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Old 01-18-2008, 11:41 PM
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ok ... i have a bta hosting a yellow stripe maroon , well i bought a pair of baby maroons and figured i would get them a bta of there own.. well i moved the baby maroons to a new 3 gallon nano and left the bta in my big tank .. well after i shut down the lights tonight i had a snack and then went to have a look at the tank to see what might be crawling around in there .. i saw my bta hosting my 2 domino demsils. .. they were just swimming into it and resting on it just like my yellow stripe maroon ... what gives? i have never seen or heard of this ... i will get some pictures tommorow . did anyone ever hear of this???
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Old 01-18-2008, 11:48 PM
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I have heard of it and it is not common at all. BUT, if you thnk about it, it makes sense because clowns and part of the damsel family as well.
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Oh yeah, Elliott I had forgotten about that lol. I have seen cardinal fish swim just above anemones, just touching the tips. But cardinals mostly hang out in the spines or urchins.
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Domino damsels are known to host in certain anemones...very cool.
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yeah it is, dont shrimp also crawl around anemones too? I remeber seeing domino damsels at long beach, just below a boat, there were at least 15 all in a group judt swiming over this white thing.
I really think its cool how some animals have relations like clowns and anemone, cardinals and urchins, shrimp, and shrimp gobies, its kinda cool
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still freaking me out
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yeah it is, dont shrimp also crawl around anemones too? I remeber seeing domino damsels at long beach, just below a boat, there were at least 15 all in a group judt swiming over this white thing.
I really think its cool how some animals have relations like clowns and anemone, cardinals and urchins, shrimp, and shrimp gobies, its kinda cool
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So what prevents the anenome from eating a shrimp that crawls onto it?
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maybe the shrimp says somethin like "fugethaboutait"
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Old 02-08-2008, 08:33 AM
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hahahaahha real funny Anthony.
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