Talk:Hexactinellid

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[edit] cultural references

I removed the following passage as it had been marked as unverified:

In traditional Japanese cultures, this particular animal is given as a wedding gift due to the fact that certain bioluminescent shrimp (arthropoda) tend to form a symbiosis with them. The sponge houses two small shrimp, a male and a female, who live out their lives inside the sponge( they come inside it through ostia--minute pore, feed inside & due to increase in size they can't go out). They breed, and when their offspring are tiny, the offspring escape to find a Venus Flower Basket of their own. thus the shrimps pair live together till death. inspired by this romantic thought Japanese people give venous flower basket as a gift to marriage couple.^{[citation needed]}

If you have a source to corroborate these claims please add the relevant information back to the article. Thanks! Isopropyl (talk) 20:36, 6 December 2007 (UTC)