Hosting? Need fish recs

Discussion in 'Tropical Fish' started by tidus10, Jun 27, 2011.

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  1. tidus10

    tidus10 Astrea Snail

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    I have a condy anemone and a bubble tip anemone and a few mushrooms. And my clowns only host on the mushrooms -_- so is there any other fish that may host in the other two anemones?
     
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  3. Reef4life

    Reef4life Feather Duster

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    I learned that Clowns will host where they feel like it. But I never seen them host in a condy before.
     
  4. tidus10

    tidus10 Astrea Snail

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    Mocha clown on the shroom..
     
  5. M-Ocean Man

    M-Ocean Man Flame Angel

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    What an odd selection given the available alternatives in your tank! But like others have posted they will be hosted by what they want, when they want. Tough to control that. And there are only a handful of species that will be hosted by such inverts - clowns are one such species.
     
  6. Coastie Reefer

    Coastie Reefer Millepora

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    mine really loves the heater knob!!!
     
  7. nc208082

    nc208082 Zoanthid

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    Clowns dont host, they are the guests staying over. The anemones host the parties for them or mushrooms in your case, try holding pics of clowns in nems, if they are aqua cultured it will be hard for them to know, also what type of clowns do you have only clarkii's and maroons will host pretty much anything, oc's and percs are much more picky
     
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  9. Corailline

    Corailline Super Moderator

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    Knowing clown fish it's any ones guess where they will reside. If you figure it out I suggest you go buy lottery tickets asap.

    You can try the old, clown fish being hosted by anemone image taped to the tank. A very strange method but gets a lot of reports of it working and usually pretty quickly. Some clown fish seem resistant or reluctant to reside in anemones, maybe they know something we do not.

    Good Luck.
     
  10. tidus10

    tidus10 Astrea Snail

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    But is there any other fish besides clowns that get hosted in anemones?
     
  11. Corailline

    Corailline Super Moderator

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    Domino Damsel, will take up with anemones, I have seen them in Condylactis as well, and it looks very cool, but they are one of more aggressive damsels.
     
  12. Va Reef

    Va Reef Giant Squid

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    Clowns are damselfish, people just put them in there own "section", my LFS has a blue devil hosting a gonipora.