Night time withdrawal of RBTA a hinderance to clown hosting?

[Shooter7]

Just thought I'd toss this question out there and see what I came up with. I have had one ocellaris clown for over a year now, purchased as a little baby from Inland Aquatics. Used to host in my frogspawn in my 26 gal tank. Flash forward to earlier this year when I upgraded and moved everything to a 120 gal reef. My clown never even so much as looked at the frogspawn again and preferred to wedge himself between the heads of a candy cane coral at night. I added a very nice RBTA back around Feb and still, no apparent interest from the clown. A little over a month ago I added a second ocellaris from a local breeder and the two of them seem to be pretty cool with one another. Since the arrival of this new clown, the two of them seem to take turns hovering over the RBTA while the lights are on, as though contemplating what they need to do to get into that thing. However, the RBTA has positioned itself such that it is in a deep crevace and at night it completely retracts down under the rocks. Does this behavior inhibit the clowns' willingness to host in the anemone? Or if they were to go ahead and move in, would that perhaps encourage the anemone not to do this? And I don't suppose there's anything I could do to encourage them to go ahead and move in? thanks

 

[Toddrtrex]

My BTAs do the exact same thing every night. It didn't seem to effect my pair of pink skunks from using them as hosts. When I first put the pair in the tank, they ignored the BTAs for about a week. Then each day they would get closer and closer to it. One day the female jumped right in, the male soon followed. They manage to still sleep in it at night, even though it retracts.

HTH.

 

[Javeo]

Since my clowns have started hosting my GBTA it retracts less at night and the clowns manage to sleep in it. I think hosting clowns make the anemone feel less threatened.