Will a clown fish take up a FAKE anemone?

[wantsalotta]

will do later tonight. He is a tough little bugger to get pictures of, i think I have a few decent ones at home on the pc

 

[ryan115]

my black ocellaris host my deresa at night even though they have a perfectly good rose bubble tip about a foot away.
oh well... c'est la vie!

 

[Wolverine]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9133862#post9133862 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by clayspst
i have heared of them hosting fake ones but never seen it.

Not only will they host in fake anemones, but some people have taken a bunch of rubberbands and stuck them into epoxy. In the right flow, clownfish will start hosting in those.

There are a lot of things that clownfish might host in. Our old pair would only host in beds of zoanthids. For everything that is listed as a possible surrogate anemone, I've seen clownfish completely ignore it. With some clownfish it seems to have more to do with location than anything else.

Dave

 

[Cosmo^Kramer]

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Long polyp toadstool

 

[Navyblue]

Mine would host a leather coral (sarcophyton sp) in the day, but would sleep in a bumpy mushrooms next to it when the coral goes hairless at night.

 

[cristhiam]

 

[wantsalotta]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9146949#post9146949 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by cristhiam

Nice pics:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

 

[pbukow]

I've heard that it is particularly difficult to get tank raised Ocellaris to bond with an anemone. Someone at my LFS told me the best way to increase your odds is if you get a mated pair. Any thoughts?

 

[pbukow]

What typr of anemone is that the ocellaris hosted in cristhiam?

 

[cristhiam]

That's a goniopora, that thanks to them is receiding after 2+ years :mad2:
Now all 3 of them host the torch, but I think is too late for my goni to recover.
It's a nice picture thou

 

[wantsalotta]

My baby rods clown, as requested

 

[sunfish11]

I have a rods reef clown in a jbj 12, he is about 1/2 inch long, and has tripled in size from when I got him at IMAC. Since day one, he has "hosted" The overflow grates on the back wall. He has xenia, hairy mushrooms, 3 euphyllia colonies to chose from, but still prefers the overflow

I know how you feel. Mine host between my bulkheads. They have all sorts of things to choose from. I can't tell you how irritating it is

 

[rich99rich]

Mine host a toadstool. They have also hosted xenia. I've heard that toadstools are the best substitute for an anemone, as it is possible for clownfish to irritate, and eventually kill, LPS corals.

 

[SitBackAndWatch]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9133829#post9133829 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by sperry
I agree, go with some coral. Frogspawn or Hammer is good also. To answer your question, my girlfriend has a Clarkii that hosts a plastic anemone. She put it in as a joke and for some color until she got real coral. Now she wont take it out because the Clarkii is "so cute" in it.

I have seen clowns host frogspawns befroe, and about 2 months later the frogspawn is dead. Clowns tend to wiggle alot when they are hosting. The constant rubbing of the fishes body against the soft tissue of the Frogspawn/Hammer can destroy the tissue completely. Be careful with frogswapns and clowns. My clowns (1pair of percula's) havn't hosted my forgspawn yet. but they like to hang out under its tenticles. I have noticed that when one of my clowns rubs up against the base of the frogspawn it retracts.

My clowns seem to like my Hairy Mushrroms the best. I have 3 large ones spread throughout my tank and my clowns swim from one to the other just playing in them.

 

[Sheol]

My female ocellaris host in both my Xenia patch & its neighboring Giant grren Rhodactis mushroom. In fact I gotta clean the glass this afternoon, so my fingers are on the menu. She is quite aggressive in their defense!

Matthew

 

[jurrasicjordan]

Not only will they host in fake anemones, but some people have taken a bunch of rubberbands and stuck them into epoxy. In the right flow, clownfish will start hosting in those.

There are a lot of things that clownfish might host in. Our old pair would only host in beds of zoanthids. For everything that is listed as a possible surrogate anemone, I've seen clownfish completely ignore it. With some clownfish it seems to have more to do with location than anything else.

Dave

about that rubberband thing, where can i get epoxy and how would i make 1 of these? and how much does epoxy cost?

 

[Recty]

A breeder here in my town cuts up strips of black plastic garbage bags, real skinny and long like a tentacle and rubber bands them to a piece of PVC. All his percula clowns, even the original pair from the wild, host those fake anemones just fine.

 

[zachfishman]

I had a pair of ocellaris host in a particularly thick tuft of hair algae once!

 

[sslak]

My frogspawn currently hosts my clownfish.

It's a great beginner coral with really nice color, and clownfish love them.

 

[Wolverine]

about that rubberband thing, where can i get epoxy and how would i make 1 of these? and how much does epoxy cost?

Wow, what an old thread.

You can get underwater epoxy at any aquarium store. Costs about $10 for a tube of it. You wad the epoxy into a ball, and stick the rubber bands into it before it dries.