How to get a clown fish to host a anemone?

Biting or sucking on the tentacles is the very beginning of adapting to sting cells, I would bet this increases and he'll be in there before long.
 
davocean said:
That I can agree with.
Once they discover it and hopefully become curious they will accept that as host.
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Glad to agree on something...this is probably where I would start if the nem is already in tank. Hard to float one when it is attached to the rock etc.

davocean said:
You're talking about what a business does that needs sales and expects a certain amount of losses.
This is a very different situation compared to someone here that has purchased and become attached to their one pair of clowns, and asking for safe and sound advice.
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This is true, but my brother has never seen one of these pairings go wrong.

Like I have said before, he estimates over 90% success.

By this logic, people might as well not trust birth control.
 
i think the female is holding eggs as well she looks like a fat chick that just got done at the buffet and the pair have been acting like there about to spawn. :)
 
Reef1589 said:
these are just things ive heard that have worked for some people
1) tape a pic of clownfish in an anemone on the glass (never worked for me)
2) shining a light above the anemone when the lights are off overnight
3) seperate the two from the bigger tank and isolate the 2 together in a smaller tank kinda forced hosting, but could be dangerous (i never done it)

but a gig is the tru host for a percula i beleive, ive heard of people waiting 2 years before their percs hosting a bta..

i had a pair of percs for a couple months, and htey didnt bother with my bta, so i went out and got the natural host to the bta (maroon clownfish) , and they hosted within a couple of hours..

hope this helps :D
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i have gotten #2 to work within minutes using a cell phone light. on a different tank with different fish and different anemone it didnt. i guess it is hit and miss
 
they looked like they were gonna start hosting then they quit so i gave up and put the anemone back were it first was im prolley going to wait untill they start laying eggs, she is holding eggs right now so anyday now they will start and im prolley going to sell them and buy wild caught clowns instead.
 
zac312 said:
i think the female is holding eggs as well she looks like a fat chick that just got done at the buffet and the pair have been acting like there about to spawn. :)
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You will see them cleaning off the nearest flat space to the anemone...or whatever area that they are hosting. I have gotten percs to spawn several times...not much to it. Its rearing the young that is difficult. :spin2:
 
kingfisherflesh said:
You will see them cleaning off the nearest flat space to the anemone...or whatever area that they are hosting. I have gotten percs to spawn several times...not much to it. Its rearing the young that is difficult. :spin2:
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they started off and on for the last 3 days
 
Cant find the other thread that we were discussing this in, but as stated I got my BTA in yesterday and I used the floating acclimation box.

The BTA had barely put its foot down when I added the two clowns...

The small one went in first, and avoided the anemone. The large one went in second, and immediately dove into it.

They are now both harassing it insanely...and I am more concerned for the anemone than I am for the clownfish...it works.
 
I was in the same boat as you since February, but then end of may we caught our saddleback in our gbta at night.... Some weeks later she went in every so often, and now she goes in there all of the time.

Point of my story, patience and nature, as well as instincts will kick in.
 
IMO, putting an anemone and clown in a confined space to force hosting is a very bad idea. Could very well end up with an eaten clown.
 
kingfisherflesh said:
Cant find the other thread that we were discussing this in, but as stated I got my BTA in yesterday and I used the floating acclimation box.

The BTA had barely put its foot down when I added the two clowns...

The small one went in first, and avoided the anemone. The large one went in second, and immediately dove into it.

They are now both harassing it insanely...and I am more concerned for the anemone than I am for the clownfish...it works.
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I have had clowns kill anemones that were not well established.
 
Toddrtrex said:
IMO, putting an anemone and clown in a confined space to force hosting is a very bad idea. Could very well end up with an eaten clown.
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Agreed, but it very rarely works out that way. People who have introduced tank raised clowns this way have almost never had issues. I welcome anyone who has tried this method to post negative results...they just arent out there.

snorvich said:
I have had clowns kill anemones that were not well established.
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This was my biggest concern...should have just waited. The foot is down now...and both appear to be happy.
 
xtlosx said:
I was in the same boat as you since February, but then end of may we caught our saddleback in our gbta at night.... Some weeks later she went in every so often, and now she goes in there all of the time.

Point of my story, patience and nature, as well as instincts will kick in.
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If anemone hosting was as easy as instinct...all these threads on getting clowns to host wouldnt exist.

As far as begin in the same boat, it doesnt sound like we ever were because my female went into the anemone in the strawberry box right away.

We should start a thread for those with first hand experience of "force" hosting.

There is room for the clowns to move around in there without being in contact with the anemone...about the same amount of room that they were "hosting" in the corner of my tank before I netted them into there. About to remove the anemone and put it into the DT...will post updates.
 
Rather than waiting for someone to brag about a failure(which almost never happens out of embaressment) why not search out posts that have already happened.
I've seen many.
There have been a few people lately really encouraging irresponsible practices because they got lucky once, or their brothers friend saw this happen once, blah blah...
I don't understand the lack of patience or disagreements w/ people who have been on here for a while reading as much or more than posting.
Do you think exp reefers sit here and wonder how we can bum someone out, or feel cooler than others or something?
I don't get it, most of us are just giving sound advice based on LONG TERM reading and or experiences in order to help, that's it.
I've read stories of people falling out of an airplane w/out a parachute and living, should we start advising jumping w/out a chute because we lack the patience to pack one??LOL
Patience is your best friend in this hobby.
 
kingfisherflesh said:
If anemone hosting was as easy as instinct...all these threads on getting clowns to host wouldnt exist.
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And most of everyone that asks this question has not been in the hobby very long. And that is part of the fun is learning about the life that you take into your hands to care for it the rest of its life. So your trying to say is that if you lived out in the wild you wouldnt look for a place that you could call home. Some where that you felt safe and sound. Yes for awhile you would wander around but after you figure out that hey a roof over my head sure does make things nice. Even humans have the feelings. Even though we dont really use them as much as we should because we learn from our parents and they learned from theres and so on and so forth.
 
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