Anemone shrimps are fascinating additions to an aquarium dedicated to a carpet anemone but should be used instead of the more clownfish rather than.
Clownfish and carpet anemone.
Haddoni hosts amphiprion akindynos a.
They would simply be picked off by a predator as they would have no place to hide.
There s just something about the symbiosis of it.
This species of carpet anemone can eat fish in the display aquarium so use caution when housing a carpet anemone in with fish other than clownfish.
Amphiprion perideraion pink skunk is a commonly available clownfish but i find it not to be very popular with most hobbyists.
In their natural habitats clownfish and anemones have a symbiotic relationship.
The anemones true percula clownfish are normally associated with in the sea are the sebae heteractis crispa ritteri heteractis magnifica and giant carpet stichodactyla gigantea.
Watching a clownfish seemingly playing in its anemone host is one of the most magical things that can happen in our aquariums.
1 different types of clownfish tend to prefer living with or hosting different types of anemones.
When healthy this anemone is very sticky to the touch and when they grasp something or someone it is very difficult to convince it to let go without damaging the animal.
Periclemenes anemone shrimps are infrequently traded but interesting tankmates that live in a symbiotic relationship with carpet anemones presumably for protection.
They are small shrimps getting to about 1 25 2 5 inches 3 6 cm in length.
In nature a clownfish cannot survive without a host anemone.
Both need the other to survive.