Large Antozoo hermit or, only very rarely gregario, pertaining to the order of the Attiniari; much colorful and much decorative one comes from the Red Mar, the Indian ocean and the Pacific ocean.
 
Sessile and completely lacking in a skeletal support, fixed on a support, which one cliff or one madrepora, by means of an adhesive disc said foot, of a color marroncino verdastro.

 
In top to the foot the boccale opening of the same color of the foot, encircled from one is found crown of long tentacles until 10 cm.
 
The tentacles, traslucidi and opalescenti, of color red, rose or blue, introduce towards the apex, generally of an ignited color devout of the rest, a rigonfiamento to shape of fiasco or onion, the same color of the tentacle or, to times, whitish; the tentacles are covered most numerous urticanti cells, said "cnidoblasti" and come use you from the animal are like defense from eventual predators that for procurarsi the food.

Sturdy, for being an invertebrate, a lot adapted to the Aquarius of barrier in cohabitation with other invertebrates and fish of small largeness, preferibimente Amphiprion, with which it often establishes a relationship of simbiosi.
 
Not advisable, instead, to approach it to other sessili invertebrates that could be ustionati from its powerful urticanti cells or to bind together it to fish discs of a valve, like Hyppocampus, that they could come captured and it eats to you.

 
K prefers to arrange itself in a place strongly illuminated from linear fluorescent lamps with one coloration of 10.000 and beyond or with lamps HQI and interested from one sure water current.
 
Carnivore, nutre of all us that he arrives to capacity of its urticanti tentacles: it is mangime dry is dept freeze: artemie or chironomus; if much large this anemone pu to be nourished also with pezzeti of fish or polpa of cozza.

 
Antozoo sturdy and easy to acclimatize itself, does not have particular requirements, regarding the other invertebrates, as far as the chemical and physical values of the water that must be filtered and be only very aereata.
 
They are however always advisable partial changes with sifonatura of the bottom and regular oligoelement additions and bioelementi.
 
For all these reasons would not have to never lack in the Aquarius of invertebrates of the principiante and also in that one devout the expert acquariofilo.

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