TR Clowns and anemones

[blueridge]

I have a pair of ORA ocellaris and a GBTA. The ocellaris don't seem interested in the GBTA after a week. I assume that being tank raised, some of their natural instinct has been bred out of them. Any ideas on enticing the clowns to host the anemone?

 

[ctlegacy]

I can tell you a wrong way that worked for me... I put the anemone and the two clowns into a critter cage. Left them in there over night and in the morning one was hosting. Once one was hosting, it only took about 3 more days before the mate got the hint.

You obviously put the critter cage back into the main tank with the anemone and the clowns in it so it continues to get circulated water.

 

[Toddrtrex]

IMO, putting clowns and an anemone inside a "critter cage" is a very bad idea. Forcing a clown to be hosted before it is ready could very well end up with a injured clown, or even a dead one.

A week really isn't all that long to wait. Can take minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, etc. Also, I have yet to hear any proof that TR clowns have had their inborn instinct to be hosted breed out of them. IME, all of my TR clowns have been hosted.

 

[marc price]

not hosting as a result of being tank bred is a myth, you're problem is in not providing your percula complex species with a natural host species anemone.