Best clown for hosting toadstool...

[Zucker26]

I would absolutely love to purchase a BTA with a bonded pair of clowns, but my 29gal doesn't have a lot of room left for a BTA (and frankly anemones intimidate me). I do have a very nice sized toadstool leather, and a medium sized frogspawn, however.

Is there a specific species of clownfish that would be most likely to accept a toadstool or frogspawn as a host? I had a tank-raised ocelaris that obviously showed no interest. Would I have a better chance with a tomato, skunk, maroon, etc? Or do small, inexpensive, hearty BTA's exist?

 

[snommisbor]

These are my Ocellaris Clowns

 

[Zucker26]

Snommisbor, those clowns look great! And great pictures!! Are they tank-raised or live-caught? How long did it take them to accept the toadstool as their host?

I had an ocellaris for over a year and he never showed any interest. Last week I found him stuck to my main overflow strainer, so I want to replace him with a pair that will hopefully host my toadstool or frogspawn.

 

[snommisbor]

They are tank raised. I just added the male about 6 weeks ago. Had the female for 2 1/2 years but she started hosting some last summer but now they seem to stay there more now that they have paired up.

 

[Ophidia]

My pair of WC true percs live in my toadstool. They totally ignore the RBTA's in the tank.