Clowns vs Frogspawn

[ReefJunkie21]

Ok so I have notice that my false percs don’t go near my nem for some reason but have decided to use my frogspawn as their home. How do I get them to change their minds? I have tried moving the frogspawn around, but no luck they just fellow it, the female will actually come up and bite me when I get near it. And because she keeps fanning the frogspawn I think she's hurting it. I have not seen it open for the past few days.
Help..!! I can I get them to host the nem and not my frogspawn?

 

[NanoReefWanabe]

fanning the frog is her way of cleaning it (for laying eggs)...are the clowns mated?

not sure how to keep her away from it though, but they dont generally hurt the coral...unless they are biting or rubbing it really hard...they are just going to irritate it for a bit...

couple things will happen...the coral will get used to it (most likely)
the coral will recede and hide for a while in hope the clowns will move on...or the clowns will just move on when they find the nem...

my assumptions are that they are occellaris clowns and a BTA? if so the BTA is not a natural host and it could take the clowns some time to find it and recognize it..

 

[ScooterBlenny]

Clowns can definitely kill corals - mine took a liking to my open brain and loved it to death. I don't know of a way to make them host what you want them to, though, it seems to be hit-and-miss.

 

[hoosierpat]

If the coral is closed now it most likely will not do well if the clown continue to badger it. Try putting some holes in a tupperware container so that water is still able to flow through it and then placing that over the frogspawn so that they can't get to it. makes sure that the holes aren't big enough for the clowns to get through.

 

[Henryreef]

That sounds like a good suggestion, but you may have to suffer a couple bite wounds

 

[ReefJunkie21]

Thanks for the replies. I did the tupper ware trick today and about 45mins later the frogspawn started to open-up 1.5hrs later she up and in full bloom.
Although I have repossessed their home, I removed the BTA and will be picking up a H. magnifica tomorrow, so hopefully they will take to they’re new home and peacefully move out of this one.



They're just like bad renters; always leave things a huge mess!