My Clowns found my BTA! YAY!

[NewJerseyreef]

Today i have a very long day and hadnt seen the tank all day long and just came home to find out that my anenome is host my one tomato clown! It took about a week. the other one isnt too far away but still seems shy...

question though... it seems that the clown is being rough with it and kind of digging into him... is the normal? in the second picture you can see what i mean my digging and also you can see the ohter clown does stray too far.

 

[tahoe61]

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Looks perfectly normal and happy, congradulatons.:celeb1:

 

[NewJerseyreef]

Ok now im worried!!! the other clown is shy because i just witnessed the one in the anenome actually attack him and bite his fin... they seems to get along perfectly and slept together before today! why is the one bite the other and not letting him in??

 

[arioch]

Normal behavior. The female will kick out the male while they're taking to the host.

 

[amore169]

I got a RBTA for my Picassos a while back and took them like 2 weeks to host it, now they won't leave it alone.

 

[NewJerseyreef]

Normal behavior. The female will kick out the male while they're taking to the host.

will she eventually let him in or atleast become less agrressive... she got him on the fin pretty good;. she pulled him a good 6 inches by the fin

 

[Reefposer]

Thats sweet. My black clowns have shown zero interest in my bta for months. My six line wrasse on the other hand love swimming through the tentacles real quick.. go figure.

 

[Gold Stripe]

Yes. Once she is comfortable with the anemone she should let him in. Mine reached a point where he never left the anemone except during feeding. She made him stay in it and she would go off and wander. Dont have one now that I downsized but she does the same thing with their cave.

 

[nanotank]

I always used my hands to kinda force the clowns near the anemone and that usually did the trick. Now they never leave but a few inches from it.. Breeding pair of blacks in 10" RBTA