Carpet and Ocellaris

[mohd]

I have 2 carpet, Can I keep Ocellaris clownfish with them? becasue the first introducing the fish the tank one of the fish approached to the carpet and the bad thing happened, THE FISH WAS HARMED...BUT STILL ALIVE.

Many times I saw many fish shops keep them with the carpet without any harming. How about the fact? and How to make them apapproachingo the carpet?

 

[Jadran]

Yes, you can keep em with carpet anemones, your experience seems strange but possible.. Clowns are not naturally immune to anemone sting, they need to adapt to their hosts, to develop protection,, If an ocellaris never had any contact with haddoni and swims right in It could easily end up being anemone food same as any other small fish would .. Your fish knows that well, but it is possible that something frightened it (some unsuitable tankmate or so) and poor thing rushed in.

I dont know how to convince em to move in... Just let them be.. sometimes it takes a quite some time for them to decide, but eventually they mostly do..

 

[mohd]

I tell you the fact that I have a breeding farm at the southern of Thaialnd and many times our customer claimed to us that the fish die off after approched animone. In our tank breed fish mostly MISS SPEELING of that word indeed.... ANIMONE..!

 

[rkelman]

My tank bred Ocellaris hosted my carpet in 6 days.. I'm not sure about the whole "they need to build an immunity" thing.. as some clowns dive right in with no problems.. Maybe they were wild caught I dunno. I would just let em be they'll host or not. You can't make them.

 

[mohd]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8680816#post8680816 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by rkelman
My tank bred Ocellaris hosted my carpet in 6 days.. I'm not sure about the whole "they need to build an immunity" thing.. as some clowns dive right in with no problems.. Maybe they were wild caught I dunno. I would just let em be they'll host or not. You can't make them.

I start with a midium size of carpet animone and sandleback clown. but the result was the same as Ocellaris. (Quite serious) but after the second day my carpet die off because the sandleback are too big. ( I mean the size of the host and visiters not matching)

They play with the carpet until they loosen the capacity of attaching to the sand and rock and end up with die off. but this never happened with small clownfish or midium size.