Cute Clownfish Story!

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Well, you have probably all heard of clownfish hosting with wierd objects like powerheads when there isnt an anemone present. But how about another fish? I have a yellow watchman goby{who sits on the bottom, which is maybe y my clarkii picked him as opposed to any one else} and for a while we thought my clarkii clown was just being a bully because he was the biggest, annoying the territorial goby by nestling up by him next to his burrow. But after a while, the goby stopped opening his mouth at him and pushing him away, and was accepting the attention in a more positive way. He would go rub against him in the same way they would do an anemone. Then a few days later, the clown started catching food and bringing it to the goby, as if he couldnt feed himself. Then the next day, he picked up a hermit crab and a snail and brought it to the goby like he was giving him presents! Maybe to get the goby to get him to like him more, because he wasnt too fond of him, but also didnt islike him anymore. So we have come to the conclusion that he thinks it is his duty to take care of the goby, like his "anemone."
 
Yeah, I have to admit that that is rather cute. My sebae hosted a caulerpa, and brought it food. However, the caulerpa disintegrated after releasing spores, so the clown began to host a piece of synthetic coral. It got knocked over, so he hosts nothing now. Im sure he'll find some strange object to host later. :lol:
 
Yeah, they are in fact the best clown to use for hosting, because they take such good care of their host. Sebae clowns are actually a conspecific of clarkii clowns, they look and act the same.
 
Yeah, they are in fact the best clown to use for hosting, because they take such good care of their host. Sebae clowns are actually a conspecific of clarkii clowns, they look and act the same.
Yeah i was wondering about that because all the pics ive seen of the sebaes looked a lot like my little guy! I read once that for a sebae anemone, it said keep with a clownfish for best reaults. Yeah I wish I could have something for him to host, besides my goby but i dont want an anemone to go around killing things. Maybe if i could just find a coral with tentacles maybe he would like it. One time at my LFS I saw one hosting a long-tentacle coral, and it really was a coral, then someone bought the fish and not his coral! I was amazed because most of the time you pay big bucks for a clownfish-anemone/host pair. Its just so cute how they rub in them and seemingly love them so much.
 

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