Anemone Carpet Red

This anemone is easier to keep than some other type of anemones as long as its needs are met.

Anemone carpet red.

It is roughly 1 and grows to a max size of 3. This colorful anemone is also referred to as haddon s anemone saddle anemone saddle carpet anemone or saddleback anemone. Colors include bright green red lime green blue white and can even be striped. The bali red mini maxi carpet stichodactyla sp.

Clown fish in a red anemone. I like to think of it as looking like commercial grade carpeting. The haddon s carpet anemone lives singly in the shallow waters of the indo pacific and red sea. Their tentacles are very short and so numerous on the surface of the oral disc it gives the anemone a plush carpet appearance hence the name carpet anemone.

This colorful anemone is also referred to as haddon s anemone or saddle carpet. The haddoni carpet anemone s tentacles look more like colored bumps rather than tentacles. 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. This is nota gigantea.

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. Red carpet anemone or giant anemone are one of the largest of the anemones available in the aquarium industry. Pete s aquariums fish is your 1 source for online and in store sales of anemones including giant red carpet anemone the magnificent sea anemone corn anemones and more. The best way to view this anemone is top down under heavy actinic lighting.

Some anemones establish symbiotic relationships the most popular being with clownfish which are protected by a mucus layer that makes them immune to the anemone s sting. Has a bright red body and neon green mouth. Easy to keep inflated purchase size.