Ocellaris moving between anems with no problems!

[sonofgaladriel]

Hi Guys,
I just thought it interesting, with the discussion over how an anemone knows 'not' to eat a clownfish, or how a clownfish 'protects' itself from the anemone's sting, to mention what I have observed over the last two days in my 240.
As you know, I've added a few new anemones to my tank over the past several weeks.
I have a mature pair of captive bred/raised black ocellaris for many years now that have hosted a large rose BTA for over a year now.
Over the past two days and nights, I have watched the female of this pair (the male to a lessor extent) move from their old host rose BTA to my new red haddoni, across the tank to my new purple LTA, across to the new Rittieri, to my yellow BTA, and then back to the red haddoni!
It does this instantly without any hesitation or reaction from the anemones! The female clearly snuggles in each anemone, hangs out for a brief spell, then returns, unharmed to the red haddoni.
Watching this interaction, I must assume that the female has secreted something on her scales that is a generally counteracting all of the various species of anemone's sting.
All of the anemones are sticky to my touch, eating, and appear healthy.
Pretty cool to witness.
What do you guys think?

 

[Noise]

I find that interesting. I seem to remember reading that each fish was thought to become "invisible" to a particular species. Interesting to note that an ocellaris is hosting all those different anemones too.

How long have you had all those anemones together? I thought that some anemones will wage a sort of chemical warfare on each other when kept in the same tank.

 

[OrionN]

That is alot of anemones for a reeef tank. I hope you are not going to have WW III in your tnak.

 

[Mr Bojangles]

Same thing here, my Clarkii will go between my carpet and my LTA like its nothing. I guess it depends on his mood were he sleeps.