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   ocr: EARTH ALMANAC Symbiotic Duo Share Food and Fertilizer Unaffected by potentially debil- itating stings, an inch-long spotted memone shrimp creeps among - guant sea anemone's tentacles. Shrimp and anemone live ymbiotically in the West Indies. The shrimp may feed on mucus from the anémone's ten- - tacles and perhaps also gains protecnon from humngry fish. But what is the: anemone's benetit? Stephen Spotte of the Univer sity of Connecticuts Marine Sciences and Technology Center recently found an answer. Anemones ger energy from single-celled plants within their tissues called zooxanthellae. The pl ...