clowns and hosting?

[demonboy279]

im curious as to what kind of soft corals can host my clown fish?

i have a true perc and an ocellaris. i want an anemone but im open to other things i can get they would host.

and does anyone know what the babies would look like and what they would be? would they be true percula or occelaris or is there something else it would be called?

thanks

 

[L and L]

My false percula hosts my Sarcophyton sp. It's been doing this for 2 years.

I was a little nervous that it might bother or irritate the leather... but, they live in harmony.

My false perculas never did host anything. So, I decided to get a BTA in my reef tank. The same time I put the BTA in... the false percula decided that it would host the leather instead of the BTA. doh!

So, I got two other false perculas and they hosted the BTA. A BTA will split and wander off. It's split went over to my 10" dia birdsnest coral and stung it. RTN! I saved some frags.... but, it killed a bunch of it.

Anything that can walk off on it's own... needs to have careful consideration of where it's placed.

I saw yesterday or a few days ago about a clown fish hosting a feather duster. hehe


Have you read this link?
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=298642

 

[demonboy279]

yes i have read that article. but my tank isnt quite 6 months old or a year. i have a curly cue anemone that came on a rock and its living so i dont see why another wouldnt but thats what everyone here says. so i was looking for something else they can host.

thanks ill check out the Sarcophyton sp.

 

[L and L]

My tomato clown in my 30g is actually hosting a small clump of hair algae. I don't have the heart to take away it's home. =)

But, i wouldn't want to purposely add hair algae in your tank!! lol

 

[demonboy279]

ive got a little bit of hair algae in my tank but my cleanup crew keeps it down pretty well so mine cant host it. thats pretty interesting tho. i never heard of that before lol

 

[Teremei]

My 1 year olds finally started hosting in something. It's a long branchy Speghetti Leather. Half of the day they laze around the branches and snuggle the polyps. The other half they go to their old home. right on the sand near the front glass.

 

[Reefugee]

I have seen clown host the following:

Frogspawn
Torch coral
Hammer
Toad Stool
And of course Anenomes.

Minh

 

[kau_cinta_ku]

mine host shrooms

 

[water`bug]

My male Naked clown will snuggle down in either a Torch, a Red Frogspawn or a Fox Coral!

Good luck!

 

[Alaskan Reefer]

See avatar...

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They'll host in damn near anything, including heaters, powerheads, algae, LPS, xenia, anthelia, leathes, shrooms, just name it...

 

[demonboy279]

thanks alot everyone thats great to know now just to pick one hmmm decisions decisions lol


ill find something

 

[demonboy279]

how about zoos? they look like they might work. any one ever have any experience or opinions on using zooanthis for the clowns to host?

 

[L and L]

I've seen my Flame Hawkfish land on my large button polyps
(protopalythoa vestitus) and they didn't retract. But, I don't
know about them living there.

Here is my Flame hawkfish on my Montipora "orange" digitata.
(yeah, the "dead spot" got zapped by an aiptasia little sucker.
I zapped it w/ kalk and it's no longer there.)

Maybe some time I'll cut and paste some orange digitata over that spot and you'll never know.... Well, you will but nobody else will unless they read this post. muahaha.