How to make clown go into Nem??

[agarcia892003]

I bough a pink tip Nem about two weeks ago and my gold stripe clown wont even go near it. How can I make him get closer to it. I tried feeding closer to the anenome but he wont go close to it..

 

[olemiss reb]

I've had success using a laser pointer, clowns chased it into the nem and never left. I'm assuming "pink tip" means it's a condy-these aren't a natural host for clowns, so it may never host. My maroons loved bta's.

 

[knights27]

yea all you can do is wait some clowns host nems in 2 weeks some host in like 1 year some will never host a nem

 

[StillerNat]

in my 24 nano my gsm took a month to go into the rbta i got for it. i heard of a lazer pointer, or a smalll flashlight works great. what worked for my was i was doing a water change of about 10g and the water was really low and it swam into it and never left it....until i evicted it for a pair of snows. hehe

 

[agarcia892003]

so do I point the laser at the Nem?

 

[traveller7]

Post a picture of your anemone before wasting any time on the prospect. A gold stripe maroon is not typically picky about hosting in any suitable anemone.

 

[agarcia892003]

there it is

 

[traveller7]

From the single picture, it appears to be an Atlantic Condylactis species. TCondy is not a natural clown hosting species.

If the tentative anemone ID is correct, a clown choosing to call it home will be hit or miss at best.

In the anemones best interest, I would expect it to be happier on rocky substrate vs the glass at the sand line.