Unlikely friendships.

tyler1503 · Jul 25, 2014

I saw a book with the same title about all these animals who are friends with after species. There was an antelope and a tiger, a dog and a pig, a cat and a goose etc.
Has anyone here got something like this going on in their tank?

coralfish keeper · Jul 25, 2014

yes i have a demon goby and a clown fish that are stuck like glue

fishroomlady · Jul 25, 2014

well, we must see a pic of that!

footballdude2k3 · Jul 25, 2014

In an old tank, I had a yellow tang that would swim around with a pair of picasso clowns, they were never more than 6" apart, then an ex dumped bleach into the tank and wiped out everything, pretty much the worst experience of muh life

tyler1503 · Jul 25, 2014

fishroomlady said:
well, we must see a pic of that!

Agreed!
Pics or it didn't happen

becca10 · Jul 25, 2014

I have a Niger Trigger and a Snowflake Eel that sleep together at night. Sorry for the bad pic but it's what I could get. Couldn't believe they were snuggled up!

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Daniel@R2R · Jul 26, 2014

Bump! Cool thread!

AquariGod · Dec 4, 2014

footballdude2k3 said:
In an old tank, I had a yellow tang that would swim around with a pair of picasso clowns, they were never more than 6" apart, then an ex dumped bleach into the tank and wiped out everything, pretty much the worst experience of muh life

Oh **** no. I would be infuriated lol

tyler1503 · Dec 4, 2014

I forgot about this thread! My lfs has two volatins that cuddle up together. I'll try to get a pic

fishroomlady · Dec 4, 2014

great bump! I thought this thread was going to be very cool

saltyphish · Dec 4, 2014

Nice thread

Azox · Dec 5, 2014

not in my tank, but often diving I've seen Mappa Puffers with Trumpet fish. At least 20 times, all over the Indo Pacific. No one has ever been able to explain why to me. At Sipadan there was a dog-tooth tuna, a turtle, and I can't remember what that were going everywhere together. It was kind of awesome

Kworker · Dec 5, 2014

Azox said:
not in my tank, but often diving I've seen Mappa Puffers with Trumpet fish. At least 20 times, all over the Indo Pacific. No one has ever been able to explain why to me. At Sipadan there was a dog-tooth tuna, a turtle, and I can't remember what that were going everywhere together. It was kind of awesome

"Divers often see a trumpetfish closely following or hovering over a decoy fish such as a parrotfish. This is yet another clever trick designed to fool a prey fish or shrimp into venturing too close to a marine inhabitant that normally poses no risk to them. Trumpetfishes hunt both day and night, but have the greatest success at dusk, dawn, and twilight."

I did a quick google search

Sully · Dec 5, 2014

I have a bicolor blennie and two Wyoming white's that think they are some kind of trio. His perch seems to be very close to where ever their hangout is at any given time.

tyler1503 · Dec 5, 2014

tyler1503 said:
I forgot about this thread! My lfs has two volatins that cuddle up together. I'll try to get a pic

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Z06-Hec · Dec 5, 2014

My Baby hippo tang thinks hes one of my Wyoming White clowns... So he is constantly on their aces... the female gets annoyed sometimes and butts him and tries to chase him away but he doesn't care he stays with them all the time.
Most of the time they are used to it and just allow it.
Butting or not, he never leaves their side.

reefaboo · Dec 5, 2014

Z06-Hec said:
My Baby hippo tang thinks hes one of my Wyoming White clowns... So he is constantly on their aces... the female gets annoyed sometimes and butts him and tries to chase him away but he doesn't care he stays with them all the time.
Most of the time they are used to it and just allow it.
Butting or not, he never leaves their side.

Mine did the same thing, went a step further and tried to host a frogspawn like the clowns and got stung badly ( I could see black marks) and after a couple of days it was never in that area again.

Z06-Hec · Dec 5, 2014

LOL Fortunately for me, my clowns dont try to host in anything...
I have 3 Bubble nems, frogs, hammers, torches... nothing... They live by a rock and dont move... Fools they are.
and little Dori... Squeezes her self into little cracks of that rock.
She is growing though so I would like to see what she will try to do when she doesn't fit anymore.

I went to a private dealer's house one time and saw he had a big hippo that insisted on going into the doorway of his fake castle... It barely fit in there but still was peeking through...

cheezybuda · Dec 5, 2014

I had a kole tang that was BFF with my female clarkii. I thought that was pretty crazy considering she was hosting a bta and was part of a spawning pair.

Kfox93 · May 3, 2017

I know this is an old thread, but I just came across this. It would be awesome to get this going again.

My yellow tang will not leave my baby puffers side.