Clown fish not enjoying the anemone

[Atrain6464]

I have a pair of snow clown what kind of anemone should I get for them

 

[CoralReeferGal]

THIS is the only constant...that every fish is an individual, and must be examined as such. My occys took to their BTA within hours, but my maroons associated with their BTA in no less than 6 months. Maroons are only found in BTAs in the wild, while occys are rarely found in BTAs.

Just like the occasional clown trigger that is well behaved or lemon peel that doesn't nip, there will always be exceptions to any hard and fast rule.

Exactly. Where as my occys never took their nem, but my WC maroon was in a carpet within a week, and once we traded it for a BTA, she was in there before we had our hand out of the tank from placing it.

 

[OrionN]

Natural host for you A. ocellaris are H. magnifica, S. gigantea and S. mertensii. All three are not anemone for beginner or even most reefers. If you can keep one of the tree, you clowns will most likely be in them in a day or two regardless of being tank raise or wild caught. Merten carpet are difficult to find and is the largest of all host anemone and not recommended. Magnifica or Gigantea will need a very specialized tank to do well and also not recommended.
I hav ehad luck with keeping Ocellaris in S. haddoni (Haddoni carpet) H. malu and H. crispa. They take a variety amount of time to go into the above anemones but will eventually, especially when you clean the tank or poke your hand in the tank for some reason or other. The fish will feel threaten and will go into the anemone then and will not leave.

Clown fish will do just fine without an anemone in our tank. I would not get an anemone unless you research first about what it need and make sure you can provide for it.

 

[dc]

and I respect that opinion... but #1, does that mean MY experience holds no value? #2, I was asked for sources siting it, which is what I gave. Also stated that it seems to overall be luck of the draw with each individual clown fish. It's experience vs experience, neither one of us wrong here, just offering what we have seen.

Your personal experience yes. An article off the internet, not so much.

All of my captive bred clowns have hosted my BTA's. Some took longer than others. I have no experiece with WC clowns

 

[kevinrf]

I got my 2 bta's a month or so ago. Had two black & white clowns from the beginning that could of cared less. Unfortunately, my one clown went carpet surfing 2 weeks ago. I bought a extreme snowflake & after about a 2 weeks, last night he started to host the BTA!

 

[garygb]

From my experience, captive bred makes absolutely no difference. When given a natural host, captive bred clowns that had never been kept with an anemone were in the anemone within a few minutes. This has been the case with percs and ocellaris in my mags and also maroons in my BTAs.

 

[ReeferKimberly]

My captive bred tomato hosted in 1 day in a RBTA which is a natural host to them in the wild.

To the OP, I would try a different type of nem. Probably a RBTA. Or just wait, they probably will eventually anyways.

 

[Dapg8gt]

I agree that its instinctual. My clowns are all TR and my 8 month old true Perc's that I got at about 3/4" were in my RBTA right after the first swipe of it.it seemed as if once they touched it they knew and it literally took about an hour of them being in my frag tank. I know for a fact that they had never seen an anemone because a friend of mine bred them ,In fact the parents actually never had a nem as a host they have a fuzzy mushroom as a host. My 12 year old false Perc's will aggressively host anything with tentacles LOL.

 

[Rapide]

I had ocellaris and percula pairs. They didn't show any interest to BTAs or haddoni, but my frenatus pair loved the BTAs and sarcophytons.
I recently got a polymnus pair, and now I'm waiting if the haddonis I have will host them...
BTW a fish doesn't host an anemone, but an anemone does host a fish