I have a beautiful crispa, rather large, fully open it's more than 300mm across (about 12 inches?)
Should take some pics of it but the way it's positioned it's hard to get a nice picture. It's got a nice dark creamy to green colour with purple tips that go bright red at the very tip of the tips (if you know what I mean) during the day, guess it's really loving the light.
Anyway when I first got it, I acclimatised it in a bucket, but it loved the bucket so much that it didn't want to let go. Not wanting to risk damaging the foot I cut the bucket up and stuck it in the tank. It really loved that bucket because it wouldn't let go for two weeks! Finally I turned off the light on his half of the tank in hopes that it would "walk towards the light" in a good way.
After a day without light it did start moving but seemed too large to maneuver itself completely out of the bucket. I gave it a go again pulling it out and it completely released its foot.
I placed it on top of the rock I wanted it on, turned the light over it on and it grabbed immediately so I was a happy camper.
When I got home the next day it had climbed to the base of the rock and wedged itself between two rocks. Do crispa prefer having their foot planted in sand or under sand?
Now I have a few questions. I don't think it's being crushed, but it has wedged itself in pretty tightly, half of it is like a folded pancake where it's between the rocks and the other half is spread out across the sand. Should I move the rocks away completely so it's just spread out fully or leave it because it's happy where it is. And it is happy, it eats like a champ, has fat yet long tentacles and has good colouration.
My other question, what are your thoughts on anemone size vs tendency to move. I know bubbletips move the most, but most of the bubbletips that people acquire are pretty small. Would a much larger anemone still have the same tendency to explore? Do you guys think that anemones move more when they are small because 1) they are small, 2) it's less energy consuming due to their size.
My anemone, though healthy, didn't seem to be able to climb out of the bucket and onto the rocks. I think it was simply too large to move itself.
A smaller anemone that doesn't like where it is can move to a more ideal location. But what if it's just too big to move, does it just sulk and slowly die, could this be some of the reason why large healthy anemones when placed in a different tank just fade away for no reason while the new owner thinks "It's not moving, so I'm sure it likes where it is, must be something else"
I'm not saying large anemones don't walk, mine did but it didn't go very far. And this isn't meant to bash unsuccessful anemone keepers. Just shooting for ideas. It may solve some of the "help my anemone's dying and I don't know why" mysteries
Should take some pics of it but the way it's positioned it's hard to get a nice picture. It's got a nice dark creamy to green colour with purple tips that go bright red at the very tip of the tips (if you know what I mean) during the day, guess it's really loving the light.
Anyway when I first got it, I acclimatised it in a bucket, but it loved the bucket so much that it didn't want to let go. Not wanting to risk damaging the foot I cut the bucket up and stuck it in the tank. It really loved that bucket because it wouldn't let go for two weeks! Finally I turned off the light on his half of the tank in hopes that it would "walk towards the light" in a good way.
After a day without light it did start moving but seemed too large to maneuver itself completely out of the bucket. I gave it a go again pulling it out and it completely released its foot.
I placed it on top of the rock I wanted it on, turned the light over it on and it grabbed immediately so I was a happy camper.
When I got home the next day it had climbed to the base of the rock and wedged itself between two rocks. Do crispa prefer having their foot planted in sand or under sand?
Now I have a few questions. I don't think it's being crushed, but it has wedged itself in pretty tightly, half of it is like a folded pancake where it's between the rocks and the other half is spread out across the sand. Should I move the rocks away completely so it's just spread out fully or leave it because it's happy where it is. And it is happy, it eats like a champ, has fat yet long tentacles and has good colouration.
My other question, what are your thoughts on anemone size vs tendency to move. I know bubbletips move the most, but most of the bubbletips that people acquire are pretty small. Would a much larger anemone still have the same tendency to explore? Do you guys think that anemones move more when they are small because 1) they are small, 2) it's less energy consuming due to their size.
My anemone, though healthy, didn't seem to be able to climb out of the bucket and onto the rocks. I think it was simply too large to move itself.
A smaller anemone that doesn't like where it is can move to a more ideal location. But what if it's just too big to move, does it just sulk and slowly die, could this be some of the reason why large healthy anemones when placed in a different tank just fade away for no reason while the new owner thinks "It's not moving, so I'm sure it likes where it is, must be something else"
I'm not saying large anemones don't walk, mine did but it didn't go very far. And this isn't meant to bash unsuccessful anemone keepers. Just shooting for ideas. It may solve some of the "help my anemone's dying and I don't know why" mysteries
