True Carpet Anemone

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True carpet anemone.

Found outside of the reef it resides in soft muddy or sandy substrate. This anemone is also referred to as the carpet anemone gigantic sea anemone or giant carpet anemone. The true carpet anemone has a wavy appearance and lives singly in the shallow waters of the central pacific indo pacific and red sea. The gigantic sea anemone stichodactyla gigantea loves warmer water 84 86f and will move often if not feed.

Toxic green haddoni carpet anemones are also referred to as haddon s anemone saddle anemone saddle carpet anemone or saddleback anemone. Intense lighting is a must 250w hqi 20 000k ab metal halide is what i use now and weekly water changes. Normally found on rocky reefs with soft muddy or sandy substrate it can attain a size of up to three feet in diameter. Haddon s carpet anemone have short blunt tentacles with a very potent sting and can be distinguished from their close relatives stichodactyla gigante.

The haddon s carpet anemone lives singly in the shallow waters of the indo pacific and red sea. Haddoni resides in the sand flats on the outskirts of reefs where it consumes any and all animal matter that comes in contact. I believe clownfish are the key to keeping this anemone because they seem to clean it daily. I feed mine 5 silversides a week.

Haddoni or haddon s carpet anemone is the most commonly imported and readily available of the large carpet anemones and can be identified by its thick central column with large pedal disc very short stubby tentacles and tentacle free oral area and attains a diameter of about 60 cm. Haddon s carpet anemone have short blunt tentacles with a very potent sting and can be distinguished from their close relatives stichodactyla gigantea and stichodactyla mertensii by the lack of any coloration spots or markings on the underside of the.