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  by Oscar The giant green anemone is a sea creature, and it is around 10 cm wide. The giant green anemone is colored green and brown. The reason it is green is because they share a relationship with green algae. The giant green anemone gets it's color from green algae that lives in it's tissues. Objects like rocks, sand, and shell fragments stick to it. The anemone eats smaller creatures
that go through it's path, and it uses it's tenticles to catch
it's When I went to Half Moon Bay, I
saw a giant green anemone that was with other anemones. It had
a lot of rocks on it. I did not catch it, but I did feel it.
It felt sticky and soft. It behaves weird; it closes when you
touch it. The animals that lived around it were little fish,
shell creatures and crabs.
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food.
It does not tolerate polluted water. The anemone's enemies are
the sea spiders and wentletrap snails, because they feed on the
anemone's tissues. The giant green anemone lives in low tide
pools and rocks from Sitka to Panama.