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Posted by olddog on January 19, 2009, 6:17 pm
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>> What in the hell is it clown fish love so much about open brain coral? I
>> have 2 clowns that fight for hours and hours over certain positions in
>> front of it.
>> They killed my anemone with their constant pestering.
>> Is it a chemical the coral releases?
>
> Clowns desperately want a protective home. In the while, a clown in the
> open ocean gets eaten.
>
> In the wild, clowns host in (some) sea anemones. If you don't provide
> that
> in your aquarium, then the clowns might find some close substitute
> instead.
>
> There's nothing special about open brain corals, for clowns, except that
> the clowns want a home with toxic chemical defenses, in order to keep away
> predator fish that prey on the clowns. And open brain is a lot better
> than
> nothing.
>
> -- Don
> _______________________________________________________________________________
> Don Geddis don@geddis.org
> http://reef.geddis.org/
> A Christian is a man who feels
> Repentant on a Sunday
> For what he did on Saturday
> And will do again on Monday.
thanks don. they have a good home here. i've had them for over a year now in
a very healthy tank.
od
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> have 2 clowns that fight for hours and hours over certain positions in
> front of it.
> They killed my anemone with their constant pestering.
> Is it a chemical the coral releases?