Path: utzoo!hoptoad!ihnp4!laidbak!spl1!ddsw1!gryphon!richard
From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: Anemones
Message-ID: <2553@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 12 Dec 87 03:20:13 GMT
References: <2526@gryphon.CTS.COM> <7117@pur-ee.UUCP>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Distribution: alt
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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Summary: warning, smart ass answer

In article <7117@pur-ee.UUCP> tom@pur-ee.UUCP (Tom McCain) writes:
>In article <2526@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>>
>>Clowns will get along with most any anemone. They acclimatize themselve
>>to a "new" anemone by quickly flicking the anemone with their caudal
>>peduncle (the part of the body just before the tail). After doing this
>>for a few days, they "get used" to the anemone and can lounge around
>>in it with impunity.
>>
>
>Is it a common practice for damsels to do this???  I've noticed that
>my domino damsel has been playing quite often in a purple anemone.
>I thought this was only something that clowns did...???

Nope. Yours is the only damsel in the world that does that.

Well, okay, you caught me.

Yeah, it's reasonably common for damsels to do this, esp. if they
dont have a lot of coral to play in.

I seem to recall that some fish can gain immunity by nibbling at the
tentacles.

>Tom McCain

(Are you the guy that has those shoe stores ?)


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