Hmmm

[Jilly92]

That clownfish looks more scared than sleepy to me! May have "gotten out" … but curious IF it ever returns!

I believe the original poster said it's a normal behavior for him to do that often, idk

 

[Sleeping Giant]

Hmm I know nothing about photoshop. Some people go to great lengths for likes haha

They sure do

 

[Azedenkae]

It's not normal behavior for a fish to sleep in the mouth of a predator. And if so, it's probably sick and suicidal.

Yeah but it's not normal for fish to sleep within the toxic tentacles of a predator either, and clownfish do that too.

What I am saying is, it may not be something one'd often see, but if it would make sense for any fish, it'd be clownfish. They are weird, after all.

 

[Jilly92]

Yeah but it's not normal for fish to sleep within the toxic tentacles of a predator either, and clownfish do that too.

What I am saying is, it may not be something one'd often see, but if it would make sense for any fish, it'd be clownfish. They are weird, after all.

It is normal for a clown to do that. An anemone has a symbiotic relationship with a clown, its not a predator to the clown. The fenestrafer mushroom is.

 

[Azedenkae]

It is normal for a clown to do that. An anemone has a symbiotic relationship with a clown, its not a predator to the clown. The fenestrafer mushroom is.

So how do you know that a fenestrafer mushroom is a natural predator of a clown?

How did we even ever know bubble tip anemones can host ocellaris clownfish? They're not natural hosts of ocellaris for example, but we eventually came to the conclusion that they're fine together from just a lot of cases where they were fine together.

So unless you know for certain that this is a specific predator of clownfish, rather than just fish in general, I don't think there's much to argue about here. I mean, clownfish on the hand seems to be stung by at least some types of corals too, corals considered 'fish safe' so... we have that as well.