Hosting is a Success!

[aquaman3680]

I just had to share my excitement! After a couple of weeks in the tank, my snowflake ocellaris clowns have finally found the BTA! One clown is hosting almost full time, just starting today, the other is reluctant about it. The hosting clown keeps going over to the other then darts back to the anemone trying to get it to host too.

Nothing better, in my opinion, than seeing clowns hosting in anemones! I just had to share!

 

[vetteguy53081]

Very nice. For clarification, the anemone is the host, the clown is the guest
Funny is, I have 4 BTAs' and 4 breeding pairs of clowns and none of them go near the nems

 

[aquaman3680]

Very nice. For clarification, the anemone is the host, the clown is the guest
Funny is, I have 4 BTAs' and 4 breeding pairs of clowns and none of them go near the nems

Absolutely. Oh man, what kind of clowns? I had a pair of percs in a precious tank that wouldn't go near an anemone as well, they preferred the corner of the tank. Crazy!

 

[vetteguy53081]

Absolutely. Oh man, what kind of clowns? I had a pair of percs in a precious tank that wouldn't go near an anemone as well, they preferred the corner of the tank. Crazy!

One pair is storms, snowflake and two pair are perculas

 

[Sean Clark]

Looking hosted.

 

[JachPot]

Very nice. For clarification, the anemone is the host, the clown is the guest
Funny is, I have 4 BTAs' and 4 breeding pairs of clowns and none of them go near the nems

When I worked at the LFS I did, we used to tell people to find a picture of a very similar clown in the correct* anenome, print it out in color and tape it on the tank (color facing the fish). Swear to god it works, we have no idea why.

 

[Sean Clark]

When I worked at the LFS I did, we used to tell people to find a picture of a very similar clown in the correct* anenome, print it out in color and tape it on the tank (color facing the fish). Swear to god it works, we have no idea why.

Never seen that approach before. I guess if it works it works.

 

[JachPot]

Never seen that approach before. I guess if it works it works.

What I really need is someone to verify it, so I can look like a genius. We had 2-3 people come back in my time at the store and tell me it worked. It could very well be coincidence, but since vette has 4 pairs and 4 anenomes, I think it could be a fun, harmless experiment.

 

[aquaman3680]

What I really need is someone to verify it, so I can look like a genius. We had 2-3 people come back in my time at the store and tell me it worked. It could very well be coincidence, but since vette has 4 pairs and 4 anenomes, I think it could be a fun, harmless experiment.

I've seen this work for people who's tanks I used to maintain when working at the LFS when I was younger. Their clowns wouldn't go in an anemone, I'd have them print out a picture and tape it near where the clowns hung out and they would go find the anemone. Seemed to work about 70% of the time.

 

[aquaman3680]

Double post, my bad

 

[Chrisv.]

When I worked at the LFS I did, we used to tell people to find a picture of a very similar clown in the correct* anenome, print it out in color and tape it on the tank (color facing the fish). Swear to god it works, we have no idea why.

When you say "correct" do you mean the natural host for the species,or the same combo as in the tank?

 

[JachPot]

When you say "correct" do you mean the natural host for the species,or the same combo as in the tank?

The same combo you're attempting to do. So snowflake + rbta picture in his case.

The idea is to match it to your case exactly.

 

[Chrisv.]

The same combo you're attempting to do. So snowflake + rbta picture in his case.

The idea is to match it to your case exactly.

Ok, I'm in. I REALLY want my black clown to live in my neon green sarcophyton. I'm going to photo shop him in and put the pic by the tank and see what happens.

If it works, I will make lots of posts about my clown hosting the toadstool, just to give the pedantic folks among us a reason to twitch.

 

[JachPot]

My clowns currently live in my hologram hammer lol, and the goby lives under it. It's been a good laugh.