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Simmy
12-31-2013, 04:47 AM
So I recently got a watchman goby and he's taken refuge next to a hammer coral. How come the hammer doesn't sting the goby? My other fish avoid swimming into it but this guy goes into it when he gets startled.
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The Grizz
12-31-2013, 04:55 AM
I have had clowns host in a large hammer coral I once had, didn't hurt him a bit.

duncangweller
12-31-2013, 04:56 AM
I have a fairy wrasse that sleeps in one at night and he seems fine too

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Magickiwi
12-31-2013, 02:17 PM
I've got a torch coral that spreads out about 12-16" in diameter and pretty well all my fish swim around, through and in the tents. My six-line wrasse especially loves swimming in the branches of the torch.

SeaHorse_Fanatic
12-31-2013, 04:51 PM
Paul,

I think you're thinking more of anemones, rather than corals.

wreck
12-31-2013, 05:45 PM
My clowns sleep in hammer. Even though they have a rbta right beside it loll smh.