Pairing a mated clown pair with a rbta

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  1. keifer905

    keifer905 Peppermint Shrimp

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    Soon i am going to try to pair a naked clown and a black and white ocellaris clown together. I have a rough idea on how to do this, but does anyone have any tips that might help? The BandW has been alone for a while, so i am getting a juvie naked clown.
    Also, once the pair is established, how do i get them into an rbta? Do they do it on their own?
     
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  3. mcfarrow

    mcfarrow Skunk Shrimp

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    just make sure your naked is smaller and sit back and wait for the magic to begin.
     
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    Crimson Ghost Blue Ringed Angel

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  5. keifer905

    keifer905 Peppermint Shrimp

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    wow thanks i didnt know percularis were possible
     
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    blackraven1425 Giant Squid

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    They'll usually be hosted by the RBTA fairly quickly, if they will host at all. Some occelaris won't host in BTAs without something showing them they can host in it, like a picture of occelaris clowns in a BTA taped to the aquarium. The occelaris you have and are getting (extremely likely) aren't from the wild, so it's likely they'll need a reminder of how to host in a nem.

    I got a pair of true percs yesterday, and within an hour they decided against the plate coral and were in the torch coral, just to give you an idea of speed.
     
  7. MoJoe

    MoJoe Dragon Wrasse

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    sounds like a good plan, as others mentioned, just make sure one is larger than the other, it will become the female of the pair.

    I had two clowns and an RBTA and my clowns never looked twice at it, I tried the picture method for weeks, no luck. They hosted my hairy mushroom rock instead. So I ended up buying another pair of smaller BW clowns and tried the picture method with them also, no luck again. Finally one day I found a nice GBTA at the LFS and got it. A few days after it settled it's foot I found one of my BW clowns sleeping in it. I kept that clown and got another orange Ocellaris and that's my remaining pair in the tank.

    Here's a pic, you can see my huge RBTA and then the clowns fighting over the small GBTA in back, sometimes it makes no sense on why they don't host the larger RBTA, it's so hit or miss:
     

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  9. keifer905

    keifer905 Peppermint Shrimp

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    awesome my bandw doesnt host anything yet
     
  10. keifer905

    keifer905 Peppermint Shrimp

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    would it be okay to add the anemone and the clown at the same time cuz theres a deal on a site i worry that one may get to the nem faster and kill the other when he got near it