Anemone / Captive clown question

[Flash]

Originally Posted by daniella3d

Excuse me...but I have a sebae and my occelaris took only 3 days to go in it and after a few days she would not leave it and was sleeping in it.

He has a long tentacles anemone. I had 2 clownfish previously and got a long tentacles and they never tried to host it, even after 3 months. I sold these 2 occelaris and the long tentacles and got 2 tank raised black ice occelaris and a sebae and they hosted it very fast.

Here is a video of my black ice in the sebae anemone:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aZR2...yer_detailpage

you always have such a delightful tone when you write on these forums... try some respect for people.

not all clowns will host. I have had 4 different sets. 1 hosted my torch, another my open brain and two other refuse to host in anything. you can't force a fish to do something, it's either going to do it or not... so "excuse me" for my response to your opinion.

as for the original post, give the clowns time. I just added a new amazing milk anenome and they are curious, but won't fully go in it... it's a waiting game!!

- FLASH

[Coralgurl]

I've had 2 sets of clowns that have looked for hosts. My first 2 (black and white with the orange fins...sorry for not knowing their names), started trying to host my bubble coral. Bought a seabae nem and they were in it within 10 mins - I unfortunately lost the clowns and nem. My current clowns are seabae clowns and they are hosting my frogspawn along with my porcelain crab. Recently, I've noticed them wiggling in my brain coral. Once they move to the bigger tank, I will try another anenome for them. One thing I've noticed with these clowns is how territorial they are over the frogspawn and tend to only hang out by it. The original clown we had (jumped), didn't host anything and was quite active in the tank.

[daniella3d]

why don't you try it yourself?

Originally Posted by Flash

try some respect for people.

[Reefie]

I've had 3 different pairs of clowns, first pair were True Percs, second pair were False Percs, and third pair are Black & White Ocellaris. NONE of them hosted a single BTA.

I even tried a Haddoni Carpet, which died on me, it was kind of gaping when I bought it. Don't ask me why I still bought it even though I had thought it was gaping a bit. My LFS handled it very well and refunded me the $150 right away.

So......moral of the story is that NOT all clowns will host. IF they do, it could be anywhere from minutes to days to weeks to years.