Hey guys, I just wanted to share an interesting thing my girl has recently started doing.
So a bit of back back story: this big tomato clown used to be in my main reef tank, but I had to banish her to her own tank because she was bullying everyone and everyTHING that passed her by. However, an anemone used to host her in the main tank and since then she's had no host, but I did buy her a fake anemone to see if she would take a liking to that one.
Fast forward a few months, I got really busy with some life events and kind of stopped taking care of the tank for a while so some hair algae grew at the top of the rocks. I was going to get rid of the algae, but since I have no corals or anything like that in there I just left it because I thought it looked interesting in the water current.
Well turns out she liked it too! She's completely ignoring the fake anemone I got her and instead now goes to the patch of hairgrass. I was originally going to scrape off all the algae so I could grow some GSP instead, but now I'll feel bad lol.
Just thought I'd share this because I've never seen a clown want algae as a host before. I knew they sometimes would go for corals, but I didn't know they liked algae too ahaha.
Side note, she didn't care for the algae until I put in a powerhead to put in some more water current in the tank. Maybe she just likes flowy things lol
So a bit of back back story: this big tomato clown used to be in my main reef tank, but I had to banish her to her own tank because she was bullying everyone and everyTHING that passed her by. However, an anemone used to host her in the main tank and since then she's had no host, but I did buy her a fake anemone to see if she would take a liking to that one.
Fast forward a few months, I got really busy with some life events and kind of stopped taking care of the tank for a while so some hair algae grew at the top of the rocks. I was going to get rid of the algae, but since I have no corals or anything like that in there I just left it because I thought it looked interesting in the water current.
Well turns out she liked it too! She's completely ignoring the fake anemone I got her and instead now goes to the patch of hairgrass. I was originally going to scrape off all the algae so I could grow some GSP instead, but now I'll feel bad lol.
Just thought I'd share this because I've never seen a clown want algae as a host before. I knew they sometimes would go for corals, but I didn't know they liked algae too ahaha.
Side note, she didn't care for the algae until I put in a powerhead to put in some more water current in the tank. Maybe she just likes flowy things lol
