I know this sounds ridiculous, but do anemones clean snails?
It’s become like a car wash for me Trochus snails. They’re covered in fuzz/algae, then they move themselves into the tentacles of my anemone. After a few days of hanging out in the tentacles (while they’re inflated), the snails come out looking clean and fuzz free.
Is the anemone really eating the fuzz? Or is it the friction from the tentacles that cleans the shell? Anyone else experience this?
For reference, the snails crawls onto the down pipe of the tank. And the anemone is on the back of the rock structure
It’s become like a car wash for me Trochus snails. They’re covered in fuzz/algae, then they move themselves into the tentacles of my anemone. After a few days of hanging out in the tentacles (while they’re inflated), the snails come out looking clean and fuzz free.
Is the anemone really eating the fuzz? Or is it the friction from the tentacles that cleans the shell? Anyone else experience this?
For reference, the snails crawls onto the down pipe of the tank. And the anemone is on the back of the rock structure