xokarmaxo
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The percula that we have at work is in LOVE with the bta that was added to the tank last Wednesday, hosted it almost immediately. She is in and out of it all day, almost "drunk" on the "high" of having its own anemone, kind of like
how a cat is around catnip. She is very content. She keeps nipping at and seems to be "suckling" on the anemone's tentacles and disc, acting kind of agressive when she does it. She goes in and out of the tentacles and sometimes it seems like she is "smothering" it with so much "attention". During the PM feeding, she ate and then swam right back to the anemone who was starting to swell in the middle.... she started nipping at this "swelling".... I think the swelling was caused by the anemone about to poop because the brown stringy stuff started coming out, and the perc was (and I know that this is gross, but) pulling the poop out of it and eating it. Then the anemone started deflating and closed all the way up. The perc didn't like this one bit and kept sticking its head in the middle (hole) and nipping at it, like it was trying to make it open up again. I'm sure that it was aggravating the anemone.
My question is this.... can this kind of behavior actually kill an anemone?? Is this normal, what she is doing to the bta?
I don't have any pics of her nipping at the bta, but here are some others.
how a cat is around catnip. She is very content. She keeps nipping at and seems to be "suckling" on the anemone's tentacles and disc, acting kind of agressive when she does it. She goes in and out of the tentacles and sometimes it seems like she is "smothering" it with so much "attention". During the PM feeding, she ate and then swam right back to the anemone who was starting to swell in the middle.... she started nipping at this "swelling".... I think the swelling was caused by the anemone about to poop because the brown stringy stuff started coming out, and the perc was (and I know that this is gross, but) pulling the poop out of it and eating it. Then the anemone started deflating and closed all the way up. The perc didn't like this one bit and kept sticking its head in the middle (hole) and nipping at it, like it was trying to make it open up again. I'm sure that it was aggravating the anemone.
My question is this.... can this kind of behavior actually kill an anemone?? Is this normal, what she is doing to the bta?
I don't have any pics of her nipping at the bta, but here are some others.
