This is one of the most magnificent and colorful sea anemone that is found singly at depths of 13 to 130 feet on reefs and soft sandy bottoms. They can be bright green, reddish orange, gray, light green or even striped and have numerous tentacles on the surface of the oral disc and a sticky foot with which they attaches to the substratum. Their tentacles are short and stubby. The mouth is in the center of the disc through which it takes food as well as expel waste. It can grows to a size of 50-75 cm. They derive their food from symbiotic algae, zooxanthellae that dwells within their tissues, sea urchins, snails, crabs, shrimps, as well as small fish those are preyed by him through mouth. In aquarium they may feed chopped fish and prawns. A temperature of 22-26 °C and salinity of Specific Gravity 1.023 to 1.025 is ideal. Sea anemones generally survive for very long periods even up to 100 years. It has so far not breed in captivity.