That's good advice. If you have ambitions for clownfish, they don't have to have anemones. They will host in a lot of different kinds of things---someone was saying theirs had landed in a featherduster.
There are some good articles to the left, on the splash page of the site.
We're all willing to answer any question---we've all been there.
Let's break it down into---size of aquarium. How much room do you have?
Do you want to go in for metal halides and keep the more difficult corals (really, they're not that hard: it's the pricey lights, fixtures, ballasts (over 500 dollars for the whole light rig for a 55 gallon)and persnickety testing of water quality [elbow grease] that make them rarer. For them you need the whole rig: the sump, the skimmer, the tank, the lights, the ballast, the highpowered return pump).
Then there's the large polyp stoneys, the frogspawns, bubbles, hammers and the acans and plates...their light requirements are less expensive. You still need the sump and skimmer for them to thrive.
Next in degree of difficulty, mushrooms and zoos and leathers, which are more tolerant of lighting and pump/skimmer but demanding in their own way.
You can keep fish in any of these systems, and each one has its appeal. Some people love the small polyp stoneys and their flowerlike colors. Some like the motion of the large polyp types; some like the frilly leathers, which also move; and some like the color shadings and variation of a theme of the mushrooms and zoos. They're all to like. None is 'better' than another. You can keep large and small polyp stoneys together. You can have mushrooms with them, with a few caveats. Leathers don't mix well with either, and definitely not with anemones.
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