Different Types Of Carpet Anemones

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 inhabitants.

Different types of carpet anemones.

Use caution when introducing anemones into a reef aquarium however as some species are quite mobile and may sting and damage live corals. Found outside of the reef it resides in soft muddy or sandy substrate and can attain a size of up to 3 feet in diameter. Silvery pink flowers decorate the plant in late summer and early autumn. Tuberous mediterranean anemones bloom during the spring and summer while fall flowering anemones bloom in late summer to fall and have fibrous roots.

They have 120 species with three main types. The haddon s carpet anemone lives singly in the shallow waters of the indo pacific and red sea. Grecian windflower this tuberous anemone displays a thick mat of fuzzy leaves. Those with very dangerous stings are the stinging sea anemones belonging to the family actinodendronidae.

Most anemones are sessile with a specialized foot used to anchor them in soft substrates or attach themselves to rocks and corals. Spring flowering anemones are so called because they bloom in spring. Spring flowering tuberous mediterranean and fall flowering. This colorful anemone is also referred to as haddon s anemone saddle anemone saddle carpet anemone or saddleback anemone.

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. Some anemones with strong stings are the carpet anemones in the cryptodendrum genus previously stoichactis and the heteractis genus condy anemones in the condylactis genus tube anemones in the pachycerianthus genus.