chufa Posted May 22, 2003 Share Posted May 22, 2003 I had my ocellaris for 8 months. Since it is tank bred, it has not hosted with anything. I have had some LPS that are common alternative hosts for clownfish, and he's pretty much ignored them. Well, now I think he's found a "host". A cleaner shrimp! The clown is always swimming in and around and touching the shrimp's whiskers. The shrimp never cleans the clownfish, it just moves its whiskers around. Funny pair, indeed. Link to comment
Crakeur Posted May 22, 2003 Share Posted May 22, 2003 pictures chufa, pictures. sure is funnier than my perc that hosted with the water's surface (thus resulting in a final rub that landed it in a cup) or the percs that host on hob outflows and mag floats. Link to comment
FlyGTI Posted May 22, 2003 Share Posted May 22, 2003 You've sure got an emotionally clingy tank, chufa. That cleaner shrimp seemed to like to host on your forearm last time I saw him! Kind of the equivalent of a dog humping your leg? I had a clown that liked to live in a clump of frogspawn for a while, and then he decided to move into the green open brain that I've got. Then he went for a ride in the car and died. Link to comment
robertmun Posted May 22, 2003 Share Posted May 22, 2003 my new TR false perc is hosting with my powerhead. Link to comment
chvynva916 Posted May 22, 2003 Share Posted May 22, 2003 My sebae did the same thing with my peppermint shrimp before the shrimp died. Link to comment
TOgirl Posted May 27, 2003 Share Posted May 27, 2003 My percs love their powerhead as well. Their second choice would be the thermometer that's not far from the powerhead. Silly fish! Link to comment
Raise Posted May 27, 2003 Share Posted May 27, 2003 my damn perc likes the magfloat >8( Link to comment
chufa Posted June 2, 2003 Author Share Posted June 2, 2003 ok, here are some pics. Not very good, since he can't stop moving in and out those whiskers! Link to comment
Korbin Posted June 3, 2003 Share Posted June 3, 2003 Bwah! Whats that pinchy thing in the top right? Link to comment
chufa Posted June 3, 2003 Author Share Posted June 3, 2003 that's my common striped hermit doing some acrobatics ;-) Link to comment
caja Posted June 3, 2003 Share Posted June 3, 2003 Chufa that is an awesoeme pic. Hermie's catching some hang time there! My perc sleeps with his snuggly thermometer/powerhead combo at night and hangs out under the overhanging blue shrooms during the day or with his bud Osama bin Goby. Aren't percs the greatest? Link to comment
JPF Posted June 4, 2003 Share Posted June 4, 2003 My female tomato clown hosts in a specific patch of creeping xenia. Anyone else experience xenia hosting? Link to comment
lizbeth Posted June 4, 2003 Share Posted June 4, 2003 My male Clarkii hosts in a hole in the sand surrounded by Xenia frags...so I guess he kinda uses the xenia. What mine really want is an anemone. Link to comment
cal3v Posted June 4, 2003 Share Posted June 4, 2003 Cool guys, I have a couple percs, one hosts in a frogspawn and the other in a caulastrea or my crocea. Its pretty neat how odd these little guys are. BTW both were tank raised. Link to comment
LITTLEFISHEE Posted June 7, 2003 Share Posted June 7, 2003 Is there any way to coerce a clown to host? I have a TR clown and I've kept Ricordia, actinodiscus and discosoma shrooms. I've also tried hammer coral, GSP, yellow polyps and a fungia. None of which he notices. Does anyone know what else I can try? I love the relationship, but I didn't was a wild-caught fish. Link to comment
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