Conservation and Threats

This species is generally not collected for the aquarium trade¹, although it is apparently easy to keep in an aquarium². Although it has no known threats, it has only been recorded from a few restricted locations in Australia. Hence it could be vulnerable to disturbances that occur within its range, or if harvesting for the aquarium trade were to begin¹. It also hosts symbiotic zooxanthellae, of which a chronic loss has been suggested to weaken the cnidarian metabolism, and may eventually lead to reduced fitness and death³. Hence, elevated temperature stress which is known to affect the photosynthetic machinery and hence elicit zooxanthellae to be expelled from cnidarians may also affect sea anemones.