question about a clown fish

[raedwards]

Hello...i have a small clown fish that keeps trying to host a colony of mushrooms and he has for the past few weeks, i bought an anemone for them but still no luck. will this hurt my clown fish or do i just let him keep this up...please let me know as i cant find any info on this. Thanks

 

[Scampy]

Mine host a big red shroom. Never seen any damage to the fish but the shroom isnt the happiest. As for hosting a nem,some never do it at all. I've heard of people puting a pic on the side of the tank of a clown in a nem thinking they learn from it. I heard others who skip a feeding and on the next one they squirt food with a turkey baster into the nem and the clowns go in to eat and realize it's not so bad. When they associate the nem with food they dont want to leave. Cant tell you if they work or not but its something to think about.

 

[thatguy559]

what kind of anemone did you buy? they only host certain types but as far as the mushrooms go they will be fine and so will your clown. mine hosted a 36 head frogspawn and a 6" rbta

 

[Faciosity]

I have an ocellaris that first hosted my torch coral, and then for a long time lived in the trachyphyllia brain. I bought an RBTA and he never seemed interested, so I moved the brain on the opposite side of the anemone, and when he went looking for his brain, he found the RBTA and has lived there ever since.

 

[pblutang]

I bought a clown and a GBTA from my LFS. The clown was in the anemone so I pretty much bought them as a pair. The GBTA found its happy place in the back of the rocks so this clown never goes by it. I put an RBTA in my tank that found its happy place on the front display side of the rocks and the clown now hosts the RBTA. I am hoping the GBTA will come out to the front display. Just wondering if the clown will end up hosting both.

 

[raedwards]

Hey...thanks for all of your help and all, i dont know what type of anemone it is, i bought it from a reef frontier member here in spokane area. it is a green looking type of an anemone, that does not like to be out in the open, hides a lot and always on the move. the clowns have checked it out buy thats just about all they have done. Thanks

 

[frag_addict]

should be fine. google the book entitled clownfish...i have it its good.