Aquacultured clowns and anemones

[zbrook1]

This might sound like a stupid question..Does anyone have experience with aquacultured clowns hosting anemones? Will the clowns take to the anemone?

 

[zooman72]

Most of us have "aquacultured" (i.e. captive-bred) clownfish (a.k.a. anemonefish) being hosted by our anemones (anemones host clownfish, not the reverse), since so few of us are keeping wild-caught clownfish.

Some species are more apt to seek out an anemone than others (A. clarkii and A. frenatus for example), but most do eventually.

 

[davocean]

The instinct for wanting a host is still very much there, but for fastest/best results they should be matched to the nem species they would be found in in the wild.