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Distribution: Indo-Pacific; in shallow water in calm environments, on sandy bottoms or on platform reefs of lagoons.
In Stichodactyla gigantea, unlike Stichodactyla haddoni, the color shading is absent and the tentacles, about 1cm long, are dense only at the edge and become less towards the center.
Stichodactyla gigantea hardly nettles, but sticks very strongly! The Giant Anemone is an omnivore in the truest sense of the word, on its menu are also careless or sick fish and crustaceans that come too close to it.
Here applies as with all sea anemones: If the foot is not injured, and the water values are right, it is good to acclimate. Since it becomes very large, the basin should be accordingly dimensioned, besides, sea anemones in freshly furnished aquariums have nothing to look for.
It needs stable water values for the care.
When buying please always make sure that the foot is unharmed, the animal does not look limp and the mouth is closed.
The following sea anemonefishes are known partners from nature:
Amphiprion clarkii, Amphiprion ocellaris, Amphiprion percula, Amphiprion perideraion, Amphiprion akindynos, Amphiprion bicinctus, Amphiprion rubrocinctus.
It is possible that also other sea anemonefishes
Synonyms:
Actinia amethystina Quoy & Gaimard, 1833
Actinia brevitentacula Quoy & Gaimard
Actinia gigantea (Forskål, 1775)
Actinia gigas Renieri
Actinia gygas Renieri
Actinia parvitentaculata Quoy & Gaimard, 1833
Discosoma gigantea
Discosoma giganteum
Discosoma kenti Haddon & Shackleton, 1893
Isacmaea gigantea Hemprich & Ehrenberg
Polyparium ambulans Korotneff, 1886
Priapus giganteus Forsskål, 1775
Radianthus parvitentaculata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
Radianthus parvitentaculatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
Stichodactyla kenti (Haddon & Shackleton, 1893)
Stoichactis (Priapus) giganteum (Forsskål, 1775)
Stoichactis gigantea (Forsskål, 1775)
Stoichactis giganteum (Forsskål, 1775)
Stoichactis giganteus (Forsskål, 1775)
Stoichactis gigantium
Stoichactis intermedia Lager, 1911
Stoichactis kenti Haddon & Shackleton, 1893
Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Actiniaria (Order) > Nynantheae (Suborder) > Thenaria (Infraorder) > Endomyaria (Superfamily) > Stichodactylidae (Family) > Stichodactyla (Genus) > Stichodactyla gigantea (Species)