Rock flower garden

Javierlopez · Mar 2, 2020

Anyone else obsessed with rock flowers.

Peace River · Mar 2, 2020

Yes there are and we'd love to hear more about your experiences with RFAs - especially breeding!!!

Here are a few links that you may find interesting:
RFA breeding help
Ron Reefman's Rock Flower experience

ahiggins · Mar 2, 2020

*slowly raises hand
Lol they’re my favorite coral

wmo168 · Mar 2, 2020

Why they cost so much money each. My lfs has some and they sell $100 each

reef lover · Mar 4, 2020

I am !!
@wmo168 they breed like crazy and each baby is worth 60 to 100 $$... ;Greedy

jd371 · Mar 4, 2020

Has anyone had peppermint shrimp eat RFA's? I lost two of them to peppermint shrimp. They weren't stealing food from them because this was well after I fed the tank and they only did it after lights out, I'd catch them in the act when I turned on the lights and they'd scatter back to they're hiding holes. I have since moved the two shrimp that were doing this to the sump. I have other RFA's that they don't touch so I'm thinking maybe the ones that were eaten were dying although they looked okay.

Brandon103095 · Mar 4, 2020

i love them, want to get my tank to be a garden, got one nem coming friday, hope to pick more up soon!

mrbluewildcats · Mar 4, 2020

I have 6, 3 are very small, and two mini carpet anemones. Love them and I want more! But...trying to control myself.

Peace River · Mar 4, 2020

mrbluewildcats said:
I have 6, 3 are very small, and two mini carpet anemones. Love them and I want more! But...trying to control myself.

Save the self-control for pizza rolls - go for the RFAs!!!

hart24601 · Mar 10, 2020

jd371 said:
Has anyone had peppermint shrimp eat RFA's? I lost two of them to peppermint shrimp. They weren't stealing food from them because this was well after I fed the tank and they only did it after lights out, I'd catch them in the act when I turned on the lights and they'd scatter back to they're hiding holes. I have since moved the two shrimp that were doing this to the sump. I have other RFA's that they don't touch so I'm thinking maybe the ones that were eaten were dying although they looked okay.

Interesting. I have in my waterbox 100.3 around a dozen peppermints and over 100 rock nems without issues.

Peace River · Mar 10, 2020

hart24601 said:
Interesting. I have in my waterbox 100.3 around a dozen peppermints and over 100 rock nems without issues.

Wow! Would like to see pictures!

Are te RFAs breeding? Do the shrimp (or anything else) bother the baby RFAs?

hart24601 · Mar 10, 2020

Peace River said:
Wow! Would like to see pictures!

Are te RFAs breeding? Do the shrimp (or anything else) bother the baby RFAs?

They do breed a plenty! Lots of babies so if they are eating any of them I can't tell. Some not clean glass iPhone shots.

New&no clue · Mar 10, 2020

wmo168 said:
Why they cost so much money each. My lfs has some and they sell $100 each

Cultivated Reef has them for $48.00

Non WYSIWYG Ultra Rock Flower Anemones – Cultivated Reef

2slow95vert · Mar 12, 2020

I plumbed a 20l into my system just for Rock flowers. Have 40ish now and have 35 more coming tmrw!

Peace River · Mar 12, 2020

That's awesome! It looks great! Please let us know if you have any experience with the RFAs breeding in your tank.

AcroNem · Mar 12, 2020

I absolutely love rock flowers, I have a breeding system I set up some time ago still running empty ): just haven't had the time.

Reefer37 · Mar 12, 2020

jd371 said:
Has anyone had peppermint shrimp eat RFA's? I lost two of them to peppermint shrimp. They weren't stealing food from them because this was well after I fed the tank and they only did it after lights out, I'd catch them in the act when I turned on the lights and they'd scatter back to they're hiding holes. I have since moved the two shrimp that were doing this to the sump. I have other RFA's that they don't touch so I'm thinking maybe the ones that were eaten were dying although they looked okay.

Definitely had this happen to my very first RFA. I added him and within 2 minutes my peppermint was all over him. I tried to save the RFA, but lost it in the process of the whole thing. I banished the peppermint to the sump and got rid of him since, won't be doing that again. Idk if it's because he thought it was aiptasia or what.

2slow95vert · Mar 12, 2020

So I have had babies twice and both times it was smaller numbers than I've seen online- MAYBE a dozen that I could find each time. The first time none survived. This time 6 are growing. I've been more careful to feed each one this time.

AcroNem · Mar 12, 2020

2slow95vert said:
So I have had babies twice and both times it was smaller numbers than I've seen online- MAYBE a dozen that I could find each time. The first time none survived. This time 6 are growing. I've been more careful to feed each one this time.

In mine that I've been able to catch offspring from it's been 60+, I believe many of them get lost in the system and die or possibly eaten. Smaller adults will absolutely produce less

2slow95vert · Mar 12, 2020

The only things in that tank have been a sapphire damsel (recently swapped out for a lightening maroon), some snails, and a pom pom crab. Also the flow in that tank is very low so I dont think they were carried out of that tank. Only a few of my rfa's are pretty big, so maybe that's why my numbers were low.