Hosting anything that's soft!!

[srusso]

Well when I first got my clowns and nem, I wanted nothing more than for them to start hosting...

A few months later, they male will just about host anything in my tank!!!

Started with my RBTA... Great!
Then onto my finger leather... Ok...
Then he found out my Duncan coral was also fun... Still though it was cute...

Now he is hosting green zoas and he latest?! The massive amount of Bryopsis in my tank!!

Will he stop at nothing? Will he host anything?! Anyone have a whore of a clown fish like mine?

 

[Lady R]

My blackand white clown host in my Elephant Ear Mushroom

 

[Birdee]

When my female is being a pig and doesn't want to share the BTA, and having a submissive seizure doesn't placate her, the male will try to host on my Duncan... or even a shroom on occasion. He has never hit my one fluffy tuft of hair algae however.
My female pays a visit to the Duncan every once in a while too, but not often. Sometimes those visits seem to be to herd her boy back to the BTA that she previously evicted him from. Lady Clowns are a fickle lot...

Never seen any hosting behavior towards my palys, zoas, xenia, or rics.
Sounds like your little guy is just a bit over zealous.... I'm sure he'll calm down a bit. Adolescent fervor maybe? LOL

 

[srusso]

Hopefully I can get them to breed! Lol clowns that host anything could be a big hit! Lol

 

[srusso]

When my female is being a pig and doesn't want to share the BTA, and having a submissive seizure doesn't placate her, the male will try to host on my Duncan... or even a shroom on occasion. He has never hit my one fluffy tuft of hair algae however.
My female pays a visit to the Duncan every once in a while too, but not often. Sometimes those visits seem to be to herd her boy back to the BTA that she previously evicted him from. Lady Clowns are a fickle lot...

Never seen any hosting behavior towards my palys, zoas, xenia, or rics.
Sounds like your little guy is just a bit over zealous.... I'm sure he'll calm down a bit. Adolescent fervor maybe? LOL

You may be right through, I think my female is hogging the BTA

 

[Just2Many]

At least they haven't killed everything in between.

 

[srusso]

At least they haven't killed everything in between.

Some times you wish he would kill what he hosts. As I type he is sleeping on a bed of Bryopsis...

 

[ct_vol]

The massive amount of Bryopsis in my tank!!

:lol:

 

[EdKruzel]

I had a big nasty Tomato that hovered for months above an Atlantic anemone. I purchesed this fish in excess of 3''s (got much larger). One morning just before the tank lights came on I noticed her head first sticking out of the anemone and figured she finally got too close. Lights came on and there she was rolling around enjoying her new home. I later added a LTA and later still a BTA. For about 16yrs she kept only to that Atlantic.

 

[BonsaiNut]

My blackand white clown host in my Elephant Ear Mushroom

...until it eats them. If you are talking about Amplexidiscus fenestrafer, they are notorious clown eaters.

 

[AGYDAL]

Some times you wish he would kill what he hosts. As I type he is sleeping on a bed of Bryopsis...

Hehehehe...sorry for laughing I feel your pain, at one point I had some crazy byprosis and my urchin would decorate himself with it...Mr Urchin kinda had a Don King/Donald Trump look going on and it drove me insane!

As far as your clown goes, I too have a clown that's not the brightest fish in the tank...metaphorically speaking. If you have a cleaner magnet you better remove it, because that's going to be the next "host" for your clown! Eventually after the right corner of the tank, open brain, clam, left corner of the tank, back to the clam, cleaner shrimps whiskers (it wouldn't let the shrimp touch it though) then cleaner magnet it FINALLY found and stayed in the 10" Sebae anemone...you might try feeding the anemone more? Maybe the female's food aggressive and doesn't want competition in its anemone?

Good luck!

 

[srusso]

Hehehehe...sorry for laughing I feel your pain, at one point I had some crazy byprosis and my urchin would decorate himself with it...Mr Urchin kinda had a Don King/Donald Trump look going on and it drove me insane!

As far as your clown goes, I too have a clown that's not the brightest fish in the tank...metaphorically speaking. If you have a cleaner magnet you better remove it, because that's going to be the next "host" for your clown! Eventually after the right corner of the tank, open brain, clam, left corner of the tank, back to the clam, cleaner shrimps whiskers (it wouldn't let the shrimp touch it though) then cleaner magnet it FINALLY found and stayed in the 10" Sebae anemone...you might try feeding the anemone more? Maybe the female's food aggressive and doesn't want competition in its anemone?

Good luck!

That's the thing! Damn clowns nock the food out of the anemone all the time. So it hardly gets food, get tons of light. It's not a very "sticky" anemone... Like my two rock flower anemones. Plenty of food to go around in the tank.

 

[srusso]

Actually in the beginning I wanted them to host the anemone so much, I started researching ways to encourage it. Read on a thread to put a picture of clowns in an anemone facing in the tank. I thought I could do one better, and found a good video of one it on YouTube and repeatedly played it in my iPad! The male started hosting 3 days later...

 

[Lady R]

Here is a picture of my clown and his favorite host.I have 2 RBTA and a LTA in the tank but it perfers the hairy mushroom.

 

[jacoc]

eating clown

eating clown

...until it eats them. If you are talking about Amplexidiscus fenestrafer, they are notorious clown eaters.

Pls can you explain your coment...where can I read up on this and is there actual proof that they eat clown fish that is alive and well ..?:bum

 

[usatennisfan]

My female spends the day I are my hammer and the night in my wells brain. My male has only been in there with her for a week and has shown interest in my zoas because she won't let him in the hammer.