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.
Green carpet anemone food.
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.
Shrimp shellfish fish or krill weekly.
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.
This is nota gigantea.
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The experience of almost every carpet anemone owner is that most of their fish will eventually be eaten.
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.
To supplement what the sun provides carpet anemone should be fed raw minced meaty seafood items.
These include anemone shrimps in the periclimenes genus like the five spot anemone shrimp periclimenes brevicarpalis.
Use rubber gloves to handle.
Green carpet anemone stichodactyla gigantia.
The green carpet anemone 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.
This colorful anemone is also referred to as haddon s anemone or saddle carpet.
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.
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.
The anemone uses photosynthesis and turns light into nutrients.
This anemone contains very sticky stinging cells.
Acclimate very slowly over a period of hours for best results.
Shrimp shellfish fish or krill weekly.
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.