Anemone Explosion...

[muck]

Let them sit and wait in the driveway until 12 noon..

[Pier Pressure]

I will probably not be home until noon so early-comers will be waiting. I had no idea how much work this would be. I feel like I am running an anemone shop. Oh, well, too many answers beats no answers at all!

[Pier Pressure]

Well, here I am on Sunday at 12:30 and I have not had anyone stop by yet. I went and bought little containers for transport and Rod has already started to remove the baby nems from the rocks and put them into the little containers. I have a print out on the care of rbta's waiting, too, for anyone who cares to read it. Looking forward to meeting some people and think I will have enough for those on the secondary list regardless. Every time we turn over a rock, there seems to be another one!

[Pier Pressure]

I am not sure if anyone cares but the first one just walked out the door. Nice people and this is really fun!

[impreza]

I hope I can get one of these from you eventually!

[Pier Pressure]

It has been drawn to my attention that these may be majano (sp.?) anemones. They kind of look like them, though I cannot find a picture of a majano with the dark red tips that these have. Rather than risking selling a pest to somebody, I have decided to call off the whole deal. I have only sold two so far and would be happy to refund people's money. What a lot of time/work/effort for nothing. I am so embarrassed - I thought with the red tips they were rbta's for sure. Sorry for wasting everyone's time! Has anyone seen majano anemones with red tips before?

[parkinsn]

Originally Posted by Pier Pressure

It has been drawn to my attention that these may be majano (sp.?) anemones. They kind of look like them, though I cannot find a picture of a majano with the dark red tips that these have. Rather than risking selling a pest to somebody, I have decided to call off the whole deal. I have only sold two so far and would be happy to refund people's money. What a lot of time/work/effort for nothing. I am so embarrassed - I thought with the red tips they were rbta's for sure. Sorry for wasting everyone's time! Has anyone seen majano anemones with red tips before?

i have mojano's with red tips, they do look close to a RBTA.

[simba]

pm'ed

[Pier Pressure]

I am just glad I did not distribute them to everyone and then find out they were pests afterwards. We manually removed all we could yesterday and plan to use a syringe to catch any others that show up. Can I dose vinegar or lemon juice right into my tank or do I have to remove the rocks, does anyone know?

I guess it was kind of funny. Here is my significant other carefully removing them from the rocks, making sure not to hurt them, placing them gently into these little plastic containers we picked up just for the occasion. We even had an rbta care sheet printed up for people to read if they wanted. An hour later - we were flushing them left, right and centre!

[Myka]

Hehehe, this is a really cute story.