My Bubble Tip Anenome is not hosting the anenome fish!?
 

Bought a nice Bubble Tip Anenome about 3 days ago, and so far, my True Percula Clown is not going anywhere near it. Does it take a few days for the anenome to decide to host it or is it possible it won't happen at all?:neutral:

Yes it may take time ... And yes it is very possible it wont happen at all.

here is a link to some pretty good information:

http://saltaquarium.about.com/od/ane...onematches.htm

My Oscellaris are hosting my Aussie Elegance and could care less about the GBTA about a foot away from them.

my clowns hosted my RBTA the very first day i got it! they love it, It can take some time for them to host, i heard if u put a picture up of a clown hosting an anemone it might help.

I have a pair of Gold Stripe Maroons who are hosting a GBTA in my SPS tank, they'll steal food from the tangs just to feed the anemone, sure is cool to watch. I have never tried the picture thing, I have yet to own a Clown who wouldn't host something.

You can't be serious re: putting up a picture??!!
 

Call me crazy, but.....

thats what i have heard. not saying it will work. lol but it is what i have heard from a couple different sources... Hell anything is worth a shot.

found this on another site... also talks about using pictures of clowns hosting. hope that helps.
http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/...lown-fish.html


(script from the tread)
personaly i have never had any luck with this till today. earilier this week i got a rbta and today i found a percula clown that had a partilly missing stripe, so i got him, hes cool. got em home and wanted him to host to the rbta. right? not to much to ask. so i cut the bottom of a 2 liter bottle off, placed it over the rbta with the clown in there to, no later than 30 seconds pass and hes in there. just to make sure i left the bottle on the for about ten minutes. now hours have gone by and hes still in there....so sweeeeeet

I'v seen the puttng up a picture method work on a pair of captive bred darwin clowns...

though whether it was the pic or the fish just deciding to go with it is virtually impossible to verify IMO.