Is is natural for clownfishes to pick up food

[orientalexpress]

and feed their anamones they're host in?


lapsan

 

[landlord]

I do not believe they are intentionally feeding their anemones but I have a female latezonatus who is constantly grabbing every bit of food that enters their tank and what she cannot swallow outright gets spit up into one of the anemones. Sometimes her mate snags the piece sometimes the anemone gets a snack.

Personally I believe that they are just gluttonous.

landlord

 

[baondayko]

+1 on the gluttonous

I think they are just looking for a place to stick their food. My clownfish will devour everything, regardless of whether it is actually hungry.

 

[tibob32]

my clown fish does feed it's host. You can very clearly trying to stick it to a tentacle until the nem takes it (elegance since my nem died)

 

[traveller7]

Clowns will "store" food anywhere, flower pots in breeder tanks, powerheads they sleep next to, anemones, non-hosting corals, etc. The anemone or coral may be getting some benefit directly, but it has not been established if the captive clown benefits directly from the habit.

 

[pr12]

My pair store their food in a corner of the tank where theres very little flow, they dont have anything to feed yet but they seem to eat it at a later point because its usually gone in an hour or two

 

[IPowderBlueTang]

My clowns would pig out and would always bring a piece of krill to the mouth of their ritteri and feed it. I have had 2 sets of clowns, I notice that do this. The ones I have now never feed their host.

 

[SwampyBill]

My female perc used to bring food to her anemone.

 

[racefan]

When I would put a piece of shrimp(or other large food) in the tank my female clown would grab it & take it straight to my RBTA. The last couple of weeks she has started taking it away from the Anemone. I will feed the nem & she will go in and grab it out of it's tentacles.