Budding? Clownfish nurturing?

[mvandepeer]

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.

 

[mvandepeer]

bump... anyone?

 

[Slakker]

Often times it's quite the opposite. Maroons tend to be pretty rough with their anemones, which can sometimes kill the anemone if it's too small or unhealthy.

 

[mvandepeer]

Well as you can see in the pictures the healthy BTA is quite large.
And by watching the behavior of this maroon, it really seems like he is caring for both. Today after getting home from work the sickly BTA is looking ALOT healthier with full tentacle extension and reacts positively to small morsels of food.

I'm still curious to if clowns in general can show caring/affection towards their hosts.

 

[Slakker]

Some do, I suppose. I've heard of people's clowns taking food into the anemone before eating for themselves.

However, I seem to remember reading somewhere that clowns will also take morsels of food back to the PVC pipe they hang out in most while in QT. This particular article theorized that perhaps it was more of a stockpiling behavior than it was an attempt to make sure the anemone was well fed.

In any case the smaller half of your anemone looks like it is/was in really rough shape. Be sure to keep an eye on it for signs of it falling apart, and if you see it start "melting" take it out immediately so it can't pollute the tank.