Thanks. I know this is a bubble anemone. If you could see it, it is quite obvious. It has all of the characteristics of a bubble, I mean all. Colored foot (orangeish tanish color) and little bubbles on the ends of its little tentacles. By the way everyone, it actually has gotten a bit bigger over the last 6 days. I think it had not eaten for a very long time, so now that it is getting food, he is starting to come back to the size he should have been. Last night when I got home, it was bigger than my thumbnail. It ate again last night and then again this morning.
I did have some trouble with a resident (another hitch-hiker) brittle star that is living in the rock that the anemone chose as its home. It was bothering the anemone with one of its legs. When I fed the anemone last night, it went after the food so aggresivly that it was pulling pretty hard on the anemone (the past few days, I would stand and watch guard so that if it tried to go after the anemones food, I would scare it back by gently grabbing the leg with some tweezers) so I jammed a bunch of reef putty in the hole it was poking its leg through. It was right next to the anemone, so that sort of pissed him off for the night, but he was back in full force this morning. Thanks everyone for the feedback! Shane C. > -----Original Message----- > From: DBW [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 11:57 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Score?? > > > >and where I can. Got this stuff for a buck a pound. Anyways, I picked it > up > >and took it home and while I was examining it, I found a very small > bubble > >anemone (a little smaller than my thumbnail). Seems that it may have been > on > >the LR when they took it home, and it never got a chance. So, it is still > >alive, but is very small and beached out. > > Just make sure you are 100% it isn't an Anenomia spp. They are a pest > anemone. Their maximum size is around 15-20mm. Look very much like a > small bubble anemone. Personally I think they are worse than Aiptasia > spp. > > Catch ya, > > DBW | The Caretaker, OZ REEF Marine Park > Melbourne | http://ozreef.org/ > Australia | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a > nail. > > ________________________________________ > > LEAVING THE LIST > ================ > To stop receiving messages you will need to send a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a command to remove you from the > list. The list manager controls who belongs to the list. > > For example: > -------------------------------------------------------------- > From: John Doe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: <not needed> > > UNSUBSCRIBE > -------------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________ LEAVING THE LIST ================ To stop receiving messages you will need to send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a command to remove you from the list. The list manager controls who belongs to the list. For example: -------------------------------------------------------------- From: John Doe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: <not needed> UNSUBSCRIBE --------------------------------------------------------------
