My clown finally found the anemone!!!

crashrat · 07/15/2008, 06:55 PM

After 6 months my tank raised clown found the anemone, I was just curious how long it took others.

chrismunn · 07/15/2008, 07:00 PM

it took my clown about 1 hour...

hyndu · 07/15/2008, 07:27 PM

I have a mated pair, 1 swam right to it the other decided to wander around the tank all night getting beat up by my sailfin until it found it in the morning

stagefright13 · 07/15/2008, 07:45 PM

Mine went right away 2

crashrat · 07/15/2008, 09:09 PM

hummmmm, maybe I have some "Special needs" clowns.

drparker · 07/15/2008, 09:34 PM

I had tank raised clowns in both tanks long before I added the nems. Took one pair 3 days the other 3.5 weeks.

stagefright13 · 07/16/2008, 01:22 AM

Different species Clowns are different. Clarki's like I have will host to my moving finger in the water practically lol. And they are tank raised. But when I had a Percula it did host with A BTA but took a few days.

And every fish is different of course. So ya never know.

corbett_n · 07/16/2008, 06:36 AM

it took my Tomato about 10 minutes to find my BTA

2frosty4u · 07/16/2008, 06:45 AM

I added a RBTA three months ago. After a month it split so now I have two and my Ocellaris clowns still haven't found them.

ande · 07/16/2008, 06:56 AM

It took my female ocellaris about 1 year to associate with an anemone. The male never made it to the anemone (not sure if that was his choice or the female's choice). Now that I got rid of the anemone they both associate with some mushrooms. My clowns are tank raised.

FlyinggFish · 07/16/2008, 07:15 AM

It took my Clark's Clown a night - I put the anemone in in the afternoon.

guppychao · 07/16/2008, 11:52 AM

it took my percula almost a year to host a RBTA.

Reeftanks6 · 07/16/2008, 11:54 AM

it took my two tomato clowns about 2 seconds.

IridescentLily · 07/16/2008, 12:07 PM

It took my pair maybe a minute tops.

d3rryc · 07/16/2008, 12:31 PM

I had a pair of false percs. It took one of them three months to finally host in my LTA. The second one never did take to the anemone. Go figure...

GSMguy · 07/16/2008, 12:37 PM

1 day for tank raised percula

dcombs44 · 07/16/2008, 01:21 PM

I'm working on 6 months with my pair of false percs and rbta.

jubjub · 07/16/2008, 03:05 PM

took my false perc's about 1.5months to host my RBTA.....although i noticed my smaller perc wouldnt host.....then one day i found the big perc kind of beat up..and the smaller perc hosting lol..

Flavum · 07/16/2008, 03:33 PM

6 months!! ahh I just added an anemone about a week ago and there checking it out but have not gotten in it yet....I hope it doesnt take months.

I was honestly hoping that it would take minutes.

davocean · 07/16/2008, 03:54 PM

It so varies w/ diff clowns, IME maroons, clarks, and pinks pretty much dive right in, others may take a while or never.
Helps to have a natural hosting nem for that species.

davocean · 07/16/2008, 04:16 PM

Here's how bad my maroon wanted a host, wouldn't even leave my hand!LOL

SALT WATER CRAZ · 07/16/2008, 04:19 PM

with in a day.

2frosty4u · 07/18/2008, 10:29 PM

My reef is set up as an island layout and my clowns host in my Hairy mushrooms on the front with my two anemones being 6 inches away on the back side. The clowns cant find them since they never move more than 3 inches from their present home.

Apercula · 07/18/2008, 11:20 PM

After 4 months in my tank, my female A. percula found a torch coral, of course that was the day before I pulled all my fish to QT because I had an ich outbreak.
Upon return to the tank it took her 3 more months to decide she wanted my feather dusters as a host.
After about 2 more months she accidently swam into my Long Tentacle Anemone chasing a food chunk, and has been in it ever since.

Avgou · 07/19/2008, 12:37 AM

After a few days i was fed up with my juvenile yellow stripe maroon to stop swimming at the top of the tank as if it was trapped in the current.

I decided to take my feeder baster and "bated" my maroon with food with a trail of the food leading all the way to the BTA.

It worked like a charm, it was as if the maroon got stung and went into a paralyzed state for a moment and then BAM!!! the maroon couldn't get away from the anemone.

It was one of the coolest thing I've seen with the tank...other than witnessing the maroon take a dead hermit crab and give it to the BTA...

If you bate him, he will host...

07/15/2008, 06:55 PM	#1
crashrat Registered Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Rochester, MN Posts: 551	My clown finally found the anemone!!! After 6 months my tank raised clown found the anemone, I was just curious how long it took others.

07/15/2008, 07:00 PM	#2
chrismunn Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Austin, Texas Posts: 4,200	it took my clown about 1 hour... __________________ Marine Aquarists Association of South Texas Austin Reef Club PBITAWA... Current Tank Info: 14g bio cube

07/15/2008, 09:09 PM	#5
crashrat Registered Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Rochester, MN Posts: 551	hummmmm, maybe I have some "Special needs" clowns. __________________ Kevin Current Tank Info: 75 Gal Mixed LPS, SPS, Tek T5 6 bulb, 20 gal sump, MSX200

07/16/2008, 06:45 AM	#9
2frosty4u Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Posts: 745	I added a RBTA three months ago. After a month it split so now I have two and my Ocellaris clowns still haven't found them. __________________ A small fish in a big aquarium

07/16/2008, 07:15 AM	#11
FlyinggFish Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Ft. Lauderdale Posts: 1,042	It took my Clark's Clown a night - I put the anemone in in the afternoon. __________________ Most women buy clothes, I buy corals Current Tank Info: Biocube 29

07/15/2008, 07:27 PM	#3
hyndu Moved On Join Date: May 2007 Location: G-ville, FL Posts: 70	I have a mated pair, 1 swam right to it the other decided to wander around the tank all night getting beat up by my sailfin until it found it in the morning

07/15/2008, 07:45 PM	#4
stagefright13 Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Hatboro, PA USA Posts: 899	Mine went right away 2

07/15/2008, 09:34 PM	#6
drparker Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Palatine, IL Posts: 2,652	I had tank raised clowns in both tanks long before I added the nems. Took one pair 3 days the other 3.5 weeks.

07/16/2008, 01:22 AM	#7
stagefright13 Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Hatboro, PA USA Posts: 899	Different species Clowns are different. Clarki's like I have will host to my moving finger in the water practically lol. And they are tank raised. But when I had a Percula it did host with A BTA but took a few days. And every fish is different of course. So ya never know.

07/16/2008, 06:36 AM	#8
corbett_n Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: SC Posts: 1,271	it took my Tomato about 10 minutes to find my BTA

07/16/2008, 06:56 AM	#10
ande Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Las Vegas Posts: 20	It took my female ocellaris about 1 year to associate with an anemone. The male never made it to the anemone (not sure if that was his choice or the female's choice). Now that I got rid of the anemone they both associate with some mushrooms. My clowns are tank raised.

07/16/2008, 11:52 AM	#12
guppychao Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: MD Posts: 130	it took my percula almost a year to host a RBTA. __________________ were just 2 lost souls swimming in a fish bowl

07/16/2008, 11:54 AM	#13
Reeftanks6 Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: PA Posts: 3,857	it took my two tomato clowns about 2 seconds. __________________ 110g Reef build in progress Current Tank Info: 110 Gallon Reef

07/16/2008, 12:07 PM	#14
IridescentLily Editor-Reefkeeping mag Join Date: May 2008 Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico Posts: 3,858 Blog Entries: 5	It took my pair maybe a minute tops. __________________ ~April Editor-Reefkeeping Magazine

07/16/2008, 12:31 PM	#15
d3rryc Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Cedar Park, TX Posts: 213	I had a pair of false percs. It took one of them three months to finally host in my LTA. The second one never did take to the anemone. Go figure...

07/16/2008, 12:37 PM	#16
GSMguy Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northern New Mexico Posts: 17,420	1 day for tank raised percula __________________ Nick. Conehead. Shallow Reef club. Current Tank Info: 48"x27"x14" Envision Acrylic rimless, 6x39w ATi Sunpower, Custom ATB Deluxe Skimmer, 4x tunze nano stream,ATB flowstar 1500, ACJR, Tunze osmolator.

07/16/2008, 01:21 PM	#17
dcombs44 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Southern Illinois Posts: 2,913	I'm working on 6 months with my pair of false percs and rbta. __________________ Current Setup: 10 Gallon Skimmerless Zoanthid Tank Lighting: Single 175 Watt Metal Halide (14,000 K Hamilton Lamp) Filtration: 10 gallon sump/refugium and Phosban Reactor Return: Mag Drive 700 Controller: ReefKeeper Lite (Basic Version) Circulation: TBD Age of System: Build is in Progress

07/16/2008, 03:05 PM	#18
jubjub Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: vacaville, cali Posts: 2,698	took my false perc's about 1.5months to host my RBTA.....although i noticed my smaller perc wouldnt host.....then one day i found the big perc kind of beat up..and the smaller perc hosting lol.. __________________ "The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence." - Abu Ala Al-Maari

07/16/2008, 03:33 PM	#19
Flavum Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Knox, TN Posts: 728	6 months!! ahh I just added an anemone about a week ago and there checking it out but have not gotten in it yet....I hope it doesnt take months. I was honestly hoping that it would take minutes. __________________ Good guys, bad guys Which is which? The white collar worker Or the digger of the ditch? Man, who's to say who's the better man? I'm doing the very best I can Best I can - Minor Threat

07/16/2008, 03:54 PM	#20
davocean Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 14,655	It so varies w/ diff clowns, IME maroons, clarks, and pinks pretty much dive right in, others may take a while or never. Helps to have a natural hosting nem for that species. __________________ There's a fine line between owning your tank and your tank owning you! Current Tank Info: SCA 120g RR Starfire, Tunze silence 1073.02 return, 40g sump w/ fuge, SWC Extreme 160 cone skimmer,Geismann reflexx 4xT5, 2x Panorama Pro LED strips, Vortech MP40QD

07/16/2008, 04:16 PM	#21
davocean Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 14,655	Here's how bad my maroon wanted a host, wouldn't even leave my hand!LOL __________________ There's a fine line between owning your tank and your tank owning you! Current Tank Info: SCA 120g RR Starfire, Tunze silence 1073.02 return, 40g sump w/ fuge, SWC Extreme 160 cone skimmer,Geismann reflexx 4xT5, 2x Panorama Pro LED strips, Vortech MP40QD

07/16/2008, 04:19 PM	#22
SALT WATER CRAZ Registered Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: michigan Posts: 872	with in a day.

07/18/2008, 10:29 PM	#23
2frosty4u Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Posts: 745	My reef is set up as an island layout and my clowns host in my Hairy mushrooms on the front with my two anemones being 6 inches away on the back side. The clowns cant find them since they never move more than 3 inches from their present home. __________________ A small fish in a big aquarium

07/18/2008, 11:20 PM	#24
Apercula Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Ohio Posts: 707	After 4 months in my tank, my female A. percula found a torch coral, of course that was the day before I pulled all my fish to QT because I had an ich outbreak. Upon return to the tank it took her 3 more months to decide she wanted my feather dusters as a host. After about 2 more months she accidently swam into my Long Tentacle Anemone chasing a food chunk, and has been in it ever since.

07/19/2008, 12:37 AM	#25
Avgou Premium Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Western Mass Posts: 170	After a few days i was fed up with my juvenile yellow stripe maroon to stop swimming at the top of the tank as if it was trapped in the current. I decided to take my feeder baster and "bated" my maroon with food with a trail of the food leading all the way to the BTA. It worked like a charm, it was as if the maroon got stung and went into a paralyzed state for a moment and then BAM!!! the maroon couldn't get away from the anemone. It was one of the coolest thing I've seen with the tank...other than witnessing the maroon take a dead hermit crab and give it to the BTA... If you bate him, he will host...