Pizza Carpet Anemone Care

Adhesive anemone cryptodendrum adhaesivum this type of anemone is sometimes sold as the pizza anemone because it has rounded ridged edges that resemble a pizza crust.

Pizza carpet anemone care. Pizza anemones should be placed in a tank with strong lighting good water movement and a sandy or gravel bottom with some rocks. In the home aquarium they can also serve as host for amphiprion. Qty out of stock. For proper care a fully established aquarium with perfect water chemistry adequate flow and strong illumination along with weekly or even daily feeding is needed.

Neptune conductivity calibration solution 53ms. The adhesive sea anemone cryptodendrum adhaesivum is easy to identify because of its unique pizza like or carpet appearance its wide oral disc has two types of tentacles and the two forms differ in coloration. In the center it has short skinny sticky tentacles that are often multi branched with fat bulbous tentacles on the outer rim. The haddoni carpet anemone s tentacles look more like colored bumps rather than tentacles.

The adhesive anemone is very unique in appearance but it does have a potent sting it may not do much harm to humans but it can be dangerous for certain tank. The pizza anemone is one of the largest of all the anemones reaching a diameter of over three feet in the wild. Stichodactyla gigantea stichodactyla haddoni and stichodactyla mertensii are called carpet anemones because they have large flattened bodies and their upper surface is covered by numerous relatively short carpet like tentacles. There are three different species of carpet anemones typically seen in the hobby.

The haddoni carpet anemone has very short and tightly packed tentacles. Pizza carpet anemone. Ask a question about this product. Magnavore algae cleaner magnet 4er.

I like to think of it as looking like commercial grade carpeting. Although one of the easiest carpet anemones to care for this animal is still challenging and is best left to the seasoned veteran aquarists. Yes minimum tank size. It is hardier than many of the other anemones and has smaller tentacles than stychodactyla sp.

This anemone serves as a host for many types of clownfish in the wild including. Stichodactyla haddoni reef compatibility. Around 34 to 36 inches appearance.