Species photo: Ben Costamagna, CC BY 4.0, via iNaturalist
From our species guide
Care at a glance
- Care levelModerate
- Reef safeWith caution
- TemperamentAggressiveStings nearby corals and wanders the tank
- Temperature75–80 °F
- Salinity1.025–1.026 SG
- pH8.1–8.4
- Min tank40 gallons
- FeedingMostly from light, plus mysis shrimp and chopped fish / shrimp
- Max size12 in (30.5 cm)
In plain words: The bubble tip anemone is a soft, squishy animal that looks like a flower. Its arms are called tentacles. Many of them end in a little round bubble. It is related to corals and jellyfish.
