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cowbuoy
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First let me preface by saying I know almost nothing about anemones.
When I purchased my live rock, there was a little "pink ballon" on one of the rocks. It seemed like this might be a neat creature so I kept my eye on it.
It moved around for a couple of days and finally settled in one place. My tank was cycling the whole time (although I did have a very fast cycle - about 3-4 days max)
I continued to watch him. He opens up in the morning with the lights - similar to a flower - and closes up and recedes into the rock a little at night.
Looking through a book the other day it started to dawn on me that this might be an anemone. the book called it a Sand Anemone. The definitive feature is the "rings" on the tenacles. It is rather pink /flesh colored with rows of white spots as well.
I am rather in doubt that this is indeed an anemone since I have heard that they are so hard to keep -- let alone traveled aboard a piece of live rock and subjected to all that must entail - also that this supposed Sand Anemone is living on a rock. But what else could it be??????
I began to feed it the other day by shooting frozen brine his (her?) way. He closes up around the brine shrimp he catches while closing up. A few minutes later he opens up again.
The vantage point that he has chosen allows me to see him in cross-section (sideways) as well since there is a second hole where he lives near the outside wall of my tank. I can see the food being digested but I have no idea how he might "poop".
Last night I noticed a brown ball on top of him - about the size of a rabbit turd. (This "anemone" is only about the size of a quarter or so spread out and his top to bottom measurement is about ohhhh 2 inches.
i thought he was trying to expel his "poop" but later I could not find the "poop" on the sand bed and thought maybe it was his reguratated dinner -- or a snail got too close (but no empty snail shell either)
anyway - what do you guys think???? I will also attach two images off the web (my camera will not focus close enough to be of use) that seem similar - although most of the pics I looked at for sand anemones did not look too similar these two are pretty darn close.
When I purchased my live rock, there was a little "pink ballon" on one of the rocks. It seemed like this might be a neat creature so I kept my eye on it.
It moved around for a couple of days and finally settled in one place. My tank was cycling the whole time (although I did have a very fast cycle - about 3-4 days max)
I continued to watch him. He opens up in the morning with the lights - similar to a flower - and closes up and recedes into the rock a little at night.
Looking through a book the other day it started to dawn on me that this might be an anemone. the book called it a Sand Anemone. The definitive feature is the "rings" on the tenacles. It is rather pink /flesh colored with rows of white spots as well.
I am rather in doubt that this is indeed an anemone since I have heard that they are so hard to keep -- let alone traveled aboard a piece of live rock and subjected to all that must entail - also that this supposed Sand Anemone is living on a rock. But what else could it be??????
I began to feed it the other day by shooting frozen brine his (her?) way. He closes up around the brine shrimp he catches while closing up. A few minutes later he opens up again.
The vantage point that he has chosen allows me to see him in cross-section (sideways) as well since there is a second hole where he lives near the outside wall of my tank. I can see the food being digested but I have no idea how he might "poop".
Last night I noticed a brown ball on top of him - about the size of a rabbit turd. (This "anemone" is only about the size of a quarter or so spread out and his top to bottom measurement is about ohhhh 2 inches.
i thought he was trying to expel his "poop" but later I could not find the "poop" on the sand bed and thought maybe it was his reguratated dinner -- or a snail got too close (but no empty snail shell either)
anyway - what do you guys think???? I will also attach two images off the web (my camera will not focus close enough to be of use) that seem similar - although most of the pics I looked at for sand anemones did not look too similar these two are pretty darn close.
