Condylactis gigantea

Caribbean Gold Rose ( Condylactis gigantea )

The Caribbean Gold Rose ( Condylactis gigantea ) is the largest of the tropical sea anemone, western Atlantic. It comes from the Bermudas, on the southern coast of Florida, the Caribbean to the coast of Brazil, in lagoons and reefs to 30 meters depth.

The animals reach a diameter of 30 centimeters. The body is always hidden in holes in the substrate, only the 15 -centimeter-long tentacles protrude. The tentacles can brown, white, purple or green be. You have bubble -like thickened, different colored tops.

Like many other sea anemones of the tropical shallow seas lives and the Caribbean Gold Rose with zooxanthellae, single-celled algae from the group of dinoflagellates, in symbiosis. The zooxanthellae provide the anemone a portion of the nutrients photosynthetically produced. In addition, the Caribbean Gold Rose begins planktonic organisms. In addition, the Caribbean Gold Rose symbiotic partner of crustaceans such as shrimp partners.

The Caribbean Gold Rose can be kept in saltwater aquariums. Sometimes with food coloring artificially colored specimens in trade, should not be bought.