clown fish wont host anemone.
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mrkell
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Ocellaris Clowns just don't care much for RBTA's. Now on the other hand Maroon clowns love them and will go straight for them usually within minutes of being placed in the tank.
I have a black and white ocellaris mated with a hybrid blood orange clown. The blood orange, being part maroon, lives inside the nem. The mated ocellaris, just lives under the nem and won't touch it.
Link to a really good guide.
https://www.thespruce.com/clownfish-host-anemone-matches-2924117
I have a black and white ocellaris mated with a hybrid blood orange clown. The blood orange, being part maroon, lives inside the nem. The mated ocellaris, just lives under the nem and won't touch it.
Link to a really good guide.
https://www.thespruce.com/clownfish-host-anemone-matches-2924117
dangros
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I agree w/ @Amoo !! That guy knows his stuff. Do some research on anemone and clown fish hosting and you'll see.
In my case, I had a couple of ocellaris and they wouldnt touch any anem until I got a true carpet anemone. The day after I put the carpet in the tank, the clowns hosted the carpet anemone! However, carpets are fragile as heck and after a month or 2, it died in spite of my best cipro treatment efforts. After that, they started to host a red BTA and my frogspawn.
True carpets are the natural host of Ocellaris in the wild. Here's a chart mapping the various types of clowns to it's natural and likely hosts (scroll down the page some) http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-10/hcs3/
Keep in mind that every fish is different and may or may not do what a chart says they will.
And finally, PLEASE do research. Killing fish is not cool. They arent toys, they are living beings.
In my case, I had a couple of ocellaris and they wouldnt touch any anem until I got a true carpet anemone. The day after I put the carpet in the tank, the clowns hosted the carpet anemone! However, carpets are fragile as heck and after a month or 2, it died in spite of my best cipro treatment efforts. After that, they started to host a red BTA and my frogspawn.
True carpets are the natural host of Ocellaris in the wild. Here's a chart mapping the various types of clowns to it's natural and likely hosts (scroll down the page some) http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-10/hcs3/
Keep in mind that every fish is different and may or may not do what a chart says they will.
And finally, PLEASE do research. Killing fish is not cool. They arent toys, they are living beings.
drblakjak55
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My little pair of ocellaris hung out in the upper corner of the tank near the overflow for almost a year.
Than they found the rbta who grew from two to six inches. I would scare them down to near the anemone by hand for a couple weeks.
Than they found the rbta who grew from two to six inches. I would scare them down to near the anemone by hand for a couple weeks.
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I had 2 large RBTA's and a pair of Ocellaris Clowns it took over a year and a half for them to host, But once they did they would never venture far from them.
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Clowns are weird, however they will host in anything with tenticals, mine hosted in my bubble tip, then my euphyllia, then my gino, now in my hammer. Give them time, I had mine for 2 months before they figured it out, but the longer the tenticals the more they like it, and on a side note when they host, they will start to bite your fingers in the tank!
