Hitchhiking flower anemone...

[fishymissy]

Well, I'm one of those people who always says that anemones shouldn't be kept in the home aquarium, and then this happens.
I had bought some LR for the 90g not too long ago. Yesterday I noticed a small anemone. After looking it up on the web, I believe it is a flower anemone. This one is small, about the size of a dime. I managed to take it off the rock and placed it in the 20g (which has better lighting). BTW, that was the yuckiest thing I have ever done...... <img src="graemlins//dead.gif" border="0" alt="[dead]" /> Now I need to know what to do with this. I did a search on the web, and aside from photos, there seems to be very little information on them. If anyone has one of these, or knows of a good site, I would appreciate it!! Thanks!
BTW, I feel really bad about having this in my tank, but I will do the best I can to provide a proper tank for it.

 

[stacy]

I had the same thing happen mself. I ordered some live rock and after a couple of days I found 5 anemones. I looked at the pictures they have here on there online store and believe mine to be a rock anemone. They say they are filter feeders, nut mine have eaten very tiny cutp pieces of shrimp. What does it look like? My is brown with what appears to be a blue/green stripe around the tentacles.

 

[kelly]

I have had one for quite some time now, and I do not do anything special with it. I rarely feed it, but when I feed my fish, it will catch some brine shrimp. It is growing and doing well. It does eat silverside pieces when I do feed it.

 

[stacy]

Kelly how big is your anemone? Just curious if I should keep all the ones in my tank or take them to the LFS.

 

[fishymissy]

The base, or foot is pink. The disc is not really round, more convoluted. The disc itself is white, has a rather beaded look to it, and the mouth is quite large. The outer edge of the disc is rimmed by many tentacles that are cone shaped, like this > and they are short and brown. There are other tentacles that are white, but these are only scattered here and there in groups of two to three. The anemone has moved from where I placed it, to a spot where the base or foot is wedged in between two rocks.
I am wondering if I should go ahead and feed it, or wait a few days for it to settle before I try and do that.
Awhile back on another piece of rock, I had a bunch of majano's pop up, and I didn't feel nearly as bad about them as I do about this creature