any tricks to get tank raised clowns to host?

ahullsb

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I have a rbta, and finally found a juvenile pair of black and white ocellaris clowns. I had a feeling it would be just TOO easy if they found the anem right away. It's just my luck. Is there anything I can do to coax them into using it? someone suggested dropping a wild caught clown that hosts to teach them...any suggestions would be greatly appreciated
 
adding the wild clown wont help and is a bad idea.

ocellaris do not naturally host BTA so its luck and time that will get them to host there are no real easy ways to get them to host

putting the anemone near where they hang out will help also give them time
 
Some people suggest using a laser pointer and point it at the anemone. The clowns might get attracted to the light and follow it into the anemone.
Just a thought.
 
Just got my pair of Black Ocellaris hosting in my RBTA yesterday (Friday). I had it in a empty quaratine tank for 1 week.

Here's my tough love method that has work for me:

With the tank lights off, I put the smallest of the 2 into main tank with RBTA. I use a stick to herd it toward the RBTA. Whenever it wanders off to the tank corners, I use the stick to push it back into the RBTA.

After a couple of hours, it seems to get the idea and stay within the area of the RBTA. After a while, it began to touch the RBTA and the next night, it was staying around the RBTA without any push from me. Next night, lights out, I also put the larger/female into main tank with smaller male. It went straight to the male and
they both start rubbing against the RBTA. Wahlaaa...hosting clowns.

2 things that I think made it work for me:
I have a large blue tang and a large yellow tang, the clowns are pretty scare of these guys.

I wasn't afraid to scare the heck out of my small clown, scare him enough to make him seek shelter.

Both of these were ORA tank raise.

Beng
 
Here's a couple of pics:

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I am happy to report that when I came downstairs this morning, both my clowns were hosting the anemone! My only tactic was to feed them near the anem, and when the lights went out, I would take my stick and gently nudge them out of the corner towards the center of the tank. (that is where the anem is) After a week of doing that they would get closer to it at night, until this morning when the mission was accomplished. I will post pics when i get home. Thanks again for everyone's help!
 
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