What other fish associate with anemones?
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One of my Chromis likes to hang out in the Condy Nem.
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ThePurple12
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Serious?
Hemmdog
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Yeah. It’s very strange lol.
bknope
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Does it actually touch its tentacles??
Hemmdog
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Not really, he just hovers right above the nems mouth for a good portion of the day. It’s my only reddish coral/invert in the tank. Maybe that is why.
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I have a baby regal angel who gets extremely close or even hangs out under one of my magifica. He is either confused because he was too long housed only with anemonefish or likes living dangerously...
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As of fish that really use anemones as hosts - there is at least one Mediterranean/East Atlantic goby species, Gobius bucchichii, that lives in association with the Snakelocks anemone (Anemone viridis).
(from https://reefs.com/2017/11/19/mediteraneans-anemone-fish/#:~:text=Bucchichs, or Anemone Gobies, are,an easy fish to miss.)
And if we expand this to anemone-like corals like Heliofungia actiniformis then there are pipefish (Siokunichthys nigrolineatus - Mushroom pipefish) who use those as hosts:
(from https://www.jungledragon.com/specie/10492/mushroom-coral-pipefish.html)
(from https://reefs.com/2017/11/19/mediteraneans-anemone-fish/#:~:text=Bucchichs, or Anemone Gobies, are,an easy fish to miss.)
And if we expand this to anemone-like corals like Heliofungia actiniformis then there are pipefish (Siokunichthys nigrolineatus - Mushroom pipefish) who use those as hosts:
(from https://www.jungledragon.com/specie/10492/mushroom-coral-pipefish.html)
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ThePurple12
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I think you’re right. Probably everything in the family Pomacentridae.
I just quoted you
Sipec
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q: You madladI think you’re right. Probably everything in the family Pomacentridae.
I just quoted you
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