What corals will clownfish host in?

[BestMomEver]

Your the cutest!! My breeder clowns just laid their 4th clutch of eggs . Gotta let the eggs go as im firing up the 660g and transferring everything over. Here are the clowns with shrooms and toadstool

Mine lay every few weeks and have been for a long time. I dreamed last night that I saw baby clowns in the tank. A few of them made it. Too bad it was only a dream!

 

[nkyreef]

Mine were hosting a candy cane. It bummed me out because they wore about 6 months of tissue growth away. Luckily they abandoned it when I upgraded to my larger tank. They've shown interest in my RBTA now which is kinda cool.

 

[nkyreef]

double post

 

[rknott]

+1 on candy cane. I have had 2 different clowns over the last 7 years and the7 both picked the same candy cane despite numerous other choices including the aforementioned frogspawn and a hammer.

 

[aquaman67]

My clowns host in my overgrown toadstools

 

[William Norman]

Mine stay in a conch shell.

 

[ChuckD76]

I got xenia specifically for my pair after their LTA tried to host an mp10.

 

[ChuckD76]

I got xenia specifically for my pair after their LTA tried to host an mp10.

 

[BryanD]

Mine does in the mass of Mushrooms you can see in my picture.

 

[AZRipp]

I had a pair that hosted a isolated rock covered in GSP. They were quite beautiful in it. It's never happened again.

 

[MombasaLionfish]

Mine would host my feather duster causing it to be closed half the time.

 

[living_tribunal]

Mine host hair algae/return nozzle on the back left side of my tank

 

[gray808]

Clowns will be hosted by whatever they decide. (powerheads, corals, corner of tank....)

I have no corals yet (first order goes out today), but my clowns live in the back left corner of my tank. They've made a little depression in the sand, and there is a good sized shell nearby that they snuggle up to.

--Gray

 

[Speaker]

Mine like my finger leather.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Clownfish are dumb - they’ll hang out in a stick of dynamite
Mine favor rainbow anemone, hairy mushroom, hammer coral, elegance, devil hand leather and toadstool

 

[Mike from TN]

Saw somewhere, maybe here on this forum that they can be taught to develop a “relationship” with corals by looping a video for them to watch of corals hosting clowns.
I thought it sounded silly but decided to give it a try today. I have a 12 head Frogspawn and a pair of Snowflakes.
I played a video over and over for about an hour (6min video). Well, they haven’t gone into the coral BUT, they seem to like watching the video. Every time I looked, they were just hovering and looking at the iPad on the other side of the glass. I’m gonna keep trying and see what happens. They are not too bright so we’ll just see what happens.

 

[gray808]

I've heard of something similar, but possibly easier:
Wait until the tank is dark at night, then beam a small tight-beam flashlight on the coral/nem/whatever you're trying to get it to host.

--Gray

 

[WiscoFishNut]

My storm clown recently decided a goni is as good as a nem lol. Eventually I hope to add a nem, but the tank has a long ways to go yet.

 

[Mike from TN]

I've heard of something similar, but possibly easier:
Wait until the tank is dark at night, then beam a small tight-beam flashlight on the coral/nem/whatever you're trying to get it to host.

--Gray

Worth a try. They look pretty stooooopid cuddling up to the Mag Float!
LOL!

 

[OrionN]

I often give my clowns a threat. I use a stick or two with a fairly large heads and herd the clowns with it toward a natural host. They go in in a few minutes.
becareful with Haddoni, Gigantea and M doreensis. These anemone have been known to eat in acclimated clowns.