rock Flower...

www.reef2reef.com

Currdawg12 · Jan 20, 2020

LBReefer said:
Are you looking for rock flower or bubble tip? Y

both really!

Thub · Jan 20, 2020

Just got my own first RFA. Super interesting creature

Peace River · Jan 20, 2020

raketemensch said:
hope you’ve got some spare time:

Ron Reefman's Rock Flower experience

I've been in love with anemones even before I was started in this hobby about 15 years ago. I really got crazy about them when I started to collect some while snorkeling in the Florida Keys (with the proper license) about 12 years ago. I totally fell in love with the very colorful Rock Flower...

www.reef2reef.com

+1

@Ron Reefman is a great resource for RFAs and, although he has stepped away from his computer for a few days, he is normally a regular on R2R so in addition to his very informative thread listed above you will also be able to ask him specific questions. I hope to do more with RFAs soon myself - good luck!

saltyhog · Jan 20, 2020

RFA's are great additions to reef tanks. Easy to care for, vibrantly colored and mine (I have 8) have never bothered anything.

Daniel@R2R · Jan 21, 2020

I wanna get some RFAs! Maybe it'll happen soon...

Currdawg12 · Jan 21, 2020

saltyhog said:
RFA's are great additions to reef tanks. Easy to care for, vibrantly colored and mine (I have 8) have never bothered anything.

Beautiful!!

Currdawg12 · Jan 21, 2020

saltyhog said:
RFA's are great additions to reef tanks. Easy to care for, vibrantly colored and mine (I have 8) have never bothered anything.

What do you feed and how often?

Terry Mattson · Jan 21, 2020

What is the best place to buy RFAs?

Peace River · Jan 21, 2020

Terry Mattson said:
What is the best place to buy RFAs?

@The Aquatic Arsenal - any suggestions?

The Aquatic Arsenal · Jan 21, 2020

So low flow and low to moderate light. In the ocean, these guys bury themselves in sand with only their tentacles out. They also grow on the side of cliffs. As for food, we feed coral frenzy and frozen brine shrimp.

eggplantparrot · Jan 21, 2020

one of mine is buried in the sand but has shrunk a bit and its red tentacles have lost a bit of color, any idea whats wrong? i have a huge green one in the same tank that seems like its getting bigger by the day.

The Aquatic Arsenal · Jan 21, 2020

eggplantparrot said:
one of mine is buried in the sand but has shrunk a bit and its red tentacles have lost a bit of color, any idea whats wrong? i have a huge green one in the same tank that seems like its getting bigger by the day.

Is it getting enough food? Something you can do for the one buried in the sand is to get a PVC endcap and put that in the sand and then put the RFA in the endcap.

eggplantparrot · Jan 21, 2020

The Aquatic Arsenal said:
Is it getting enough food? Something you can do for the one buried in the sand is to get a PVC endcap and put that in the sand and then put the RFA in the endcap.

more food will help? at one point it didnt really accept food so i stopped feeding it as i read somewhere feeding can stress them out more. its stickier now but im still holding off on food.

The Aquatic Arsenal · Jan 21, 2020

eggplantparrot said:
more food will help? at one point it didnt really accept food so i stopped feeding it as i read somewhere feeding can stress them out more. its stickier now but im still holding off on food.

Just an observation I have made. When they are fed, they are healthy and open up nicely. I had one that would hide from me, so I couldn't feed it. It stayed small while the other grew about 4 times the size I bought it at. I bought both of them at the same time.

eggplantparrot · Jan 21, 2020

The Aquatic Arsenal said:
Just an observation I have made. When they are fed, they are healthy and open up nicely. I had one that would hide from me, so I couldn't feed it. It stayed small while the other grew about 4 times the size I bought it at. I bought both of them at the same time.

i see, i do feed my huge one almost daily. makes sense. i will start feeding the small one again.