I have a nice aneome in my nano!!

here it is...

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Thanks! havn't seen too many in nano tanks. Probably because they get big and are very hard to remove from the tank! It had a clown, but then it killed her!! :....(
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15307124#post15307124 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Betito
lol you seem like an awesome preschool teacher! its not normal for a nem to sting the clown is it? especially a bta
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Not normal, but it can happen. That is what happens when a clown isn't "ready" to be hosted. And in a small tank there is a better chance of a clown running into an anemone.

This is the main reason I never recommend forcing a clown to be hosted by an anemone.
 
Well, wen I bought her, she was hosting an anenome of the same size. Its just the anenome I had was hosted by a larger clown prior to the smaller clown. And they were different types of anenome, and different types of clowns! There was no forcing, she hosted the anenome on her own, and was willing to feed it.
 
I didn't know

I didn't know

I didn't know anemones could sting clownfish.I thought I read somewhere that they have a special protective coating over there bodies that protect them from stings from anemones?Are you sure it wasn't something else that killed the fish and then maybe the nem ate the corpes?
 
They don't get the slime coat (( or whatever it is )) right away. That is why you will sometimes notice a clown just at the edges of an anemone for a while before it is fully hosted by the anemone.
 
Yeah but the clown was ...

Yeah but the clown was ...

The poster noted that the clown was previously hosting in a anemone when it was bought.So it had to already had the coating you think?
 
Well my boyfriend has been doing this for over 8 years now! He has a 240g and has his two GB clowns for over 2 years now. He has done extensive reseach on this topic. Its his belief that the clown has to slowly get used the sting of a new anenome, also if the anenome is not geting fed enough it will eat the host. But when she started getting sick you could tell the nem had been stinging her. The marks it left hard to explain but my boyfriend said he had seen this before.
 
First, the anemone is the host, not the clown.

In all my years of keeping anemones and clowns I have never had an issue with an anemone eating a clown because the anemone wasn't being fed.

REEFERINDC --- It is possible that moving the clown to a new tank, it being handled, etc., could have removed some of the slim coat. Not saying that that is exactly what happened in this case, but it could.
 
This is just my opinion....

I wouldn't keep any anemone in a 12 gallon nano, or even anything smaller then a 30 gallon. All the hosting anemones will outgrow a 12 gallon tank.
 
^ agreed with Todd, it may be okay short term but its far from ideal. Any hosting species will out grow it fast giving you space issues not to mention water quality issues, they are dirty little buggers :)
 
I have an anemone in 12g, its tiny, and it works out just fine!! Your tank is your creation. Just if you buy one go very small. Good Luck! Every reefer has adiferent opinion!
 
Is is off topic to ask about your beautiful little Goby? Is he a Barbershop Goby? I just got 2, a pair, and I adore them.
 
Hi tangalong, this actually a rose anemone goby! I have 2, they came as a pair with their pistol shrimp. And I enjoy mine very much as well.
 
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