Maroon or Tomato Clown- hosting question

[Chihuahua6]

I have read that Ocellaris have a 50/50 chance of being hosted by an anemone. I am wondering if I have a better chance with Tomato Clowns in my BTAs.

I can purchase a pair of Maroons (white stripe) that were being hosted by the Haddoni Carpet I purchased. These fish will be for my BTAs, however (different tank.) Since they happily accepted the Carpet Anemone I'm pretty sure they will take to any one of the BTAs in my tank since it's their natural Anemone.

The thing is, I would much rather have Tomato Clowns in this tank. Can someone give me a percentage on the chances that two small tank raised Tomato Clowns will accept my BTAs? Since this is their natural Anemone I am hoping I have a good chance of them accepting the Anemone. If it's 50/50 I may go and get those Maroons instead.

Thanks.

 

[ocellaris123]

Cant really give a percentage but my tomato pair took 20 minutes to adopt my bta. BTA's are after all their natural host so i would think the odds of them hosting are highly in your favor.

 

[jtreefdweller]

With a BTA you have good chances both the tomatoes and the maroons will take to it pretty fast. I breed maroons and the babies took to it in hours. I also keep tomatoes and when I added them they immediately swam into my BTA.