Are Carpet Anemones Hard To Keep

A larger tank is better for anemones as apart from being more stable they can wander about without hopefully bumping into too many coral.

Are carpet anemones hard to keep. However carpet anemones are very challenging to maintain in the home aquarium and few hobbyists are able to attain long term success. By mike maddox. Stichodactyla spp anemones otherwise known as carpet anemones are fascinating creatures and highly sought after by hobbyists. Big beautiful and deadly.

Although difficult to keep they are not as difficult as the gigantean anemone. In my experience haddoni anemones typically like to attach sink their boot into the substrate and attach their boot to the bottom pane of glass. Keep in mind that carpet anemones can really pack a punch and can kill most anything they come into contact with in an aquarium. So it s best to get one situated in the tank before adding any other livestock that would likely be killed if the anemone should start to crawl around.

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. Magnificent anemone is the most difficult to keep as it grows up to 36 inches and requires about 90 gallons. 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. The below is a picture of my blue carpet anemone.

The blue morph of stichodactyla gigantea in the wild. It all depends on what anemone you want carpet anemones are notoriously hard to keep and whether or not you want an anemone only tank or to have it in a display tank with other coral and fish. Handdoni carpet anemones the haddoni anemone srichodactyla haddoni can get as large as gigantea growing to around 2 in diameter.