Clownfish bringing food to cleaner shrimp?!

[hankacrank]

I tried searching our forum for this but came up short.

I'm out of town so my wife facetimed me cuz she was worried she wasn't going to feed the tank correctly.

She put several flakes on the water surface and the baby clown and cleaner shrimp got excited. The clown went up and ate two flakes at the surface while the shrimp patiently waited well below her. After the first two flakes, the clown then pulled a flake and brought it down to the shrimp and let go of it in front of the shrimp. The shrimp of course then went to town. At first I thought the clown had just lost grip of the flake and left it for the shrimp. But then she went up and pulled another flake down and brought it to the shrimp. Then a third time and my wife and I realized what was going on and started flipping out. Each time she brought a flake to the shrimp, she'd swim right behind her facing downwards until the shrimp was done, then go up for another.

Have any of you ever heard of this?! When I get home I'm gonna try to videotape this behavior.

 

[Big G]

That is so cool. Never heard of that before.