Epicystis crucifer - flower anemones

[henryjd]

Hello,
I just got a flower anemone from a friend - he called it a rock anemone. It looks like what I have found online as a Epicystis crucifer. It's about 2 1/2" across, has a bright green mouth, white and brown disc with white "flowers" along the edge. The foot is white/pink. I have not tired to feed it yet. When aclimated, it was put on the bottom between to pieces of rock and has not moved, is open and looks ok.
Any danger of it stinging near by mushroom and zoo corals?

 

[55gSW]

They can sting. They can eat small fish too. When I had mine (when I had a reef tank) I used to feed it small pieces of shrimp about once a week. It did really well. One of the easiest anemones out there.
Good luck with it!

 

[henryjd]

55gSW
Thanks for the reply.
I tried to feed it krill tonight. I put 3 different pieces against it and it would start to fold over to push the shrimp down it's mouth but each time the krill just floated off.

 

[55gSW]

Sometimes during transport, anemones will lose their "stickyness". Mine did the same thing. What I did was to gently, and I do mean gently take the food and push it down into the mouth. You may have to do this for several feedings until the anemone regains its 'sticky". And try using just a regular raw shrimp that you can buy from the grocery store. Cut a small piece off and give it to the anemone. The remaining shrimp you can just freeze for future use.
Good luck!

 

[henryjd]

Ok...going shopping tonight.
Do I actually push it down the mouth?

 

[Duddly01]

No, don't force feed it. I have two in my tank. It will catch mysis or anything that floats by. I occassionally feed them with a turkey baster. Mine are only about 1 1/2" in diameter though. Sound very much like yours. Green disk, white flowery edges.

 

[henryjd]

I put a piece of table shrimp on it tonight and it moved it into it's mouth...so it looks like things are getting beeter.