Clowns vs BTA

Zeus30

Zeus30

YOU MAD, BRO?!
I've had a BT in my tank for almost 2 weeks and the clowns dont approach it nor does it host them.....:confused:


Any comments or pointers?
 
What kind of clowns? If they are percula or ocellaris clowns, then BTA are not their natural hosts. That said, they will usually end up in the bubble tip eventually. Mine took a year. Then I moved and lost the anemone. I just got a couple more anemones and the clowns are ignoring them.
 
My maroons, which are ONLY found in BTAs in the wild took 6 months to host. My occys, which aren't from the same region as BTAs hosted in 3 days. And my percs within a few hours. Moral is that patience is the key! I do hope yours finally comes around...it's the coolest relationship to see!
 
Thanks everyone. Its not a RBTA which I think is the problem? I have the ocellaris clowns. I made a noob mistake and first bought a condy, now I have this BTA and it hides alot.
 
Are you saying the nem you have now is a condy? They normally don't host, but there always are exceptions.

If you are saying you had a condy, got rid of it, and now have a bta, you will have to share your parameters/age of tank/flow/lighting etc for us to give good advice. A condy will survive nuclear holocaust, whereas a bta is much more sensitive.

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Nope. I first bought a condy nem and it was pretty cool looking but not what I was looking for. I went ahead and bought a bta nem since I read they're pretty compatible with Clowns.

I will do a water test when I get home.
 
I lost my RBTA last year during a move. It was hosting my clowns. I got a small GBTA a few weeks ago and no interest was shown. I got a larger RBTA last week and my clowns just moved in today. It will be interesting to see if they move from anemone to anemone once the GBTA is bigger. I did get a new male recently (again lost that one in the move too) and they were really showing signs of pairing today. So maybe that is what motivated the move into the RBTA.
 
condys will typically eat clowns. Ours did, and then we got rid of it and got a carpet. Typically, any nem will host any clown, some never do, some take months, some take hours. Our percula clown took an immediate liking to the condy, which obviously ended in tragedy (my first purchase, petco had them in the same tank, and the manager said they were fine, then within days, the clown was dinner. Upon research, I found this is common) I've had tons of people say maroons will NOT host in a carpet; ours took less than a week, and she hasn't left the carpet since. We also previously had a pair of ocellaris misbars (which are supposed to be a natural host) and only one of them took to the nem, after about 3 months. So, FME, it's taken anywhere from immediate to a week to several months to never for the clown to host a nem. As well as them hosting what is not a natural host and opinions stating that it "will never happen".

Anyway, just give it time. 2 weeks isn't very long, my LFS said its not uncommon for it to be at least a month. Ive gotten quite some surprise when I say our maroon took less than a week to host in an unnatural host nem, but it happened. :) good luck to you!
 
Some Clowns are so over bread they dont know they should host.I have a pair of tomato clowns that host any and all coral. In fact they just laid there 3rd batch of eggs.I hope these hatch.
 
CoralReeferGal said:
condys will typically eat clowns. Ours did, and then we got rid of it and got a carpet. Typically, any nem will host any clown, some never do, some take months, some take hours. Our percula clown took an immediate liking to the condy, which obviously ended in tragedy (my first purchase, petco had them in the same tank, and the manager said they were fine, then within days, the clown was dinner. Upon research, I found this is common) I've had tons of people say maroons will NOT host in a carpet; ours took less than a week, and she hasn't left the carpet since. We also previously had a pair of ocellaris misbars (which are supposed to be a natural host) and only one of them took to the nem, after about 3 months. So, FME, it's taken anywhere from immediate to a week to several months to never for the clown to host a nem. As well as them hosting what is not a natural host and opinions stating that it "will never happen".

Anyway, just give it time. 2 weeks isn't very long, my LFS said its not uncommon for it to be at least a month. Ive gotten quite some surprise when I say our maroon took less than a week to host in an unnatural host nem, but it happened. :) good luck to you!
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Carpets eat fish too.
 
I have rose Bubble Tip it took 2 1/2 weeks for one of my black ocellaris clowns to get in it. The other still won't go in. I still think think there fighting over there sex.

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