Clowns and Anemone

My baby Clowns and their new home:

Info:
- a pair of Amphiprion Ocellaris
- Entacmaea quadricolor

 

Cool! Nice videos.

Congratulations on the hosting... not everyone is so lucky, unfortunately. Did the clowns go to the nem when it was added, or did it take some time?

 

They went straight away.

There is a trick I thought of myself. Put the new anemone in a big enough size bowl, then bring the two clown fish from the tank to the bowl. Make sure the bowl is not too big, but just enough to cover the anemone. Because there was no other place to go, the clowns will be attracted to the anemone, and most probably, will pick it as their home quickly. Once you saw both of them stay inside, bring the anemone and the clowns together back to the tank. I can't guarantee this will work 100% all the time, but it worked for me.

 

Ill have to keep my wife from seeing this... How cool!!

 

Beautiful Anemone and Clowns.

Caution when exposing clowns to anemones using that method, a young clown that has not developed the mucous layer needed to prevent the anemone from discharging nematocyst is just like any other fish, food for the anemone.

 

+1 110%

The clown's "immunity" is not a natural-born attribute, it's acquired. Obviously yours had already been hosted before.

 

There is something magic to see the interaction between Clowns and Anemone, especially Bubble Tip Anemone. They are just so beautiful.

Yes, for the method above to work quickly, the Clowns should be adapted to the Anemone sting before. Otherwise you need to let the Clowns to slowly begins to adapt to living in a stinging Anemone by making quick contacts with its tentacles. Most sea creatures have a protective mucus or slime coating. The clownfish will begin mixing the slime of the anemone, which has stinging cells, with its own skin slime. However if this is the first time for the fish, it would take a few days for the fish to stay longer and longer among the anemone’s tentacles until all of its slime is completely mixed with the anemone’s.

 

Very cute! The smaller one seems particularly excited