anemones and clown fish

[kimmy]

um...how long have the saddlebacks been in there? they may fight with perc's. your best bet would be to try a pair of skunk clowns, very docile and will host. I had a pair host a seabe within 5 minutes! My current perc's completly ignore my BTA, one hosts' a rock of zoa's and the other was trying to host a clam and killed it! Now it's wandering aimlessly...

[MTips18]

i had a false clown from petco i got a lta and within in a week it was all over it, clown fish continue to break the norm, i have heard they can't be kept with more than one other clown fish unless its a mate but you go to the pet store and see "wild caught" clown swimming around together

[geekdafied]

clownfish do not have to have an anemone, they will readily host in just about anything, even a flowerpot. Flower pots are used by breeders cause clowns like to lay their eggs on a smooth surface.

[suckafishtankcleaning]

my blacks have now taken to my open brain, even now that my BTA is in stinging distance from the brain [of corse the BTA had to move almost on top of the brain, because there is not spot to move the brain too] but i have heard of alot clowns moving into flowerpots it seems to be a favorite with tank rasied

[nemo1991]

yeah well my blacks and my other clowns loved each other! they gae been together for a couple months and the blacks host a carpet anemone, and the orange ones had hosted a frogspawn until it died : /

but the little black clown died : / today

[wareagle35031]

They will host the side of the glass, the sand, torch coral, hammer coral, frogspawn, just about anything. Some just take longer than others, and i read somewhere, that you can place the anemone in a small plastic bowl, ane then add the clown to it for a little bit and they will start hosting, but do some more research before trying that.

[suckafishtankcleaning]

Originally Posted by nemo1991

yeah well my blacks and my other clowns loved each other! they gae been together for a couple months and the blacks host a carpet anemone, and the orange ones had hosted a frogspawn until it died : /

but the little black clown died : / today

sorry to hear that

[chalmies19832002]

I have heard nothing about false percs taking to LTA, I just added one and I really hope they will take to it. Luna what do you think