Its beautiful short green tentacles create a wavy body form that seems to drape or carpet over the marine terrain.
Green carpet anemone placement.
The green carpet anemone nbsp stichodactyla gigantea also known as haddon s anemone is best kept on a soft substrate bottom.
Like many anemones the green carpet makes an excellent host for most types of clownfish forming a symbiotic relationship.
The green carpet anemone or saddle anemone is one of the hardier carpet anemones and can grow up to 31 inches.
Mertensii may adapt to bubble tip anemone entacmaea quadricolor in aquariums.
Giant carpet sea anemone stichodactyla gigantea merten s carpet sea anemone s.
It s a nice lime green color.
However the tank that mine came out of all of the carpets were up in the rocks attached.
The haddon s carpet anemone lives singly in the shallow waters of the indo pacific and red sea.
I just purchased my first carpet anemone the other day.
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The green carpet anemone requires full lighting and adequate water movement.
Found outside of the reef.
This colorful anemone is also referred to as haddon s anemone saddle anemone saddle carpet anemone or saddleback anemone.
It features short and blunt stinging tentacles that should be accounted for during handling and placement away from other corals.
Also known to host the haddon s saddle carpet anemone stichodactyla haddoni continue to 5 of 12 below.
Difficult minimum tank size.
They are capable of stinging and semi aggressive so should be kept away from other anemones and corals.
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Indonesia sri lanka family.
The saddle anemone is an excellent host for clownfish and will flourish in tanks with strong lighting strong water.
Found outside of the reef it resides in soft muddy or sandy substrate and can attain a size of up to 3 feet in diameter.
I have a question though about placement of him.
Mertensii or merten s carpet anemone is the rarest of the carpet anemones and is seldom seen in the ornamental aquatics trade.
The gigantic carpet anemone occurs in blue red green purple and pink color morphs.
This colorful anemone is also referred to as haddon s anemone saddle anemone saddle carpet anemone or saddleback anemone.
The haddon s carpet anemone lives singly in the shallow waters of the indo pacific and red sea.
The haddon s carpet anemone lives singly in the shallow waters of the indo pacific and red sea.
This is one of the larger anemone species.
I ve seen pic s of them in the sand and even at the lfs in their display tank they had a nice red one in the sand bed.
