Clown and Anemone questions

[jarrod1]

I have had a pair of true percs for sometime now and I finally got gbta to host them. Whe I put him in my 75 gallon/w 2 175 mh sump refuge the female was the only one who would host the gbta. I decided last week to do a minor rescape project but for the most part left anemone and rock in same place as before. Now my female will only host in early morning befor lights come on. Any thoughts apreciated.

 

[jarrod1]

I need to ad that the reason I had to rescape was because I had a domino damsel that I had to remove from the tank because he too made his home in the gbta. Darn Damsels! He would run my clowns out of gbta. He is safe in a smaller tank now and I want my clowns to host. When lights come on they tend to move to another part of the tank where they usually don't hang out. Help?

 

[magdelan]

Won't damsels get stung??

 

[keefsama2003]

Clownfish are damsels and most damsels do host anemones at younger ages but when they get older they tend to stop.

 

[jarrod1]

Thanks guys

Thanks guys

Thanks for the replies, but still looking for some Idea why clowns dont seem to have much interest in gbta. paremiters good, nothing out of ordinary. It is almost like the clown are mad because there are no damsels there to run them off.

 

[keefsama2003]

just the fish.

there is no answer why they wont host. some clowns will some wont.
some will host for a while then stop and never host again some never host or dont host for months on end then 1 day they do

 

[jarrod1]

update

update

female clown playing in gbta. we will see what happens when mh's come on. thanks again for replies.....

 

[keefsama2003]

NP just give them time. if they hosted before they will again.

i have a pair of ocellaris in my tank they are W/C from australia at least thats what they were sold to me as and they were hosting before but i dont have an anemone in my tank

eventually i will once i get my lights back up and we will see. before these i had a pair of clarkii that hosted a carpet before the carpet hit the sand bed they were in it and i had a pair of ocellaris that in 2 years hosted my power head so ...