Sebae anemone

Lederanemone with Amphiprion bicinctus

The Lederanemone ( Heteractis crispa ) is a sea anemone from the tropical Indo-Pacific coral reefs and the Red Sea.

Features

Leather anemones have a leathery gray, yellow mottled in the lower part of the body, which is covered with sticky warts. The oral disc is gray, brown, purple or light green. The numerous tentacles (up to 800 ) can be up to ten inches long, often tortuous and taper to mauve, blue, rarely yellow or green tops. Your oral disc usually reached a diameter of 20 inches, but can be up to half a meter are large. They live mainly on sedimentary, less often directly in the coral reef, dig their feet deep in the sand and tighten fully at risk in the substrate back. Leather anemones live in symbiosis with zooxanthellae from which they get a portion of the nutrients they need.

Leather anemones are symbiotic anemones and important symbiotic partners of the anemone fish. A total of 14 species of anemone fish and in his youth and the three - spot damsel ( Dascyllus trimaculatus ) accept them as partners. If no fish available as a symbiotic partner, the tentacles are often shortened.

In saltwater aquarium Lederanemone is difficult to keep.