How clown fish find their preferred anenomes in the wild - through smell

[finksmart]

Interesting read:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/08/29/nemo-clownfish-smell.html

 

[BigJay]

Very interesting. I wonder if the water preference experiments would work the same with captive bred and raised clowns. Will clowns that have never seen a reef or the ocean before react the same way to water that has been exposed to leaves or anenomes?

 

[finksmart]

Yes, it's actually stated in the article the captive bred behaves the same.

 

[BumpyJohnson]

Thanks very good article

 

[Slakker]

Great read, thanks for the link!

Maybe we can use this to finally get rid of the popular opinion that CB clowns can't/don't host.

 

[TheOtherReefer]

good read

 

[Smo]

A very good read. THX