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by **taco99** » July 23rd, 2003, 8:43 pm

As you can see in my avatar, my clown gobie has formed a "relationship" with my elegant coral. He stays within the tentacles of the coral all day. Has anyone else see this before? Is this unusual? (larger picture attached)

by **taco99** » July 23rd, 2003, 8:49 pm

...let me try the attachment again....

by **liquid** » July 24th, 2003, 8:19 am

Very nice!

Shane

by **Reef_Monkey** » July 24th, 2003, 9:37 am

I don't know to much about that, but the picture is beautiful...

by **aliendomain** » July 24th, 2003, 10:11 am

My Bicolor Blenny spends allot of time on top of or next to my elegance. My guess is that elegance does not have as much of a sting as an anemone. Have you seen your gobie feeding the coral? I haven't seen any behavior like this from my Blenny, I'm just curious. Great photo!
AlienDomain

by **taco99** » July 24th, 2003, 11:00 am

It looks to me like the gobie is just hanging out with the coral (shelter). When I feed the tank he seems to eat in the open water. The good news is that the coral seems to be oblivious to the fish. I'm glad you like the photo. I am going to get a tripod soon.

by **aliendomain** » July 24th, 2003, 11:12 am

I need a tripod as well and a better camera, the digital I have is only 1.4 mega pixels.

by **kparton** » July 24th, 2003, 11:13 am

What a great picture, and a very nice coral. How do you like your clown goby? I think they're cute fish, but I've never seen one in a reef tank or anywhere outside of an LFS sales tank with nothing in it but fish.

by **taco99** » July 24th, 2003, 6:45 pm

The clown gobie is a nice fish. He would really get beat up with aggressive fish, I imagine. I have all mellow fish. He is not an aggressive eater at all. When he is not chillin' in the coral he is hanging in some tonga rock (very branchy, like an acropora). He is always in the front of the tank, which I enjoy.

The elegant coral is ding very, but I have only had it about a month. I hope it continues to show shuch nice tissue expansion!

Thanks for the nice comments everyone. I will post some more pictures!

by **4Angel** » July 24th, 2003, 10:03 pm

HAy great shot Its going to make for a great wall paper on my computer
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