saltyunderground
In Memoriam
A few weeks ago I asked in a RC thread what types of anemones your ocellaris clowns are hosting in. My hope was that a few people would say a RBTA even though that is not the natural anemone host for these fish. Right after that I ordered a pair of black and white ocellaris clown babies. McBeck has been keeping them in her 24g nano until my new display was ready.
She had a great idea to get the clowns to host in my RBTA. She had a few small terra cotta flower pots in the nano for the babies to host in. Since the pots look a little like a RBTA, she hoped that the babies would take to the anemone once they came to my tank.
I brought the babies home yesterday. I placed the small flower pot under the anemone. I released the clowns into the tank right next to their flower pot, where they stayed the first half of the day.
By the end of the day the clowns were swimming into the anemone above their pot. This morning I removed the flower pot and the clowns are staying in the anemone.
How often does a plan like this actually work? But Becky's great idea worked just as planned. Now I hope they will stay in the anemone when the frogspawn, xenia and other corals go into the tank.
She had a great idea to get the clowns to host in my RBTA. She had a few small terra cotta flower pots in the nano for the babies to host in. Since the pots look a little like a RBTA, she hoped that the babies would take to the anemone once they came to my tank.
I brought the babies home yesterday. I placed the small flower pot under the anemone. I released the clowns into the tank right next to their flower pot, where they stayed the first half of the day.
By the end of the day the clowns were swimming into the anemone above their pot. This morning I removed the flower pot and the clowns are staying in the anemone.
How often does a plan like this actually work? But Becky's great idea worked just as planned. Now I hope they will stay in the anemone when the frogspawn, xenia and other corals go into the tank.
