New anemone

ReeferTang44 · Jul 23, 2023

Just got this anatomy today. Wanted to see what you guys think does it look healthy

and how long does it take for clown fish to host it?

blaxsun · Jul 23, 2023

Yes, from what I can see. How long? Weeks, months... longer? Most clownfish are captive bred and don't really have a clue what to do with the anemone.

ReeferTang44 · Jul 23, 2023

blaxsun said:
Yes, from what I can see. How long? Weeks, months... longer? Most clownfish are captive bred and don't really have a clue what to do with the anemone.

How does it everyone always have hosting clownfish ???

blaxsun · Jul 23, 2023

ReeferTang44 said:
How does it everyone always have hosting clownfish ???

Because clownfish are captive bred and don't know what to do with an anemone, so it takes them time to figure out (they're not the sharpest tools in the toolkit).

1112-425XL · Jul 23, 2023

Yup, 3 months before either one of my clowns even realized the Nem was in the tank. Now one of them never leaves it. The other one still has no clue.

blaxsun · Jul 23, 2023

1112-425XL said:
Yup, 3 months before either one of my clowns even realized the Nem was in the tank. Now one of them never leaves it. The other one still has no clue.

Once they go shag carpet they never go back...

Anemone_Fanatic · Jul 23, 2023

I'm going to stand up for the clowns here. In the wild, they settle into their anemones at less than 1/3" long. When we introduce captive raised clowns to their first anemone, they've already gotten 4x bigger. The poor things are confused. They didn't settle into an anemone at the time they normally would, so they don't know what to do. It isn't that the clowns are dumb, it's that breeders don't want to put anemones into the rearing tanks. I can't really blame them, imagine catching 200 tiny clowns out of a bunch of anemones.