Do your captive born clowns host?

[Jeremy Blaze]

I hear lots of stories of captive bred clowns most going to anemones, so I thought I would start a poll and see.

If you have captive bred clown and an anemone in the same tank, tell us if the host or not?

 

[scionreefing]

I hear lots of stories of captive bred clowns most going to anemones, so I thought I would start a poll and see.

If you have captive bred clown and an anemone in the same tank, tell us if the host or not?

My SA clowns host all the time.

Raffle grabber

 

[deangelr]

99% of the CB clowns on here that wont be hosted are due to non natural symbiont combinations.. Ocellaris and Percula do not naturally associate with BTA.. just my $.02

 

[AquaReeferMan]

I do not keep anemones anymore due to a heavy SPS tank but my clowns are always in their frogspawn or field of green hairy mushrooms.

 

[elegance coral]

IMHO/E, captive bred clowns will seek out a host. Their drive to do so, may not be as strong as in a wild caught clown, so it may take them much longer to find one.

 

[this is me]

My Onyx(percula) pair will be hosted in anything that's soft if the giganteas are not present. With the giganteas(their natural host), they're more picky and will only spend the night in the gigantea.
I have 2 giganteas, 1 haddoni, and 2 BTAs. The clowns spend 90% of the time in the giganteas and visit the haddoni every now and then. But they don't even look at the BTAs even though it's 1" away from their host gigantea.

 

[Jeremy Blaze]

This is me, I am confused, you say they only spend the night in the giganteas, but then say they spend 90% of their time there.

 

[this is me]

They spend their night only in the gigantea. They don't sleep anywhere else.
When I used to have only BTAs, they sleep in the BTAs.

 

[this is me]

My point is, it's very likely that clowns, captive bred or not, will be hosted if you give it enough time to be comfortable in their host.

 

[Jreid35]

We have a Tomato Clown that we bought with a Sebae Anemone and they were a nice pair. Since the demise of the Sebae, "Bozo" was 'out of sorts' and we purchased a nice example of a Green Bubble Tip last week which he immediately 'took to'.

 

[Jeremy Blaze]

Im suprised by the votes! Lets keep them coming.

 

[lilyost4290]

I got a gigantea today and within three hours my occy pair was making themselves at home.

 

[DeePDiSHeD]

My pair of occ consists of 1 wc, 1 cb. Neither of them have taken to the BTA. It's been 8 months and counting. I'm still hoping they will take to it.

 

[1fishkeeper]

I got a couple of baby "SA" fancy occys that were only about 3/4" long. With in 2 hours they were playing inside of the Mag and loving it. I think what a lot of what it takes if just the right combo.

 

[velvetelvis]

I've had captive-bred clowns (a maroon, a pair of clarkii, a pair of ocellaris--not all at the same time!) take to BTAs and a toadstool coral.

 

[mr9iron]

I had some captive bred GSMs that were hosted by a GBTA.

 

[Korrine]

Yes, my Bonnie hosted a BTA in her old tank. Hope she will host one when her new tank is ready for one.

 

[Baltimore Bryan]

My cb occ pair hosted a BTA and now they host a finger leather coral. I will probably get another BTA soon for them to host instead of the coral.
Bryan

 

[aklee987]

Mine are both captive bred. They are also divorced. My black occellaris lives in a frogspawn. My orange occellaris lives in an RBTA about 6 inches away.

 

[Big E]

My SA tank bred Nigripes took all of about an hour to make my non-natural host H. Malu their home.

I think the clowns are more likely to take up an anenome faster if they are introduced to a new tank with an anenome already in it verses the anemome being added to a tank where the clowns have already settled in.