any advice on getting clowns to host with anenome?

[vulkum]

i bought a couple of maroon clowns and a green bubble tip the other day and so far they picked a corner behind some rock to sleep at night. the last 2 days one of the clowns has been hovering over my larger crocea clam and making it close and open all the time.
any advice would be cool as i'm not giving up the clams.

 

[mmgm]

Tagging along here.... I just added a beautiful white anenome to my tank that has four clowns..... Thy won't go near it..... and all scramble to hide out on my Rose.....


Would like to know how you can get a clown interested in another anenome..... If possible......

 

[Z-ReefKeeper]

Are the Maroon Clowns Tank Bred? If so they probably will not host the Bubble Tip.

 

[Blazer88]

People also told me my false perc's won't host in my RBTA.....it just took six months before they took notice to it. They decided to dive in last week. I'd just give it some time.

 

[Amphiprion]

BTAs (Entacmaea quadricolor) are a natural host for maroon clowns. They will have the strongest response to these anemones. IME, just give it some time.

 

[Jens Kallmeyer]

HI

If possible, drop some food into or close to the anemone. The food may convince them that this is the right place for them. Worked with my Skunks.

Good luck

Jens

 

[Wolverine]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6944254#post6944254 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Amphiprion
BTAs (Entacmaea quadricolor) are a natural host for maroon clowns. They will have the strongest response to these anemones. IME, just give it some time.

I agree. Just give them time. Some people have found that clownfish are more likely to host if the anemone is already established in the tank when they're added, but I personally don't have a lot of direct experience with trying that.

Dave

 

[larac]

You could try what I did by accident. I put in an RBTA which was ignored by two T Percs for about three weeks. One day while I was cleaning the tank in their area it caused them to swim over to where the RBTA was. The female discovered it. It was pretty funny watching how delighted she was.

I had assumed they were either ignoring it on purpose or did not reconize it (as some say) since it is not their natural host.
However, clowns have a tendancy to stay in one area and not explore. Prior to this mine had hosted a mag float in the top corner of the tank.

 

[JohnK]

Have had two tank-raised Tomato Clowns in a tank with a bubble tip for 2 years.

Got both pretty small...larger one immediately hosted in BTA. Smaller one lived in a Bubble Coral on the opposite side of a 75 gallon tank the whole time.

Had two BTAs for the last 6 months after it split.

Only YESTERDAY did the smaller Tomato suddenly decide to pair up with the larger one in the anemones...the anemones still live next to each other, the smaller one seems to divide its time between being in the other anemone and the same anemone as the larger.

So, clownfish are weird. And indeed as others have said they CAN take a long time to host.