mvandepeer
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Last friday I came into the possession of a large bubbletip anemone. The person I got it from is moving and wanted it to go to a good home... mine. When removing from the previous tank it was attached to two rocks and he tried to coerce it to release from one of the rocks and in the process I think it budded or tore... I don't know. He said it just released without any force.
The healthy half looks like this..
Here is what the smaller section looks like...
This morning when the lights came on the tentacles were healthier looking and the maroon clown I picked up on saturday seemed to be nurturing it by swimming thru the tentacles and sorta fluffing it up. throughout the day the sickly one had moved about 3 inches and it started after the clown payed attention to it.
My question is... Do clowns (maroon clown in this case) take care of sick anemones? I have done much reading on the symbiosis and have always wanted an anemone/clown. Not once have I heard of this nurturing but after what i've seen it makes me think they do.
Here is a few more pics just for fun...
Thank you for any help you can offer.
The healthy half looks like this..
Here is what the smaller section looks like...
This morning when the lights came on the tentacles were healthier looking and the maroon clown I picked up on saturday seemed to be nurturing it by swimming thru the tentacles and sorta fluffing it up. throughout the day the sickly one had moved about 3 inches and it started after the clown payed attention to it.
My question is... Do clowns (maroon clown in this case) take care of sick anemones? I have done much reading on the symbiosis and have always wanted an anemone/clown. Not once have I heard of this nurturing but after what i've seen it makes me think they do.
Here is a few more pics just for fun...
Thank you for any help you can offer.
