Percula hosting, "sucking" hairy shrooms...

[reef-luva]

I picked up some very nice shrooms of the hairy variety and my percula is starting to host them, one by chasing the chromis and the anthias away, second by "sucking" on the "hair" of the shrooms....soooo damn cute! In all my years, I have never seen this....anybody else have similar experiences? Not hosting, but sucking....

 

[greech]

That is what clowns do to acclimate themsleves to the sting. They also will bite off the tentacles sometimes. They often get their head acclimated first and then start doing "drive by's" skimming the hosting nem/coral with their body.

 

[reef-luva]

That is what clowns do to acclimate themsleves to the sting. They also will bite off the tentacles sometimes. They often get their head acclimated first and then start doing "drive by's" skimming the hosting nem/coral with their body.

greech, so ur saying that mushrooms sting?

 

[BonsaiNut]

Yeah, it's pretty standard behavior.