anemones and clown fish

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...

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

sorry to hear that

 

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