is it too late for clowns to host something good?

[kook1e]

ok so my tank has been running for 3 months now give or take. i have coraline algae growth coming in. parameters are fine, my false percula clowns are doing great.a good healthy pair. i still think there fighting on who's going to be what tho (gender wise) but the first month they were in i had nothing in the means of "hosting material". after a month and a half i put some xenia and a huge feather duster in. i know they dont have to have an anemone... but will they ever host that? ive heard they host xenia and feather dusters? they seem to just swim around all the time ignoring everything. expect when they sleep. they have there key spots.

i know im prob being impatient... but im just curious if they ever will. or if its to late for me

and is it a hit or miss with hosting clowns? especially aquacultured clowns??

thanks!! :rolleye1:

 

[kidkaos520]

I can tell you from my minimal experience its a hit or miss. I know my clowns just recently started hosting my colony of duncans and frogspawn. If anything just give it time and if they like it they will go to it.

 

[ILLiDaN]

Im sure they will as everything it takes time, IMO put in a frogspawn and less of a b(*ch to take care of than an anemone

 

[the_rider]

I have my clowns for about 4 months now, BTA for about 3 months maybe more and my female just began to host both BTA lol since maybe a week or so, my male 'host' my frogspawn but not as violently as my female with her bta. They've been around the BTA for a long time, never shown any interest since a week ago, so I would say it's not really hit or miss is just a question of WHEN will they find something they will like to host.

 

[myxsptlk]

Nah, not too late, I had my clowns for about half a year before I bought an anemone, it took a bit of coaxing with a photo but they got the idea and now live happily in it

 

[PRDubois]

Did the Photo trick really work?

 

[myxsptlk]

Yep it did for me, but again like everything with clowns its hit or miss, it worked for my orange clowns but not for my black clowns, though I was trying to get them to host a hairy mushroom instead

 

[ctenophors rule]

lol

i have had clowns host caulerpa prolifera (the long blade one, i think the species might be wrong)

anyway it was pretty cool. they would swim in it for half the day, then tear it to shreads at night. (they loved to eat the stuff)