Rock flower show off thread!

[Lisa Cain]

Thank you :)

Do you feed yours?

 

[Lisa Cain]

Thank you :)

I am hanging in there with my small 32 gallon biocube!!

 

[Dsnakes]

Do you feed yours?

I do on occasion, he usually grabs a few bites while I’m feeding the fish/corals as well.

 

[dsfirstsltwater]

Those are all beautiful! I just learned about these guys at a coral show and ended up buying one. My wife actually picked it out and now I need more! Lol don't have a good pic of mine..he's tucked in the sand next to a cave and really hard to get a good shot of him.
Question about them though...my hemits and nassarus snails bother him when I feed him. Does that bother them or do they just not care all that much about the vultures trying to steal his food?

 

[mmw64]

I'm not very good at actinic photos...

Anyone have suggestions for a good supplier?

 

[Hawkeyebeek8]

 

[Myka]

Anyone have suggestions for a good supplier?

I could help you if you were in Canada. ;)

 

[Jet915]

Here are some pics of my rock flower garden. Im literally running out of space for anymore, love them though!

 

[MonsterReef]

corals. Wifes fav

 

[Ryan Marriott]

 

[sand dollar]

Hi! New to R2R...love RFA! One of mine has babies now and one of them has released a couple already. I've had a few spawnings in the past two years but mostly tiny ones that disappear, only two strong babies have survived. So far the few babies already out this time are much larger and already showing some color, instead of the tiny white dots like before. Trying to feed more and hope for more survivers! Still more babies "cooking" in the last picture.

 

[Sipec]

Hi! New to R2R...love RFA! One of mine has babies now and one of them has released a couple already. I've had a few spawnings in the past two years but mostly tiny ones that disappear, only two strong babies have survived. So far the few babies already out this time are much larger and already showing some color, instead of the tiny white dots like before. Trying to feed more and hope for more survivers! Still more babies "cooking" in the last picture.

Welcome to r2r
This thread should be pinned #mdbanister

 

[Ron Reefman]

Some nice photos here and some good info as well. I started a thread to try and do more learning about RFA's rather than look at them. If anybody has any interest in how to care for these or to deal with getting them to breed, or even how to do a better job of photographing them please share it here:
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/ron-reefmans-rock-flower-experience.409436/

In the meantime, here are some of mine. These two are the parents of all but a few of the 30+ I have.
P9290013 by Ron Lindensmith, on Flickr
P9290014 by Ron Lindensmith, on Flickr

This is one I collected myself while snorkeling down in the Florida Keys.
Rons rock flower anemone by Ron Lindensmith, on Flickr

Here are a couple of the kids.
20180622_144429 R1 by Ron Lindensmith, on Flickr
20180622_144303 R1 by Ron Lindensmith, on Flickr

The kids can hide pretty well. there are two in this group of zoas.
20180622_143853_resized by Ron Lindensmith, on Flickr

 

[dsfirstsltwater]

Some nice photos here and some good info as well. I started a thread to try and do more learning about RFA's rather than look at them. If anybody has any interest in how to care for these or to deal with getting them to breed, or even how to do a better job of photographing them please share it here:
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/ron-reefmans-rock-flower-experience.409436/

In the meantime, here are some of mine. These two are the parents of all but a few of the 30+ I have.
P9290013 by Ron Lindensmith, on Flickr
P9290014 by Ron Lindensmith, on Flickr

This is one I collected myself while snorkeling down in the Florida Keys.
Rons rock flower anemone by Ron Lindensmith, on Flickr

Here are a couple of the kids.
20180622_144429 R1 by Ron Lindensmith, on Flickr
20180622_144303 R1 by Ron Lindensmith, on Flickr

The kids can hide pretty well. there are two in this group of zoas.
20180622_143853_resized by Ron Lindensmith, on Flickr

Beautiful animals [emoji846] I actually have one of the same colors you have

 

[Ron Reefman]

Beautiful animals [emoji846] I actually have one of the same colors you have

That's cool. It's funny that even the rainbow coloration is fairly common. I'm just stoked that mine had kids. Maybe this will be a situation that's the opposite of having your own kids that cost an arm and a leg, these 30 kids cost very little and if they make it to being adults they will be worth about $1000 to $1500! LOL!

 

[dsfirstsltwater]

That's cool. It's funny that even the rainbow coloration is fairly common. I'm just stoked that mine had kids. Maybe this will be a situation that's the opposite of having your own kids that cost an arm and a leg, these 30 kids cost very little and if they make it to being adults they will be worth about $1000 to $1500! LOL!

So since there is no way to tell the males from females..you just kinda fingers crossed they mate? I have three and I'm hoping I have some males and females cause I'd be sweet to have baby nems. Do they have to be close or do they just broadcast and whalla? [emoji3]

 

[MonsterReef]

Keep them close and figures crossed lol it's all luck with them

 

[dsfirstsltwater]

Keep them close and figures crossed lol it's all luck with them

Ok good advice [emoji106]

 

[Ron Reefman]

So since there is no way to tell the males from females..you just kinda fingers crossed they mate? I have three and I'm hoping I have some males and females cause I'd be sweet to have baby nems. Do they have to be close or do they just broadcast and whalla? [emoji3]

Keeping them close is an excellent start. Tankstudy said in my thread that he was able to catch a spawn and sucked up the sperm in a turkey baster and then delivered it right to the female. He saw the babies being born later and had 50 to 100. I only saw the babies after they were born and I only got about 15 that I could find from each of two birth events. One was just under a year ago and the other was a couple of months ago.

There is quite a bit of data here:
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/ron-reefmans-rock-flower-experience.409436/

 

[dsfirstsltwater]

Keeping them close is an excellent start. Tankstudy said in my thread that he was able to catch a spawn and sucked up the sperm in a turkey baster and then delivered it right to the female. He saw the babies being born later and had 50 to 100. I only saw the babies after they were born and I only got about 15 that I could find from each of two birth events. One was just under a year ago and the other was a couple of months ago.

There is quite a bit of data here:
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/ron-reefmans-rock-flower-experience.409436/

That's so awesome [emoji3] I'll check out the thread.