forcing nemo on anemone
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You're endangering your clowns being eaten by the anemone. be patient and wait..It is a hit and miss if they are tank raised. My tank raised clown took it 6 months to host my LTA...the other pair is hosting my claim and it is leaning toward my BTA "Fingers crossed".
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D-Nak
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It doesn't matter if they are tank raised or not. Clowns find their host anemone by smell, and this is innate. You can't "teach" a clown to find a host. If you were to place the natural host in the tank with any clown, they typically find it within minutes.
In this case, the natural host for percs and occis are H. magnifica, S. gigantea, and H. crispa (for percs) and S. mertesii (for occis). Unfortunately, those anemones tend to be rare and/or hard to acclimate when first acquired.
BTAs are natural hosts for maroons, tomatoes, and Sebae-like clowns.
This isn't to say that nemos will never have a BTA as the host. It just takes time, or may never happen. So yes, cross your fingers.
bjledbetter
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Agreed with above. I watched a lta eat a clarkii. I was buying the lta from a lfs and the lta was hosting the clown. The clown spooked when he reached in to get the lta and the lta ate it immediately. Didn't end well for either as I think the clown tore up the insides of the nem trying to get out and of course the nem killed the clown when it swallowed it. I also agree about the natural host. I have a mag two bta's and a lta in my dt and when I introduced my cb occis to the tank they went almost immediately to the mag and haven't gave the others a second glance.
SNAKEMANVET
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I agree with D-Nak,my occs where tank raised and they were in the H.Mag within 5 minutes.Just give them time.
gregrocks79
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Just leave it be and let nature take its corse. Have a GBTA in mine. Had it about a month. Clowns still don't know what it is. Maybe they will, maybe not. Only time will tell.
You could always try the nem and nemo in a bowl trick, but I'm all about natural process as much as possible. GL
You could always try the nem and nemo in a bowl trick, but I'm all about natural process as much as possible. GL
xrayjeeper83
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My clowns ignore my gbta all day and then at night the female lays in it, just lays there no thrashing or anything lol
My friend...your prophecy came about..after months of waiting my clownfish just started hosting my RBTA yesterday. Ill post some pictures just to validate your point.
Cheers
I tried a bucket trick and my small dawini one didn't go near it but the normal nemo went and stay in the nem.
Put them back into my tank but neither of the nemo likes the nem
Oh I know time will probably fix this but I have this huge killer crabs which already ate 2 of my nemo so I've been catching my small dawini nemo every night in a fry saver before I go to bed! I'm hoping once hosting happens, I wont have to worry about the crabs eating my nemos.
Put them back into my tank but neither of the nemo likes the nem
Oh I know time will probably fix this but I have this huge killer crabs which already ate 2 of my nemo so I've been catching my small dawini nemo every night in a fry saver before I go to bed! I'm hoping once hosting happens, I wont have to worry about the crabs eating my nemos.
theyangman
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Hmmm
xrayjeeper83
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I'm with them, get the crab out. Your gonna stress out the fish which can kill it
I tried a bucket trick and my small dawini one didn't go near it but the normal nemo went and stay in the nem.
Put them back into my tank but neither of the nemo likes the nem
Oh I know time will probably fix this but I have this huge killer crabs which already ate 2 of my nemo so I've been catching my small dawini nemo every night in a fry saver before I go to bed! I'm hoping once hosting happens, I wont have to worry about the crabs eating my nemos.
wow...that must be one big crab
As promised I've waited almost 6 months and it happened out of the blue
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thing is I like the crabs... for the last few days I've been feeding beef to my crabs at night and so far it's worked as my nemos are still alive
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How big is your aquarium? did you put the crabs or they all came as hitch hickers? Feeding them will add more waste in your aquarium
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