Can a clown spread "disease" or affect two Nems?

[chuckdallas]

We got 2 LTAs from the LFS and my paired Saddlebacks wouldn't go into the LTA (as I suspected) for 2 weeks. On Black Friday, I got up at 4 am to go to a large, local LFS that had all livestock 25% off and bought a Rose BTA. The Saddlebacks were in the LTA when I came home from the store with the RBTA, so for the first week or so, they would go between the LTAs and the RBTA.

Does moving from one species of LTA to a BTA or RBTA cause trouble for the other type of Nem?

Can a clown transport the stinging power of one Nem to a second type to cause the second type of Nem to be affected?

 

[garygb]

I haven't personally observed that happening, but I have heard reports of clownfish serving as vectors of some sort, seemingly irritating/harming other anemones within the tank when their are multiple anemones (both conspecifics, as well as, other species). Do they carry nematocysts on their slime coat that is detrimental to the other anemone? I don't know. Could it be a pathogen? Yet another dissertation topic.