Haitian Pink-Tipped

[harry1511]

First off let me say what a great forum and source of knowledge I have found this place to be. As always I'm constantly combing Reef forums for information, today I came across a post in another website forum in it the poster talks of how he lost his clown to a Haitian.
Currently my tank is host to what I have always believed to be a Haitian I would like a second opinion and any thoughts on if it is a risk. Everything I have read previously has lead me to believe that this would not be an issue.

 

[jasonrp104]

It looks like a type of condy but I'm always reluctant to ID.

There are people who have clowns with condys but it's always a risk with them. The one condy I had would go after anything that touched it

HTH

 

[harry1511]

Thanks for confirming my thoughts. I had always read that clowns where reluctant to host with them but until now never read anything about them being a risk. At the moment it's oral disc is about 30mm so maybe I should think about geting my clowns now so they can have a chance to mature while it's still small.

 

[jasonrp104]

If you like anemonies and don't mind one that travels, condys are cool. I loved mine, but now that I have corals and alot more powerheads, it would be a problem.

I've always said they are a poor man's riterri

 

[garygb]

yeah, that does look like a Haitian condy, condylactis gigantea. They like good water quality and reef lighting. They are from the Atlantic/Caribbean and aren't natural hosts, as it sounds like you know. I've read that they definitely eat clownfish on occasion, though I know they also successful host maroons, and perhaps other species as well.

 

[harry1511]

Thanks I've moved it out off my main tank and into one of my q tanks a friend of mine is gona take it. It's done extremely well in my tank and is still clinging to the old piece of coral I put it on. Hopefully it will move off it in Q so I can get it back before it goes, any ideas about persuading it would be apreciated. I have put a lot of flow in it's direction hoping that will help.
As for eating clowns I have untill that post not read that in any articles. Though I understood that because the Haitian and clown are from completly different regions the two species do not interact in the wild.

 

[bobbyjeb]

After having my three maroon clowns for about three monthes one got stung by the Haitian. He acted rather strange for the rest of the day, floated, layed on the bottem, crawled in a cave for a while. I thought he would be dead the next day. But he was fine. A few weeks ago he took to hosting the anemonea! today I saw him pick up the tips for whatever reason. Not eating them, or inflicting any harm, just pick them up and swim as far as it will reach.

Bad news...I am missing one of the clowns. The smallest of the three. Just makes me go..hummmmm

 

[clowns101]

I had a pair of Amphriprion Frenatus that hosted one.The only thing was the anemones would move every night.like it was unhappy.But he lived for 6 months.He died because he got caught up in some chaeto and could not het out.I was always removeing him but kept going back and then one day just dead.