Rock flower

K&AReeFers! · Jan 29, 2017

Is it a problem that my rock flower anemone has moved all the way to the top of the tank? It was on the sand then slowly been moving up spent 6 months about the third of the way. Thanks for the help

Roboson · Jan 30, 2017

It must not like its conditions, whether is be light or flow, it's looking for more favorable conditions.

K&AReeFers! · Jan 30, 2017

Roboson said:
It must not like its conditions, whether is be light or flow, it's looking for more favorable conditions.

Is there any thing I should do or just let it do it's thing?

tankstudy · Jan 30, 2017

Does it respond to food? Also could you take a picture of the front disk?

ahiggins · Jan 30, 2017

Mine have never done that.
I think it's too much flow. I've seen the lfs ones do it.
They don't like a lot of flow.
Also, if you situate it on the rock rather than sand, it has to be some pretty bad situations for it to move.

K&AReeFers! · Jan 30, 2017

tankstudy said:
Does it respond to food? Also could you take a picture of the front disk?

It seems to eat fine I target feed it still. I did move the return jets a bit because of to much flow on my hammers. I will try to get a pic when the lights are on but the mouth is not open at all and it responds when I move the lights to feed the fish.

ahiggins · Jan 31, 2017

Their mouths will never be "open" per se.
Youll just be able to see little lips

K&AReeFers! · Jan 31, 2017

ahiggins said:
Their mouths will never be "open" per se.
Youll just be able to see little lips

I moved him to the rock work in lower flow here is a pic.

tankstudy · Jan 31, 2017

What type of light fixture you using and how high is it above the water surface? Your RFA looks a little translucent.

ahiggins · Jan 31, 2017

He does look a little pale but no one has ever made the correlation to "if they had to choose too much flow or too much light, where would they go?" so he may have gotten overexposed to light to try to get out of the strong current.
Other than a little pale, he looks pretty good