共生关系是这个爱好最有趣的方面。珊瑚礁是房地产的战场;但是，完全不同的动物之间的合作仍然存在惊人的例子。每个人都非常熟悉小丑鱼和银色，并有充分的理由！这种组合可能负责将更多人吸引到业余爱好而不是其他任何事情。然而，这篇文章看起来不那么常见的伙伴关系。
寄居蟹和珊瑚
Hermit crabs of the genusPaguritta.are definitely oddballs. When aquarists typically imagine a hermit crab, it’s a crab living in a shell and motoring around the tank looking for algae and bits of food to scavenge. However, these little guys live in colonies ofastreopora并在他们的洞穴里度过整个生活。说过，当他们从不同地区收集时，我在其他珊瑚中见过他们。例如，视频中的黄色螃蟹来自澳大利亚，但我看到了斐济的蓝色居住Platygyra.。
当这些隐士螃蟹首先进入礁石水族馆的场景时，真的没有关心的指导，所以我们不得不尽力让他们活着。我们发现它们主要过滤饲料，似乎真的非常喜欢诸如轮虫等小肉类食品。他们似乎以什重喂养更好地做得更好，但重要的是不要过度喂养和污染坦克，因为他们消耗的食物不太可能被鱼或其他居民迅速消耗。
性感的虾和迷你地毯银莲花属
实际上有许多类型的虾可以与两枚珊瑚和两种珊瑚一起发展共生关系银音, but the sexy shrimp are my personal favorites because they are not nearly as reclusive as some of the other inverts. That is actually one of the things that kept some really cool symbiotic relationships off my list. Boxer crabs, for example, hold a small anemone in each claw, but these critters often hide so much that I never can get a shot of them. It’s hard for them to make my favorite list when I never see them!
关于海葵和虾配对的另一个好事是它们很容易照顾。银座本身非常艰难，不要像其他其他类型的海葵一样移动泡沫提示, which are likely to run laps around your tank. The shrimp are active and can take care of themselves, so you don’t have to go out of your way to feed them.
性感的虾将在任何数量的事情上举办任何东西，而不仅仅是地毯的天使。
BISMA蠕虫岩石
这些羽毛灭菌蠕虫是色彩缤纷的，在珊瑚菌群内部变化，如诗篇and西瓜。These worms bring a lot of interest and motion to what would otherwise be a motionless coral. As you can probably guess, they are filter feeders. I often get asked if they reproduce and increase in number over time. Unfortunately I don’t have a good answer. I can tell that the tubes grow in lengthen over time, but I can’t tell whether the individual count goes up.
Walking Dendros
Sticking with the worm theme, the walking “Dendro” is a really subtle oddball. I have to put Dendro in quotes because this coral is not aDendrophylliaat all. It’s actually a photosynthetic coral called aHeteropsammia。让它变得有趣的是，它是一个宿主到一个生活在其基地的花生蠕虫。不幸的是，花生蠕虫是超级隐性的，而且不太可能公开看到。尽管蠕虫羞怯地，与珊瑚的互动是有趣的，因为它拖着珊瑚基质用它。每天，您可以预期这种珊瑚在基板上的不同位置，因为花生蠕虫围绕着围绕着。
Although the coral is photosynthetic and can get most of its nutrition from light, the walking Dendro is a capable predator and can gobble up food if offered either meaty frozen foods or coral pellet food.
Yasha Goby和Pistol虾
这个名单上的最后一个奇怪的共生关系是伙伴关系Yasha Gobyand a pistol shrimp. I love that the fish acts as a lookout for the shrimp that is nearly blind while the shrimp tends to a burrow it makes for both of them. The shrimp almost always has one antennae on the goby as a means of communication.
我也喜欢他们如何匹配红色和白色条纹。在这个爱好中，任何一个是一个醒目的红色和白色并不是特别普遍。在我的头顶，我只能想到另外两件事 - 一个薄荷博迪亚斯hogfish and a peppermint angel, which is almost never seen in the hobby.
起初这两个是超级隐性的，但随着时间的推移，鱼出来了越来越多，现在几乎一直都是出来的。虾并没有太大，但如果你耐心，它会偶尔出现。
你最喜欢的古怪共生关系是什么？
As I mentioned, symbiotic relationships are among the most interesting aspects of our hobby. Now you know my personal favorite oddball examples. What are yours?
