hosting question

[Hbohi]

I have a RBTA and 2 captive raised ocellaris.. the RBTA is on one side of the tank and the clowns stay on the complete other side...Will the Anem host captive raised clowns?

 

[Duality]

hosting question

The clowns should host the nem. There's two ways I have seen work. If u can catch the clowns and get the nem out? Put them in a small tupperware container at the top of the water using your mag glass cleaner to hold it in place. The idea is to force the clowns into the nem.
The second is my favorite way. Take a small LED flash light and point it at the nem after the lights go out. The idea is the clowns will gather in the light and will get them to gather in the nem for protection.

 

[D-Nak]

The clowns should host the nem. There's two ways I have seen work. If u can catch the clowns and get the nem out? Put them in a small tupperware container at the top of the water using your mag glass cleaner to hold it in place. The idea is to force the clowns into the nem.
The second is my favorite way. Take a small LED flash light and point it at the nem after the lights go out. The idea is the clowns will gather in the light and will get them to gather in the nem for protection.

Let's clarify a few things...

1. The anemone is the host, the clowns don't host the nem.
   
2. Forcing clowns into a nem could lead to death of the clowns. If they're not ready, the anemone could sting the clowns or even eat them. Never put a nem and clowns into a confined space hoping this will speed up the hosting process.
   
3. BTAs are not the natural host of ocellaris. Hosting may or may not happen. It just takes time. Just be patient.

 

[Duality]

Let's clarify a few things...

1. The anemone is the host, the clowns don't host the nem.
   
2. Forcing clowns into a nem could lead to death of the clowns. If they're not ready, the anemone could sting the clowns or even eat them. Never put a nem and clowns into a confined space hoping this will speed up the hosting process.
   
3. BTAs are not the natural host of ocellaris. Hosting may or may not happen. It just takes time. Just be patient.

This is true but ocellaris will have a host relationship with BTAs, have had it in my own tank. I got it done by the flash light trick. I've never done the forced small space method that's Schnitzel deal he swears by it. But yes my ocellaris would choose any one of my 3 ritteris (Heteractis magnifica) over any one of my 17 bubble tips. So the ocellaris stay in the ritteris and my maroons stay in the bubbles. I do know a RBTA will be a suitable host for false perc clowns.

 

[Hbohi]

alright thank you...they fallow my finger so ive tried playing fallow the finger to get them to atleast see the anem and no success yet...i will use caution

 

[D-Nak]

alright thank you...they fallow my finger so ive tried playing fallow the finger to get them to atleast see the anem and no success yet...i will use caution

Clowns find their host nem via smell, so getting them close to the nem may helps, but since a BTA not the natural host of an ocellaris, your fish may not be immediately attracted to it. No one knows why some fish take longer than others to use a nem as a host. We oftentimes see them using a coral as a host even though there are nems in the tank.

And to clarify, many anemones are suitable host anemones. It's common to see percs and occis in BTAs. It's just that your chances of success are a lot higher if you pick a natural host anemone -- they just happen to be some of the hardest to acquire and acclimate.

 

[Ocfishguy]

Be patient, my pair of F perc clowns hosted my GBTA after more then 14 months together. After 14 months of them hosting the bottom corner of the opposite side of the tank for the GBTA I came home from Thanksgiving vacation and there they were together and have not left since. It should happen, but only time will only tell.

 

[Hbohi]

ok thank you

 

[Quackjn]

Be patient, my pair of F perc clowns hosted my GBTA after more then 14 months together. After 14 months of them hosting the bottom corner of the opposite side of the tank for the GBTA I came home from Thanksgiving vacation and there they were together and have not left since. It should happen, but only time will only tell.

Just wanted to say the same thing. My snowflakes stayed in the backleft corner of my tank for about 2 weeks. I woke up yesterday to find them both in a BTA at the opposite side of the tank, a side I had never seen them venture to before. Today when I woke up 1 was in my BTA and the other was in my small LTA which are again, on opposite sides of the tank from one another My perc clowns took about 2 months and was basically the same story. They never bothered to go around any of my anemone's and one morning I woke up to find them both "lounging around" in a BTA.

Just give it time and they will eventually find what they feel comfortable with

 

[125mph]

I've been waiting for 2.5 years for mine to host.. I have a haddoni nem and the two occelaris clowns (midnight ORAs) simply would not take him as a host... so I got rid of those ones and got two new clowns (white snowflakes SA) and again they havent taken the nem..

So I got a BTA too and placed it by where the snowflakes sleeps and still they choose not to take the BTA.. instead, they changed their sleeping location...

I'm thinking of catching these clowns and getting saddleback clowns at my LFS which are already hosting the haddoni in the store...