Clowns hosting rock instead of anemone...

[reefman13]

I bought a RBTA about 2 weeks ago and I feed her almost every other day, and every day she is forming more tentacles.

She sits right in the middle of the display, with the much stronger water flown and light. However, I have a pair of O.clowns that seem to be hosting a small cave in one of the pieces of LR. Now I know the anemone won't want to go down there, but I am trying to figure out a way to disturb their current home, so they would need to establish a new territory, and in doing so they will find the anemone.

Few questions:
1. What can I do/use to disturb their area?
2. How long does it take on average for a pair of clowns to recognize and anemone?

Thanks in advance.

Dave

 

[Reefynewby]

i know i'm very inexperienced in this field, seeing as i'm probably much newer to this than you, but IME, i've found that i can just move the anemone's rock directly in front of my clowns for a few minutes until they investigate it. From then, they begin hosting it immediately, and i can SLOWLY move the anemone back where i want it, and the clowns follow, or leave and come back later. This is all in my Humble experience tho, so don't feel like this is the only way to do it.

 

[reefman13]

Well, at this point it may have been the best idea I have heard!

Thanks, I will give it a try.

 

[Reefynewby]

No problem, just make sure the clowns have enough time to get used to it. Be careful with ur nem and good luck

 

[ReefGirlSara]

My clowns do the same thing, I started a thread a few days ago about them sleeping at the top pf the tank and we were talking about them hosting the wrong things in that thread too.

I don't have an answer for you, my clowns still haven't quite figured it out, but at least now they are hosting the rock that the anemone is attached to. Maybe they will eventually turn the corner and start hosting the GBTA.

Good luck!!

 

[ReefGirlSara]

P.S. Anyone that knows about GBTA's, do you think mine pictured above is ok? The first pic was about a week ago, and the second pic was from tonight. I know they change a lot, but it looks a lot lighter in color too...

I have been feeding it one lance fish a week.

 

[Reefynewby]

sara, IMHO your GBTA looks very bleached to me. GBTA's are usually a dark green-brown, not light light green. You should try upping lighting, and possibly feeding. I've been rescuing my BTA, as it got bleached at one point, and i feed it every day to other day about 1 inch chunks of shrimp and it had lost the ability to sting, but now has it back (amazing.) does yours grab the food from you when you feed it?