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I have a baby chromis that got adopted by my cleaner wrasse and he now believes himself to be a cleaner..... He and the wrasse regularly takes turns "cleaning" each other and the chromis has even tried his luck on my maroon clown and sifting goby...
I got the chromis when he was but a half inch baba and I guess with the wrasse being as inquisitive as it is and immediately approaching the chromis when he was introduced maybe some form of parental/big brother relationship imprinted. These two are never further than about 15cm apart even at dinner time. Kinda like they are schooling.
At one stage I thought I would lose the chromis because he went bananas at night when the wrasse would go to sleep in his little slime sleeping bag and would dart around the tank like it was possessed non stop at a million miles an hour. It would not rest in anything in my reef so it was suggested to me to add a sea fan as chromis apparently likes taking refuge in them? I had to introduce a hideous plastic sea fan which he immediately took to as his refuge and he even goes completely white at night to camouflage himself to sleep.
That coupled with my urchin that wont let go of a little Captain America shield he carries on his back I think these three guys qualify as odd relationships I guess. Odd at the very least.
Below is GT (wrasse), Rasmus (chromis) and the hideous white sea fan...
I got the chromis when he was but a half inch baba and I guess with the wrasse being as inquisitive as it is and immediately approaching the chromis when he was introduced maybe some form of parental/big brother relationship imprinted. These two are never further than about 15cm apart even at dinner time. Kinda like they are schooling.
At one stage I thought I would lose the chromis because he went bananas at night when the wrasse would go to sleep in his little slime sleeping bag and would dart around the tank like it was possessed non stop at a million miles an hour. It would not rest in anything in my reef so it was suggested to me to add a sea fan as chromis apparently likes taking refuge in them? I had to introduce a hideous plastic sea fan which he immediately took to as his refuge and he even goes completely white at night to camouflage himself to sleep.
That coupled with my urchin that wont let go of a little Captain America shield he carries on his back I think these three guys qualify as odd relationships I guess. Odd at the very least.
Below is GT (wrasse), Rasmus (chromis) and the hideous white sea fan...