It's hard to say what affect clown fish will have on an anemone. Especially a newly introduced delicate species. Clowns can have very different personalities. Some are just plain evil and others are very gentile. I try to keep clowns out of my anemones until they have completely adjusted to my aquarium. My Clarkii started using my Magnifica around week two. (I think) I didn't notice any change that I could contribute to the clown, so I Removed the Clarkii and added my Ocellaris pair. Everything seems to be going fine so far.
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12493271#post12493271 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ~SIRENA~
Yeah, I meant false percs 
thanks, I've been following your thread - beautiful mag and great pics. If you have any tips, please post. I will keep an eye out for them. I'm want to make sure I do everything I can to ensure its health.
Thanks. I'm glad you liked the pic's.
There are different opinions on what the proper way to acclimate an anemone is. You will get conflicting advice from different people. Hopefully you will be able to weed through everyone's advice and find something that works for you and your anemone. You asked me to post any tips I may have, so here's my opinion. I hope it doesn't get me into an argument. It's just my opinion.
If your Magnifica is still climbing the rock pile, and he gets in a position where his foot is all on one rock, I would take that rock and move it to the top of the pile. That's most likely where he is headed, and this will simply save him the energy it will take to make the journey. If he starts, what I call "crashing", where he goes completely flaccid and his mouth gapes open, I would immediately do the largest water change I could. The anemone has been through a very rough time. Poor water quality, no food, no light, little to no gas exchange, and God knows what else. Some of its zooxanthellae has most likely died inside it. There may be bacteria populations growing inside. It may still have poor water quality inside it from shipping bags or the LFS. In my opinion many new anemones will crash in an attempt to rid themselves of what ever is inside them causing them stress. They run into problems in aquariums because, when they reinflate, they take in a portion of what they just discharged. This causes a cycle of crashing and expanding until the anemone finally dies or the substance that is causing the stress is removed from the system. My anemone crashed twice in the first week. I did 4 large water changes in that week, and he hasn't crashed again. He won't either. This is not how healthy anemones go poo.
I would try to get it eating as soon as possible. Most anemones that survive seem to go through a growth spurt shortly after introduction to a healthy system. In my opinion this is due to the anemone shrinking during shipping where it suffered a lack on nourishment. These are very weak animals. If they don't receive the nourishment they need, they can not fight off infection, and will die. I assume there is a chance that food inside an anemone could help fuel a bacteria population killing the anemone. In my experience however, anemones that are ill, don't eat. They only begin feeding when they are healthy enough to do so. I doubt that an anemone would eat while it had an internal infection. I guess anything is possible though.
I would provide it with the most chaotic flow possible without jet washing it. Mine has a nice gentle flow that is constantly changing.
Again. This is just my opinion.
