Clown trying to host my bubble?

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  1. Puffer Chick

    Puffer Chick Giant Squid

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    my female clown is acting very strange tonight,i think she's trying to host my bubble coral she has been shoving her face inside the coral, like by the mouth and inbetween the bubbles, she has never done this before
     
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  3. Dingo

    Dingo Giant Squid

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    hmmm lucky you... my clowns wont host anything to save their lives
     
  4. Puffer Chick

    Puffer Chick Giant Squid

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    lol ii dont know why she has started this is the first time she's even gone near the bubble i wonder if this is just a random thing or fi she will actually contine. Actinics just went off and moonlights are on so now its time for her and the male to "dance" i wonder if she will go back to it once their done
     
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    Puffer Chick Giant Squid

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    well shes acting like she wants to go back to the bubble but it's almost closed up cause that's what it does at night but she's swimming right above it lol sooo not like her
     
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    One of my clowns tries to host with anything execpt the anenome! It tries with my leather toadstool, GSP's, he killed my frogspawn, he even tried to host with strings of cyno! (when I had it). Yet, I put a bubble tip and a sebae anenome, they ignored it! Go figure??

    Fasle percs by the way...
     
  7. ReefWizard

    ReefWizard Coral Banded Shrimp

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    Clown is very strange fish when it comes to hosting. They have instinct to host but don't usually know what to host. This is especially true for tank raised clowns. I've heard about clowns hosting zoas, mushroom, torch, frogspawn, leather, bubble, even tails and fins of other fish. Strange yet amazing.
     
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    Puffer Chick Giant Squid

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    hahaha clowns are soooo strange. She has left the bubble and has gone back to her normal sleeping corner, but now ive got the male clown swimming above the closed bubble.

    and you hah a false host corals?? im not sure if my guys are tank bred or not, but all i know is thier a pair of black and white misbar
     
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    ReefWizard Coral Banded Shrimp

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    Most likely tank bred by ORA.
     
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    Puffer Chick Giant Squid

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    and are they known to start out of no where like this, i've had had them for like 6 months and they were older when i bought them because they didnt have a orange fase. So maybe now that their getting older, their starting to get their clown instinct's, just so strange cause she has never done that before
     
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    ohhhh ok thanks for the ID :D