My New Carpet Anemone.
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lmannan
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very perrrty!!!!!!!!
very perrrty!!!!!!!!
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Peppie
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Very Cool
Hows that carpet doing Imannan?
lmannan
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It got in a war with my BTA I was so sad. But I have a new one that is doing very well. I will never put a carpet in with a BTA again. Was a horrible mistake. Thanks for asking though sorry about the late response. I was very upset about its death so im getting over it now that my new one is doing well since the BTA is out of the tank.
I was so sad. But I have a new one that is doing very well. I will never put a carpet in with a BTA again. Was a horrible mistake. Thanks for asking though sorry about the late response. I was very upset about its death so im getting over it now that my new one is doing well since the BTA is out of the tank.
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miguelspuerto
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Nice I WTB a one or two carpet anemones does anyone know who has one for sale ? Thanks
pandora32
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It took nearly 3 months before my new pair of clowns took to rbta. Give them time, they will come around.
shinv
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You'd better training them. I trained my clowns only one time when I first got a RBTA, after that they never leave the anemone
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You'd better training them. I trained my clowns only one time when I first got a RBTA, after that they never leave the anemone
How do you "train" your clowns to enter an anemone?
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shinv
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Place your anemone in a breeder box, then put your clowns into this box. Don't take them out of tank. Just big enough for anemone and clowns, clowns can still swim.
Turn all of lights off, then shine a flashlight with strong but small light (I use a flashlight pen) direct to one of clowns' eyes for couple minutes, then move the light to the anemone very slowly. The clown should swim with the light to the anemone. Do this couple of times, then the clown should know where's home
If the clown swim back, try to shine longer.
The room better be completely dark.
The Clowns are easy to catch when they are sleeping
This kind of flashlight I use
shinv
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I've coaxed my clowns into nems by squirting thawed cubes of food into the anemones so the clowns head in to eat. But I never tried to speed up acclimation with the haddoni that I had. They have been known to eat unwary clowns. I would suggest patience with that one. Beautiful carpet! I'm setting up my 45 tonight and hope to house a haddoni or a magnifica (or both This thread sealed the deal for me.
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Place your anemone in a breeder box, then put your clowns into this box. Don't take them out of tank. Just big enough for anemone and clowns, clowns can still swim.
Turn all of lights off, then shine a flashlight with strong but small light (I use a flashlight pen) direct to one of clowns' eyes for couple minutes, then move the light to the anemone very slowly. The clown should swim with the light to the anemone. Do this couple of times, then the clown should know where's home
If the clown swim back, try to shine longer.
The room better be completely dark.
The Clowns are easy to catch when they are sleeping
This kind of flashlight I use
If you're going to put both the anemone and the clowns in the breeder box, why bother with the flashlight?
If its just the anemone and the clowns in the breeder box, the clowns know the anemone is there.
The exact mechanism of how clowns become immune to the anemone isnt known, but its hypothesized that the clowns may need time to acclimate to an anemone, especially one of the Stichodactlya species. There are recorded incidents of Stichodactlya species anemones, (usually haddoni) eating clownfish that have been newly introduced to them.
Obviously in your case it worked, but its not something I would reccomend.
I would suggest that if you're going to introduce clownfish to an anemone, that you do it carefully on the off chance that the anemone is actually either not a species that usually hosts clowns, or that the clowns havent had time to get acclimated to it, however, they do it.
Placing clowns and the anemone in a breeder basket would usually work, but you do run the risk of losing clowns. You also run the risk of losing the anemone if its poor health. Clowns can be rough on anemone's and more anemones are killed by being weakend due to shipping stress, and then being introduced to exuberant and sometimes rough clowns, than clowns being eaten by anemone's.
Best bet is to allow the anemone to get settled in the tank and let the clowns find it. If its a healthy anemone, and of a species that they usually associate with, they will eventually find the anemone and settle in. If its a type of anemone the clowns are not associated with in the wild, and the clowns are captive bred, it may take awhile, but the clowns almost always end up finding the anemone and hanging out in it.
Nick
