Clarkii clowns hosting rock anemone

Anyone ever seen this happen before?

 

Clowns are funny fishs they will reside in just about anything including zoas, frogspawn, hammer coral, clams and many others but its kind of neat to see them in diff nems.

Also Welcome to 3reef

 

Thanks! I also check out a couple other reef forums but this one seems most active so far!

 

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i'm sure you are about to get many posts with all of the many objects that are hosting clowns.

 

I have a rock anemone and have had clowns none of which hosted it. I had heard they wouldn't hosted so this is very cool

 

Yeah there is alot of great people here and many very well educated in the reef aspect of things enjoy

 

I was just curious because on other forums people have said this is unnatural and I should make sure the anemone doesnt harm the clown.

I took the pictures last night, and when I woke up this morning the clown was still there. Some of the pictures are actually taken of the reflection off of back glass because its in the back of the tank.

I even fed the anemone about 20 minutes before pictures were taken. The tank is also a 20g btw.

 

Welcome to 3reef,

Clarkii clown fish are pretty aggressive about residing in anemones. They are not picky and reside in anemones that do not host them naturally. There probably is some risk that the anemone will consume the fish.

Good luck

 

I really hope the anemone doesnt eat him! I fed the anemone for the first time in about a week last night so he may have been hungry but didnt eat the clarkii.

It is kind of funny because the bigger of the two picks on the smaller one, but at night the smaller one goes to the anemone and the bigger one looks lonely all night.

 

The larger clown is normally the female.