Anemones, mushrooms, and zoanthids
Adhesive Anemone
Cryptodendrum adhaesivum
Photo: Paul · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Key facts
- Temperature24–27 °C
- pH8.1–8.4
- Adult size30 cm
- Difficulty★★★★☆
- WaterMarine
- Reef safeNo
Full profile
- Type
- Anemone
- Family
- Thalassianthidae
- Origin
- Indo-Pacific
- Size
- 15 – 30 cm
- Temperature
- 24 – 27°C
- pH
- 8.1 – 8.4
- Salinity
- 1.024 – 1.026
- Ca / KH / Mg
- marine standard
- Difficulty
- ★★★★☆
- Light
- High
- Current
- average
- Aggressiveness
- High (very stinging)
- Feeding
- photosynthesis; direct feeding
- Reef Safe
- ❌ No
Notes: An anemone that forms a carpet of tiny tentacles with colored edges. Very sticky; clownfish do not typically inhabit it.
