Unusual pairing?

[Foody]

Last week I added a Black Damsel (white spot on the head and one white spot on each side) to my tank. On the first night I noticed he was awfully close to my RBTA, even brushing up against it. I quickly googled the situation to find that there are 7 species of Damselfish that are immune to the stings of an anemone, Clownfishes being just one of those sub-species of Damsels. As of today my Black Damsel and my True Percula are happy as two pigs in poop, enjoying the luxurious surrounds of 2 side-by-side RBTA's. You'd think they've been 'married' for 40 years.

Is this normal? I know we get a wide variety of clowns due to the cross-mating of different clowns. Is it possible that they, too, could procreate? Sounds like lunacy to me but then we live in an amazing world.

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[BuffaloReef]

I would expect them to grow out of it but you never know. Domino damsels host in certain anemomes. I'm not sure about that species but most damsels that host only do it as juveniles. I haven't owned a domino damsel but my understanding is they're aggressive when older unless they have plenty of room.

In my first tank I had a snowflake eel and an ocellaris clown together. The clown routinely did its mating shimmy to the eel. Thankfully the eel just ignored the poor confused fish.