Common Name: Haddon's Sea/Carpet Anemone

Species Name: Stichodactyla haddoni (Saville-Kent, 1893)


Range: Indo-Pacific Ocean: Red Sea to the Fiji Islands


Natural Environment: Has a temperature range of 72 to 79°F (22 - 26°C) and requires several feedings per week of various fish flesh type foods. Does best in deep sandy substrates. May extend itself at night in the hope of finding plankton-like foods in the evening hours. Much easier to keep than S. mertensii.


General Husbandry: Has a temperature range of 72 to 79°F (22 - 26°C) and requires several feedings per week of various fish flesh type foods. Does best in deep sandy substrates. May extend itself at night in the hope of finding plankton-like foods in the evening hours. Much easier to keep than S. mertensii.

S. haddoni is known to host the follwing species of anemonefishes: A. akindynos, A. chrysogaster, A. chrysopterus, A. clarkii, A. polymnus, and A. sebae


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