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  1. missionsix

    missionsix Super Moderator Staff Member

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    Clowns are actually damselfish.
     
    missionsix, Aug 21, 2008
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  2. wareagle35031

    wareagle35031 Bubble Tip Anemone

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    +1 correctamundo good call mission, all damselfish are capable of going in and out of an anemone.:wave:
     
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  3. gazog

    gazog Kole Tang

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    I have had a fire fish in a 20 gallon long for over amost 9 months with 2 False perc's and a Domino damsel and had absolutley no probllems. Nobody chases nobody, even when feeding they are All happy.
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  4. PharmrJohn

    PharmrJohn The Dude

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    Yup, I want to get a Domino for a 5.5g nano sometime and put an anenome in it to see what happens. Also, is the hosting thing just a damsel trait? Or is must mainly the Domino and Clowns that do it.
     
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  5. missionsix

    missionsix Super Moderator Staff Member

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    Not sure about the damsel trait. I've seen a humbug(striped damsel) and a domino hosting an anemone.
     
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  6. cuttingras

    cuttingras Starving Artist :)

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    yes a Damsel trait, they will host pretty much anything that will let them, whereas clowns are pretty specific to species, however there are those occasions where they will branch out to other corals too, if not supplied an anemone that they like.
     
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  7. wareagle35031

    wareagle35031 Bubble Tip Anemone

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    I have seen clown fish host the side of a tank, sand bed, not to mention frogspawn, hammer coral, torch, green star polyps, heck pretty much anything.
     
    wareagle35031, Aug 22, 2008
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    cuttingras Starving Artist :)

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    Any time, any day, you can walk up to my tank and my clown is mauling the toadstool! I can't wait to see what he does when the xenia gets bigger!:eek:
     
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