wrasse hosting anemone?

runn3rb3an

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I have had my anemone and a maroon bar clown pair since december but one of the pair recently died. Now all of a sudden my lunare wrasse is swimming through the anemone and digging underneath it and resting it its tentacles and always trying to find a way into it. I would think that it would get stung but I guess that dosent stop it. Does this sound like a normal thing or do I have a "special" wrasse? haha thanks in advance.
 

jennln

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Funny to read this...I too have a lunare wrasse that won't leave my condy alone....and neither the condy or the maroon that has claimed it seems to mind. What blows my mind the most is that I didn't think a condy was a hosting anemone at all, but my maroon and the condy have been a pair since day one. When the lunare wrasse was added, it seemed interested in the anemone but never went too close until about 2 weeks later. Now it plays in the anemone all the time and sleeps underneath the anemone (body is visible laying in the sand right beneath the anemone's tentacles). The anemone is healthy and the wrasse is doing great - no sting marks on the wrasse either. This behavior has been going on for at least a month now if not longer with no apparent "side effects" of either animal. I tried to get some pictures to post to this thread...lights are out in the tank right now though and the wrasse is trying to go to bed. First pic is with the flash which kind of spooked the fish so the rest are with no flash - unfortunately that makes for crappy pictures, but you should get the basic idea.
I'm really curious to know now if I should be concerned about something wrong with one of these two now.



 
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