Identifying anemone

[aliciatprince]

In a separate post I asked a question about how many rock anemones is too many for my small tank. As yet no one has answered that question because they all piled on about my identification as a rock anemone. The majority referred to it as a curly q anemone- I have looked at about 100 pictures of a curly q and I think mine is definitely not a curly q. I started off with one small anemone on a small piece of live rock I purchased over the last year and a half I now have seven. They bud asexually - all the buds have originated from the same original anemone. My tank is a 25 gallon cube I also have about another 15 gallons in a sump. I have a good cleanup crew, a small bubble tip, and a black clown


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[Postal]

I didn't see your other thread, but I think that is way more likely to be a Phymanthus species from the Indo-Pacific region rather than the related rock flower anemone (Phymanthus crucifer) from the Caribbean.

 

[aliciatprince]

Thanks my other thread with and the new to the hobby forum asking if there was such a thing as too many. Do you have a common name for this species


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[Postal]

Sorry, I don't have a common name unless it happens to be the same species as "Borneman's anemone".

"Too many" is only really determined by the total bio-load in your tank, and in the case of anemones, the risk they might pose to other livestock.

 

[OrionN]

It is a Phymanthus buitendijki. It really does not have a common name other than "Borneman's anemone". Very hardy and pack an extemly powerful punch. Never see it loose to anything. I tried to inject it with Kalk and did not kill it, cause it to multiply.
http://www.sea-anemones.com/eng/phymanthus/phymanthus-buitendijki/index.html

 

[aliciatprince]

It is a Phymanthus buitendijki. It really does not have a common name other than "Borneman's anemone". Very hardy and pack an extemly powerful punch. Never see it loose to anything. I tried to inject it with Kalk and did not kill it, cause it to multiply.
http://www.sea-anemones.com/eng/phymanthus/phymanthus-buitendijki/index.html

You consider them a pest? If so they are taking over my tank.


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[OrionN]

I got 1 in 1999. It is now all over my tank. It is OK but if you start to have 5 or more, I would try to remove them and sell them or toss the extra one. One way to remove them is put the rock with the anemone(s) in the sump, dark, against the wall. It(they) will climb up the wall looking or more light. Remove from wall is easy. Also if you shade them with a small rock, they will attach to the upper rock and you can take them out this way.
I did not think of them as pest until about 15 years into keeping them. Mine have green center, really beautiful anemone.

 

[aliciatprince]

My one has turned into 7 in about 1 1/2 years [emoji87]


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[Banff]

I had 3 or 4 of them (split from an original clone) in my 46 gallon that was up and running for 12 years crash-free. I have had them living beside and even in contact with BTAs (entacmaea quadricolor), epicystis crucifer, lots of corals and never seen one that appeared to be causing problems for any other organisms. I've had clowns live in one and sent pictures to Eric Borneman to confirm that my "Borneman's" were indeed phymanthus buitendijki (as correctly identified earlier in this thread by anenome keepers far more experienced than I). They are one of my favourite anemones and I have always had one or more in all of my tanks for as long as I can remember. I have not ever been over-run with them and when I've had an extra here and there, I have given them away to local reefers. There's one in my doctor's office waiting room tank that is a clone of mine and I see it really regularly. It's never been a problem for him and he's running a 30 gallon. There's one in my tank right now and it's with a bunch of BTAs. I have always handled them with bare hands, they are quite sticky but have never injured me or caused a reaction. I have not noticed much of a bio load at all, even with multiples in small tanks.

I think that Minh (OrionN) is one of the most knowledgable anemone-keepers I've ever encountered, but his experience with these has obviously been very different than mine. I would are our communal information and sort of "crowd-source average" it. I'm the only person I know that has deliberately sought them out and chosen to keep them long term as a centerpiece, but the vast majority of mine are clones of an original and should be taken as one genetic sample as opposed to representative of the entire population of organisms.

I'm sorry that doesn't answer many of your questions, but I'm happy to explore it further.