Beginner With Marine Fish

[chrissaysyes]

Sorry for hi-jacking

Thanks Lynden.

 

[Lynden]

On a side note you have a domino damsel I assume? Well done; must be neat to watch.

 

[chrissaysyes]

Domino indeed. Really fun to watch. First fish I've had to host anything. Added him before the end of the crypto cycle so Im hoping he makes it.

 

[australia]

okay thanks everyone, i have one main question, what are anemones? other sea fish? coral? i dont have a clue!

 

[Musho3210]

cnidaria

 

[SkiFletch]

I'm told that the only permanent sex change in clownfish is once one becomes a dominant mature female, there's no going back... I'm sure Wilkerson's "Clownfish" would be the definitive on that though

To the OP, you're gonna have to do some serious research on nem if you want to keep them, they're not exactly easy

 

[Lynden]

cnidaria

Phylum Cnidaria, Class Anthozoa, subclass Zoantharia (Hexacorallia), order Actinaria. They are related to zoas, mushrooms, and hard corals, but only distantly realated to soft corals.

 

[Musho3210]

there also closely related to jellyfish

 

[andywg]

there also closely related to jellyfish

Closely? They share the same Phylum, but are different at the class level (jellyfish are Class Scyphozoa, sea anemones Class Anthozoa).

As an example, we are in the same phylum (Phylum Chordata), but different class as birds (we are Class Mammilia, they are Class Aves), but I don't often hear people comment how closely related we are to falcons.

 

[chrissaysyes]

I like to think of myself as a condor

 

[Lynden]

Condors are new world vultures, and thus are part of the order Ciconiiformes and related to storks and herons.

 

[chrissaysyes]

You're a butt

 

[Lynden]

What kind?

 

[chrissaysyes]

well not quite a butt but closely related