Clownfish possibly hosting anemone?

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Pazzoman

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Hey Guys,

Well here's the story, I have a black and white ocelaris clown fish (cant spell for my life:nilly:), long nose hawk fish, eel,hermit crabs, turban snails, porcupine puffer in a hospital tank fighting ick, also top it off with a Rose Bulb Anemone. You can see it here:

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=321527

Well I've noticed that when I enter the tank to clean, or feed the snow flake eel he swims up to me in a weird aggressive behavior constantly where ever i moved my hands. This never happened, is it by any chance he is thinking that I was gonna remove the anemone? Or is he just being territorial of the entire tank lol. Also in the picture you see the anemone on that selected side of the branch rock, but now he is on the other side of the rock in between the branch tip and the red rock. I don't know if I should remove him, since I can see his abdomen is sticking between the rocks and possibly stuck, on the other hand he probably purposely went to that spot and is comfortable. I asked this because in a few days I will be trying a maroon clown with the anemone.
 
If you are having aggression problems now, just wait till you get that maroon in there. My brother and I had one in a 125g that would react just upon someone walking into the same room as the tank, let alone putting your hand in there. He was a mean lil sob...good thing he was only like 4" :D
 
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