common clown with small bta

[foxngn]

Hi All,

Would like to get some opinion from you.
Recently I had purchase a small bta,size around 2inches if is expand it should be staying around near 3inches.
Currently I kept it inside isolated box & feed it once every 4 - 5 days.

My question here is, I had a pair of common clownfish, with the largest one around 5 inches.
Should i be release my bta into the tank? I'm a bit concern will the clownfish be too large for the anemone & it could bring harm to it.
OR
I just kept the bta inside the isolated box until certain size before release it.

Thanks

 

[jmareef1022]

I say feed him for a month or two, let it get bigger then release. He seems a bit small right now for a pair, in the mean time maybe get them a pot. GL Jose

 

[foxngn]

Alright noted.
Will continue the feeding, as for the clown, they already host a space.

 

[manilaboy1vic]

i kept feeding a bta and it split into two.. fyi.. maybe feed once a week.

 

[davocean]

Agree, overfeeding can stress and induce a split, I'd keep feedings small like mysis, twice a week.

Your anemone should be about 3-4x the size of clowns really, if not an overly lovy clown can be too much for it.

Common clown, guessing that would be ocellaris or percula, (this is good to know really) and BTA is not really what either are used to, so it might not even bother it for a while, hard to say, usually unnatural host matches take longer.

 

[foxngn]

alright, I'll change the schedule to minimum feeding. Currently I only feed them NLS/brine.

My clown would be ocellaris. long ago they did host BTA as well.
But at the end my BTA decided to hide inside hole & die.

 

[manilaboy1vic]

i have a maroon clown.. which is kinda big.. it has a GBTA home (4 of them). when i put my small RBTA in there he would try to host beat that thing pretty much.. but the RBTA is okay still..

heck my maroon would bite pieces off the gbta when i first got it, literally bite off pieces of the tentacles. (this is when the gbta was just one) .. btas seem pretty tough imo.. after what i seen my maroon doing to them.

 

[foxngn]

Lol....your maroon is brutal !