Known Host Surrogates for Ocellaris?

[jshorter]

Hi everyone!

I am wondering if there is a list of known host surrogates for A. ocellaris? I have a pair of tank raised 'Mocha' Ocellaris, and while they are happy without a host anemone, I wanted to provide them with a little more "creature comfort". I do not want to add an anemone, as I want to keep the tank dedicated strictly to corals. What alternative hosts have you all seen them use, and what have the results (to the host) been?

Thanks a bunch for any suggestions you can provide!

Best regards,
Jason

 

[WaffleWalffle22]

Frogspawn
Elegance
Toadstool

Those three are the first that come to mind.

 

[sjkarrow87]

torch/hammer/frogspawn, hairy mushrooms, brain corals, fox corals are corals that i have seen my clowns take to.

my ocellaris' currently live in my fox coral

 

[artur]

I have a couple of ocellaris, they have been in my tank for more than 3 years now, since I set up my tank. At first there where nothing for them to rub on but liverock, so at night they used to sleep in one corner near the surface, then I added a sarcophyton this was like 3" accros with 1/4" polyps and whitin a couple of months they started to have occational contact with it, now they love the sarco and some times when the sacro is closed they move to a hammer colony or the green star polyps.
So if you like sarcos in my experience is a good alternative at first the sarco didnt like it very much, but it got used to them

 

[davocean]

Just about anything soft and wavy,(frogspawn my fav) and even add a monti cap to the mix IME.

 

[jshorter]

Excellent! Thank you all for your observations!

 

[tankfly]

green star polyps, just keep them isolated.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Mine lived and bred for many years living in a green tree coral (Nephthea).

 

[jshorter]

Randy,

Hum, I wouldn't have thought they would, but I guess anything is possible!

Thanks!
Jason

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Funny thing is, they loved it so much that when I placed a big H. crispa only a few inches away, with a breeding pair of pink skunk clowns, they still never moved. For years the two pairs would swim to within 2 inches of each other without apparent aggression (although I might not interpret nonverbal fish language properly ). They all seemed more iinterested in their own reflections than the other pair.


One day I added a new S. gigantea a few inches away, and they started to become interested, but it never made the transition to my tank.

 

[AquaReeferMan]

My clowns are either in my frogspawn or a patch of green hairy mushrooms.