Heteractis aurora

Glass bead anemone with clown fish

The glass beads Anemone ( Heteractis aurora ) is a sea anemone from the tropical Indo-Pacific coral reefs and the Red Sea. Glass bead anemones are off-white, brown or purple color. You have so that they look up to five centimeters long tentacles that have at small distances swelling, such as short strings of pearls. Your oral disc reached a diameter of 30 centimeters. They dig their feet deep in the sand and tighten fully at risk in the substrate back. Glass bead anemones live in symbiosis with zooxanthellae from which they get a portion of the nutrients they need.

Glass bead anemones are Symbioseanemone and an important partner of the symbiosis Anemone fish. A total of seven species from the Amphiprion clarkii complex and in his youth and the three - spot damsel ( Dascyllus trimaculatus ) accept them as partners.

In saltwater aquarium glass bead anemone is very difficult to keep.