Anemone Specifics + Positive ID

[carraig]

I purchased this anemone as a Warty Rock Anemone which a google search reveals to be Epicystis crucifer. However, when I look at images of Epicystis crucifer they don't look like the anemone I have.

However the Warty Sea Anemone, Bunodosoma cavernata, looks just like it so I think the sellers were slightly misinformed. With that said, when I do a search for the care of Bunodosoma cavernata I can't find much.

It is fairly active, eats like a pig, and has way more personality than my GBTA. My baby clowns tried to host it and it scared them away so apparently it's not a clown hosting variety. It doesn't seem to have injured the baby clowns as it's been almost a week now and they're no worse off for wear. Unfortunately, the clowns were hosting the GBTA but since they were stung/run off by the Bunodosoma cavernata they won't go near either.

Care info, light info, any info... would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Carraig

 

[garygb]

Definitely not Epicystis crucifer. Sorry I don't know about the care of the Warty anemone.

 

[wicked_NaCl_h2o]

I feed mine every two or three days.. there really isn't any special care for them. They'll live in cold water, warm water, lots of light to almost no light. That makes them very hardy and very easy for a beginner to care for. Mine will eat just about anything but krill. I don't put mine in a tank with small fish. I am afraid it might eat my fish. One reason is, when some thing touches it, it grabs ahold of it quick and won't let go. There has been a few times where I had to leave my feeding tongs in the tank to wait for it to let go. I hope you enjoy yours as much as I enjoy my little warty anemone. I am not sure how these anemones reproduce, I have had this one since july and it is still only one anemone.
here is two pictures of mine



If you are wanting the scientific name for yours. You might find it on this web site.
http://www.actiniaria.com/

 

[carraig]

If you see the pictures on my build thread you'll see mine is the same way. I have pictures of the one time I waved a shrimp in front of it, it grabbed on, and spent the next couple hours trying to swallow a whole large (for human consumption) shrimp with the shell on.

Do these things come in any colors?

 

[wicked_NaCl_h2o]

I have seen some in blue, purple, tan, light green and pink.

 

[carraig]

Where might you buy the colored ones?

 

[wicked_NaCl_h2o]

I wish I knew..I didn't buy this anemone in the picture. My lfs didn't think it was worth anything and just gave it to me.