A couple good pics of my TBsaltwater rock flower nem
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Google images inclines me to this one. I'm a bit freaked right now cause it says 10"...that's huge in my book.
It also says it's a natural host to a number of clowns. Not oscii of course.
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So I guess not a rock flower at all then.
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Looks like a flower anemone.
Yep! Sure is pretty!
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Lord No. It's grown out quite a bit. Here's some progress pics:
Day 1:
About a week later I uprooted him and moved him to the sandy section on the right side of the tank:
About 14 days after I got him. You have to zoom in to the right side. It's pretty bleached:
About a month later, I was starting to get some algae and his bleaching was starting to repair:
Fast forward to last month right before I had to black the tank out to fight that hair algae:
During the blackout he decided to move to the other side of the rock island, then a couple weeks later decided to move again this time a little left of where he was before:
This morning:
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I do a little bit of everything.
I feed him about once or twice a week, sometimes more sometimes less.
I have cubes of mysis that I thaw with some tank water and suck it up with a turkey Baster and blast onto his tentacle.
I have a hodgepodge of blender goodies that I feed him the same way as the mysis. Scallops, cheap fish fillets, shrimp, squid, brine, krill, mysis all put in the blender and chopped.
Sometimes I'll feed him good size chunks of frozen prawns (thawed obviously). Or thaw a bit of whole krill.
He also catches food that I feed to the other inhabitants.
Mixing it up like this keeps me interested. If there's any one thing I hate it's a routine.
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I used the ice cube trick. Just get an ice cube and hold it next to (but don't touch) the foot. The cold temp will make him pick up and start moving. It took me about 15min and about 5 cubes before I was able to pry him off. Just watch for the foot to start slowly moving away.
Generally they prefer to be in the sand. They like to have their foot attached to a rock and sandwiched between the rock and the sand. So if you have a rock on the bottom, you can dig a small sand tunnel under it and place him in it, then he will attach to the rock and eventually stretch out from under it.
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I snapped a few more today with a better camera. I'd like to build a lens and use my wife's dslr to get a good shot of him.
Here's my favorite from today. You can really see where he's starting to get some color. Now don't mind some of the reds that you see, I believe those may actually be from the light and not from his pigment. He is starting to get some green around the mouth and some purple around the edges. Pretty exciting!
Here's a closer one where you can really see the green around the mouth:
Here's my favorite from today. You can really see where he's starting to get some color. Now don't mind some of the reds that you see, I believe those may actually be from the light and not from his pigment. He is starting to get some green around the mouth and some purple around the edges. Pretty exciting!
Here's a closer one where you can really see the green around the mouth:
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