Saddle carpet anemones 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 anemone and down its column.
Green carpet anemone food.
Shrimp shellfish fish or krill weekly.
Green carpet anemone stichodactyla gigantia.
It may open and extend itself on its saddle to find plankton type foods at night time.
These include anemone shrimps in the periclimenes genus like the five spot anemone shrimp periclimenes brevicarpalis.
This colorful anemone is also referred to as haddon s anemone or saddle carpet.
Carpet anemones should be fed raw minced meaty seafood items shrimp shellfish fish and krill to name a few attained from your local grocery store chopped to about 5 mm in size.
For that reason extreme care should be taken when keeping a haddoni anemone in an aquarium with other anemones.
They are capable of stinging and semi aggressive so should be kept away from other anemones and corals.
Acclimate very slowly over a period of hours for best results.
To supplement what the sun provides carpet anemone should be fed raw minced meaty seafood items.
Like many anemones the green carpet makes an excellent host for most types of clownfish forming a symbiotic relationship.
This is nota gigantea.
The anemone uses photosynthesis and turns light into nutrients.
Shrimp shellfish fish or krill weekly.
A haddoni anemone has been known to eat varied sizes of fish and invertebrates making them one of the more aggressive eaters when compared to other anemones.
Clownfish hosted by the green carpet anemone are the two banded clownfish or clarki.
Use rubber gloves to handle.
Once the green carpet anemone has situated itself within the aquarium it should be fed a diet of chopped fish shrimp and other meaty foods.
The experience of almost every carpet anemone owner is that most of their fish will eventually be eaten.
This species of carpet anemone can eat fish in the display aquarium so use caution when housing a carpet anemone in with fish other than clownfish.
The green carpet anemone stichodactyla gigantea also known as haddon s anemone is best kept on a soft substrate bottom.
To supplement what the sun provides carpet anemone should be fed raw minced meaty seafood items.
This anemone contains very sticky stinging cells.