Do You Have Alot of Clownfish Experience?

[Sohal Tang]

I would appreciate feedback from anyone that has alot of experience with clownfish.....

I have a pair of true percs and I put a rose anenome in
with them 3 days ago.... It is a small anenome in good condition.....they are in good condition...no problems....

However, they are hosting in my gorgeous flourescent
precious candycane coral that I adore.... It is not opening
full because of it and I am worried they will kill it....They have
not found the anenome yet and if they have they have ignored
it so far....

#1 do you think they will find it and change hosting locations?
#2 do you think that they are settled and will now stay in the
candycane?

#3 is it necessary to remove the candycane?

Any and all input welcome.

Thanks for your help

Tim.

[tankies]

ahh..this is derek and hubert's territory

[calvin328]

I had the same issue... I moved the candycane to the other end of the tank (where they seemed to do alot better anyhow) and the clown found a new home in a lbta!! think he would swim further than 8"!?!? lol
HTH
:cheers:

[vaporize]

I hope you did your research before you purchase, I didn't either LOL (for this one) ^_^

BTA is not the natural host for your true percula clownfish, so it is VERY natural that they do not realize that it can be a host for them. Natural host are most likely some kind of carpet, haddoni and gigantea carpet is highly likely. Especially the "Indo black percula" that we got, I am starting to see an hypothesis that most of them actually take gigantea carpet as host. Having said that, I am not asking you to go out and buy a gigantea carpet for them as they are level 3 anemones (in terms of difficulty), if your tank can support one, a haddoni would be the best bet.

So would a true percula take a BTA as a host? Yes, I went out of my way to go out and purchase a GBTA for my true percula put them both into a barebottom empty QT with only heater/pot/sponge filter. The true percula did not take a single look at that "host" and just swim by, took maybe 2 days for it to find it and finally settled in today. But hey, in my case that GBTA is like 1/3 of that 10G QT size, so it is really not hard for it to find it.
[DISCLAIMER: for anybody that is reading about BTA & QT, this is NOT the recommended way of quarantining your clownfish; so do not do it unless you know what you are doing.]

So to better answer your main concern .... i.e. that candy cane, remove it until your clownfish find that dinky RBTA. Probability? highly unlikely :) But there's always hope, once they touch it, they will recognise the touch. But do take true percs a bit longer to get use to BTAs though comparing to something like a Maroon that is its natural host.

[Sohal Tang]

I knew about that anenome not being ideal for the percs.....I also know that a magnifica
they will go straight into....but....hard to find a healthy magnifica these days....
The guy selling rose told me the percs will host in it...I figured 36 gallon should be no brainer for them to find it...but...but...they just lovvvve this candycane.
I will try removing the cane and storing it at my buddy's place then...and see what happens.....

Thanks.

Tim


Dear MODS : I put this post in REEF DISCUSSION because it was my candycane CORAL that I was
worried about..not the clownfish...

[jpdutton]

Maybe you should just give the Candy Cane to me :D

[JoeWalsh]

Mine aren't true Percs but what I had to do was swap the RBTA in to the exact same spot as the coral they were molesting at the time... They pestered a beutiful green torch to death, and that was the one spot in the tank the torch seemed to be happy also... It seems that anything I put in that spot would become their host, so I put the RBTA there and let them get used to it, once they were happy with the 'nem then I started moving it about 3" at a time to where I thought it would be happiest.

They've been together and happy for about 6 months now.

J