Banggai Cardinal hosting xenia

[eraserhead187]

Anyone ever have a Cardinal host a coral? This guy does not move from this spot except to eat. It's really cute.

 

[Auquanut]

Do you have more than one? Could be he's claiming a spot to spit out fry when the time comes. My male does that with a large colony of rainbow star polyp at breeding time.

 

[eraserhead187]

Do you have more than one? Could be he's claiming a spot to spit out fry when the time comes. My male does that with a large colony of rainbow star polyp at breeding time.

Nope, just the one little guy. I wish though, baby Cardinals are awesome looking.

 

[James M]

The often go in anemones too

 

[kyleinpdx]

The fish is the guest, the other organism is the host. If I go to a party at someone else’s house, I’m not the host. Same applies here.

 

[eraserhead187]

The often go in anemones too

I have some RBTA in this tank too, and before t he xenia got huge he did like to hover right above them. The clowns don't host the darn things so why not I guess.

 

[eraserhead187]

The fish is the guest, the other organism is the host. If I go to a party at someone else’s house, I’m not the host. Same applies here.

Yeah yeah, I know. It's semantics, just used to saying it that way.

 

[Auquanut]

The fish is the guest, the other organism is the host. If I go to a party at someone else’s house, I’m not the host. Same applies here.

Well technically, the other organism is just the "host" if it's happy with the arrangement. Otherwise, the fish is an interloper, and the other organism just has to deal with it. I had a yellow maroon clown that took up residence in a bubble coral. The coral was not at all pleased with the guest.