Well it finally happened

[bbearden101]

well after a few tries with another nem I went to the lfs and traded for the same type just was playing in a nem at the store as well, and needless to say it worked in getting a clown to host in my bta. Question being the other is a semi Picasso or that's what Petco called it do you think it will follow the other in hosting or am I just out of luck getting them both to host? Can a clownfish be traumatized from a past experience with a nem and not ever try and host again? I would love to learn more about their personalities but I struggle to find some of my questions scrolling threw google. Sorry for the page but I'm excited about my clown finally hosting and am curious about the other

 

[ndz98]

From what I've heard it can take awhile for a clown to host an anemone. So maybe just give it some time.

On an unrelated topic, is that a little stuffed clown fish in your tank to the right of those pictures?

 

[bbearden101]

Lol it's one of them glow in the dark decoys I got it in the beginning thinking I could trick them. No success buuut about 4 hrs into this I now successfully have 2 hosting clownfish

 

[bbearden101]

I put another so people won't think it's just laying there dead no lie I've been struggling to get this semi Picasso to host for I think a little over a month maybe longer. Swapped my normal oscaleris out with another I seen actually hosting and 4hrs later. Probly the simplest solution to a aggravating scenario I have been doing alot of research trying to figure out why it wouldn't even go in the same area as the anemone I guess it just needed a friend that would

 

[ndz98]

Oh I gotcha lol. Glad that he finally hosted your anemone though!

 

[hybridazn]

The larger clown in question appears to be a snowflake ocellaris clown. The semi Picasso clowns that were from ORA were percula's.

 

[bbearden101]

Thank you and me too lol it's been pretty frustrating but I guess their like dogs if you can get one to do it the other will follow

 

[bbearden101]

I'll see if I can find a better picture of him and maybe you can help me I'd I've been told snowflake before and compared images of both like I said Petco sold it to me as a semi Picasso but it is Petco,

 

[bbearden101]

she's the one on the top. The best picture I have sorry I just use my phone

 

[bbearden101]

She's got a Mohawk (easiest way I can think to describe it) aswell I don't know if this matters but my smaller clown doesn't have it

 

[hybridazn]

Ocellaris clowns typically have 11 spines on top, but on some rare occurances will have 10 like a perc. And the black around the white markings are more pronounced on a perc. The semi Picasso name usually means the middle bar white and some of the tail bar run together, I have a semi Picasso that also does this. I'll try and get a pic tomorrow for you.

The middle marking of yours looks like a snowflake, along with not having much black around its bars.

 

[bbearden101]

So it should have bolder lines along with some more black on the orange? This is what I figured out from Google but it's hard to know if them are the right fish or not