Condy anemone and percula clownfish

lnintaz

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I purchased a condy anemone yesterday placed it in my 20 gallon tank with my two percula clownfish. I fed the anemone and the fish everyone was happy. I got up this morning and my clowns were hovering above and besideds the condy. Then I saw the smaller clown the male swim and bump into the anemone after that it looked like it had stung him and he swam over to a rock and sit ther for a minute then stayed away from the anemone for a while, the female who is much bigger swam into it and got touched by several parts of the condy and then took off like it got shocked and seemed to be swimming around bumping into the tank walls and the rocks like it couldn't see. They have had anemones before but not a condy. I have seen in my lfs condys that had clownfish in them. I have not had any luck with sebae anemones. The type of anemone that they had before was a sebae but it had a tear on its foot when the lfs person removed it from a rock. It died a few days ago. But before that they haven't had a anemone for 4 years. Is it just going to take a while for them to get used to this one, or should I remove it from the tank. I don't want to loose my clowns. Thanks for your help.:D
 
no condylactis are harmful to fish and may eat them. the clownfish you saw was in something else like (macrodactyla) long tentacle anemone.
 
ok I'll remove the condy today, but the one at the lfs that I saw a clown in was a condy and the skunk clownfish was having a blast playing on it. I will get a bubble tip anemone this weekend.
 
The truth of the matter is that clowns occaisionally do host in condy anemones, it is not common in the least but it does happen.
 
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