[asylumdown]

Alright, I had hoped I'd be lucky with this guy and have one that stayed relatively put, I even went to great lengths to rearrange my rock-work so that it was on it's own little island. No such luck, and I'm looking for advice -

I was in Mexico all week, and according to my roommate, there was no where on the north side of my tank that the anemone didn't go, it was apparently moving every single day and I came home to several dead frags as a result. It's now parked itself right up against one of my favourite corals which has so completely encrusted to the rocks I can't break it off to save it. The best I can hope for it is to frag it. I know these things are the hardest anemone to keep, and I know that a moving anemone equals an unhappy anemone, but I'm having a hard time figuring out if constant moving is a trait of this anemone species in general, or if it's really just unhappy in my tank? Can anyone who's kept one long term before offer some personal experience on how regularly a happy ritteri anemone moves?

The way I see it I have two options:

1. Allow the anemone to keep doing what it's doing and try to move/save what corals I can until it settles down

2. Try and create a spot in the tank it likes better and move it there. The only thing I can think to do is to create a much taller spire against one of my overflows so that the anemone can climb as close to the lights as possible. I'm not sure if it's a lighting issue or a flow issue that's making it want to move, but at the moment the highest it can climb in my tank is about 2/3 the depth of the tank. This would require prying the anemone off the rock it's presently on though, which makes me nervous.

any advice? The anemone itself still seems incredibly healthy. It's accepting food, it's a beautiful dark purple, it's firmly attached to the rocks...