What other fish associate with anemones?

ThePurple12 · Jun 3, 2020

Besides the clownfish and the domino damsels, are there any fish that associate with anemones?

Reefer Reboot · Jun 3, 2020

One of my Chromis likes to hang out in the Condy Nem.

James M · Jun 3, 2020

Banggai Cardinalfish will hang around anemones sometimes

Hemmdog · Jun 3, 2020

My flame angel likes my rainbow bta more than my clowns. Lol

ThePurple12 · Jun 3, 2020

Hemmdog said:
My flame angel likes my rainbow bta more than my clowns. Lol

Serious?

Hemmdog · Jun 3, 2020

ThePurple12 said:
Serious?

Yeah. It’s very strange lol.

ThePurple12 · Jun 3, 2020

Wow... it seems anemones host more fish than eat.

;Blackeye

bknope · Jun 3, 2020

Hemmdog said:
My flame angel likes my rainbow bta more than my clowns. Lol

Does it actually touch its tentacles??

Hemmdog · Jun 3, 2020

bknope said:
Does it actually touch its tentacles??

Not really, he just hovers right above the nems mouth for a good portion of the day. It’s my only reddish coral/invert in the tank. Maybe that is why.

sprungson · Jun 4, 2020

My cardinal will hang out in my LTA all the time, tentacles touching it and all.

ThRoewer · Jun 4, 2020

I have a baby regal angel who gets extremely close or even hangs out under one of my magifica. He is either confused because he was too long housed only with anemonefish or likes living dangerously...

ThRoewer · Jun 4, 2020

As of fish that really use anemones as hosts - there is at least one Mediterranean/East Atlantic goby species, Gobius bucchichii, that lives in association with the Snakelocks anemone (Anemone viridis).

(from https://reefs.com/2017/11/19/mediteraneans-anemone-fish/#:~:text=Bucchichs, or Anemone Gobies, are,an easy fish to miss.)

And if we expand this to anemone-like corals like Heliofungia actiniformis then there are pipefish (Siokunichthys nigrolineatus - Mushroom pipefish) who use those as hosts: