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09-24-2003, 04:43 PM
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Interesting Clown hosting
Here is a picture of my Tomato Clown who has adopted this Sarcophyton as an alternate host. He hangs around under the leather, and does not bother it at all. I have never heard of this combination before. Has anyone else seen this?
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09-24-2003, 05:16 PM
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09-24-2003, 05:50 PM
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Nope - but I see that their new "clownfish alternate host of the week" is Xenia.
http://www.garf.org/xeniahost/xeniahost.html Last time I checked it was sarcs though...
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09-25-2003, 01:11 AM
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My two clowns (now Rasta's) originally hosted in my Toadstool Leather. They moved to the BTA about a year after it was introduced into the tank.
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09-25-2003, 01:26 AM
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To this day,
my clown jumps into anything and everything that goes into my tank! my branching frogspawn!  My Green hairy mushroom  and more mushrooms!  the camera! .. No matter what i got to pull the camera out for .. he jumps into the dam way!! 
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09-25-2003, 08:15 AM
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Clown's will take up anything for a surogate host when no anenomes are present. This is my female taking up res. in the brain. The male hangs out in a feather duster or between the branches of a trumpet coral.
Great image Bob! Cheers, Rich 
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09-25-2003, 06:39 PM
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I have heard that captive-bred clowns are more likely to do this. My wild-caught Amphirion polymnus pair don't go near my frogspawn (basically the only thing in the tank similar to an anemone). Hopefully though they will soon have a real anemone to host in.
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09-25-2003, 06:48 PM
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Hi Quinn,
I don't know how old your clowns are but my clowns are two years old, and they just started to venture into the brain and trumpet corals about 6 months ago. Before this time, they simply used the rockwork in the tank for protection. IMO I think clowns are picky about there host, however once they find one that's suitable then there are content to stay. That's why they don't need anenomes, because after some time almost anything will do. Cheers, Rich
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