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Posted: January 24 2004 at 3:37pm |
Has anyone ever seen an anemonefish "nurse" on a new anemone? I just bought a Rose Anemone (AWSOME BY THE WAY, Thanks Aquatic Dreams!) and my female GSM will take one of the polyp tentacles into it's mouth and nurse on it. She seems to be VERY gentle and slides it out of her mouth after a moment. Her "little old man" does not do it, he is just loving rubbing in it. Has anyone ever seen this?
OK, now she is doing it to the little BTA that was on the same rock as the Rose. I bought both on that rock so we didn't risk tearing one's foot trying to get it off.
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Posted: January 24 2004 at 3:40pm |
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Posted: January 24 2004 at 3:48pm |
Boy, we just got an anemone and 2 clowns. Glad my boy clown isn't the only one sucking on a tentacle.  I kind of wondered if the anemone produced some sort of mucus that the clown likes. I dunno, but it looks like some kind of symbiotic deal to me.
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Posted: January 24 2004 at 5:25pm |
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I have seen it, I think they just breath hard and don't care what's in their mouths. I could be very wrong though.
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Posted: January 27 2004 at 8:02pm |
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Ok, here's another one for you. (isn't nature wonderfully strange?) She has now taken to feeding her anemone krill. She will snatch a piece and bring it to the rose anemone and basically shove it into it's mouth. I know, she is bringing it to her "nest" to eat. Well, that's what I thought too, but it's not true. She goes back up, grabs another piece and brings it back down for her and her little old man to share. How bizarre! How bizarre, how bizarre!
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Posted: January 27 2004 at 8:20pm |
I have a perc who feeds his anemone before he eats anything himself, Amazing bizzare
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Posted: January 28 2004 at 7:30am |
Want to know something even more amazing. In our tanks we have witnessed this many times, but there has NEVER been one single documented instance of an anemonefish feeding an anemone in the wild.
Crazy huh?
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Posted: January 28 2004 at 7:31am |
Carl, IMO you are now officially hooked on this hobby for all the same "bizzare" reasons as the rest of us! 
Have you ever seen a Royal Gramma build a nest of macroalgae frags and then live in it? 
Have you ever seen a Yellow Tang spend hours chasing air bubbles and eat them just for fun? 
Have you ever seen a green Dragon Wrasse pick up large rocks and and quickly snatch any bugs found scurrying underneath? 
Have you ever seen the mucous sleeping coccoon of a Six-Line Wrasse floating around the tank in the morning?
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Posted: January 28 2004 at 8:11am |
LOL... Mark, I have been hooked for a long time but I finally got the courage to try another amenone... ananenome... amenomenomone... That thing with the anemonefish in it. Since then, it's just been a show of sorts. Do I still have a T.V.?
I always find that Mother Nature is the most interesting, original, odd, surprising and wonderful form of entertainment that money can't buy. I never thought that I would be fascinated watching a darkened tank with only the light of an led intently watching for anything to move. But hey, at least I'm not the only wacko out there! 
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Posted: January 28 2004 at 8:13am |
 Adam Blundell wrote:
there has NEVER been one single documented instance of an anemonefish feeding an anemone in the wild.
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It's because they are all clowns who never had an audience before! They enjoy the spotlight and it let's the clown within really shine! 
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Posted: January 28 2004 at 12:24pm |
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IMO,
The anemone fish aren't necessariy 'feeding' the anemone. I have an oscelaris that appears to feed her long tentacle. But upon closer observation, she simply grabs food and returns to the safety of the anemone to feed. If she drops some - lucky anemone. If not, it's on its own ... ????
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Posted: January 28 2004 at 2:22pm |
Shane, like I said earlier I thought the exact same thing. But, no... She actually took the food and practically shoved it into the anemone's mouth. She then swam up, grabbed another piece of krill and had dinner with Barney (not the annoying purple dinosaur, it's Barney and Bettie from the flintstones).
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