clowns hosting suns--suns not happy

[Susan Edwards]

My new clowns are trying to host the colony of sun corals and the suns are not happy. They haven't opened to eat in days! How do I get the clowns to occupy another part of the yank. They could host the duncan or the toadstool or the gsp's. No anemone at the moment. Do I need to get another one asap? Mine is in qt as it went downhill for no apparent reason. Pic shows just the male but she is right there as well

My last clowns hosted the back corner of the tank. I was happy these guys were out front but....

 

[Crabs McJones]

My new clowns are trying to host the colony of sun corals and the suns are not happy. They haven't opened to eat in days! How do I get the clowns to occupy another part of the yank. They could host the duncan or the toadstool or the gsp's. No anemone at the moment. Do I need to get another one asap? Mine is in qt as it went downhill for no apparent reason. Pic shows just the male but she is right there as well

My last clowns hosted the back corner of the tank. I was happy these guys were out front but....

Unfortunately you'll have to most likely physically separate the clowns from your sun corals. Being that sun corals have to eat and are non photosynthetic, they'll starve. When clowns pick a home it's hard to get them to relocate, they love it to death and once it's gone they move on. I lost a colony of torch coral (10 + heads) from clowns loving them to death. Luckily after the torch died, they decided to move to my duncan colony, and the duncan doesn't seem to mind.

 

[Susan Edwards]

so the question is, how do I move the clowns. Use a net and try to scoot them to other side of tank?

 

[Krzydmnd]

so the question is, how do I move the clowns. Use a net and try to scoot them to other side of tank?

Can you create some kind of barrier with egg crate? Even temporarily until they find something else to love on.

 

[Susan Edwards]

So far, just used a fish net to scoot htem away. Now they are bugging the palys right under which don't seem to mind. Too many corals for egg crate. I have mesh screen but again, not sure I can protect one rock without damaging another.