Amphiprion tricinctus and Dascyllus trimaculatus are the species always found in Kwajalein Stichodactyla haddoni, an anemone that comes in a variety of colors and lives in sand and Halimeda patches on the lagoon slope.
Sometimes the fish almost seem to crowd each other out of the anemone.
While most of the bleached anemones survived the 2009 bleaching episode, the white anemone below vanished a short time after this photo was taken.
Usually we see juvenile Amphiprion tricinctus in large S.haddoni anemones. In the two photos below, however, there was a single fairly large A. tricinctus in a juvenile S. haddoni.
Created 1 September 2010
Updated 14 October 2012