Forgive The Strange Question, But..

[RyoTHC]

In the wild, do anthias have a natural crab/shrimp they turn to, to have parasites, or anything of the sort picked off of them?

The reason i'm asking, is because once the day lights go out and the crabs start moving around, I frequently see my purple queen anthias "forcing" itself upon the crabs as they are feeding, to the point where the crabs will snap at it in annoyance, but soon after the anthias returns pestering it and pushing up against it..

fish otherwise seems healthy, eats a tonne, active constantly... though it does occasionally sleep in sand bed level cave under some live rock with one of the emerald crabs..

He pesters all my porcelain crabs and both my emeralds...

Any ideas why?

 

[Poseidon]

maybe its a twisted love affair?? haha
i dont have any valuable insight sorry

 

[Pistol]

normally the job of the cleaner shrimp or cleaner wrasse

 

[RyoTHC]

While I know the cleaner wrasse and shrimp have symbiotic relationship with fish, what would drive it to take it's chances with a crab that could kill and eat it? Though funnily enough they happily much away at algae and only shoo him away, he is active alert and eats lots, I guess I'll just chalk it up to that's what they want to do, and if he ends up dinner for a crab, it's the fishes fault lol