Blue Giant Carpet Anemone

It can be kept in an aquarium but is a very challenging species to keep alive and healthy for more than 3 5 years.

Blue giant carpet anemone.

Intense lighting is a must 250w hqi 20 000k ab metal halide is what i use now and weekly water changes. This anemone will host most clownfish and should be placed in a large well lit aquarium that is well established and has stable water quality. It also has light spots on the underside of the oral disc and longer pointed tentacles while haddon s anemone has shorter beaded tentacles. Giant carpet anemones are one of the largest of the anemones available in the industry.

I believe clownfish are the key to keeping this anemone because they seem to clean it daily. The gigantic sea anemone stichodactyla gigantea loves warmer water 84 86f and will move often if not feed. The gigantean carpet anemone typically will get over 2 feet in diameter and will frequently get to around 3 feet when kept in ideal conditions. Some comments by michael.

The giant carpet anemone is a large anemone that lives on coral reefs and seagrass beds in the tropical indo pacific. I feed mine 5 silversides a week. In the wild they can get to well over 3 feet. Stichodactyla gigantea commonly known as the giant carpet anemone is a species of sea anemone that lives in the indo pacific area.

The giant carpet anemone is very similar to haddon s carpet anemone but it grows much larger up to two and a half feet in diameter.