Hosting anemone

[carpetlover]

My percula clownfish absolutely refuse to host my haddoni, even though they hosted the one in their tank at the store. I have moved them temporarily into a really small 3 g tank in hopes that they will rub shoulders, but no luck. Any ideas?
pic of 3 g tank below

 

[Dbichler]

I don’t like to force it but you could try feeding directly over the anemone so the clowns have to get really close if not touch.

 

[Homebrewer]

Just a reminder that the anemone is the host, not the fish. In any case, this is an often-discussed topic and I’ve given my opinion before on what I did using the “picture” method. Rather than type it here again , here is a link to a thread which in turn has links to many other threads discussing this:

Timeline to get clowns to host nem

In my experience, the time frame for clownfish to accept an anemone as host is between 5 seconds and several years. Natural hosts are generally accepted right away while the acceptance of other anemones may take some time and convincing. The above is primarily for wild-caught an F1 generation...

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