This anemone contains very sticky stinging cells.
Green carpet anemone food.
Use rubber gloves to handle.
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This colorful anemone is also referred to as haddon s anemone or saddle carpet.
Like many anemones the green carpet makes an excellent host for most types of clownfish forming a symbiotic relationship.
It may open and extend itself on its saddle to find plankton type foods at night time.
Strong lighting is required for this species and it will also benefit from the addition of iodine and trace elements.
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.
For that reason extreme care should be taken when keeping a haddoni anemone in an aquarium with other anemones.
Acclimate very slowly over a period of hours for best results.
Clownfish hosted by the green carpet anemone are the two banded clownfish or clarki.
They are capable of stinging and semi aggressive so should be kept away from other anemones and corals.
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.
To supplement what the sun provides carpet anemone should be fed raw minced meaty seafood items.
Shrimp shellfish fish or krill weekly.
This is nota gigantea.
When healthy this anemone is very sticky to the touch and when they grasp something or someone it is very difficult to convince it to let go without damaging the animal.
These include anemone shrimps in the periclimenes genus like the five spot anemone shrimp periclimenes brevicarpalis.
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.
The experience of almost every carpet anemone owner is that most of their fish will eventually be eaten.
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.
Shrimp shellfish fish or krill weekly.
To supplement what the sun provides carpet anemone should be fed raw minced meaty seafood items.
The green carpet anemone stichodactyla gigantea also known as haddon s anemone is best kept on a soft substrate bottom.