bravoreefer Posted August 19, 2004 Share Posted August 19, 2004 What will a clown host excluding Anemones. I really don't want to try and put an anemone in my MB7, but would really enjoy seeing my clown host something. What have you people heard/experienced with Clowns hosting other corals etc? Please list type of Clown and what it was hosting. Thank you! Link to comment
pyrrhus Posted August 19, 2004 Share Posted August 19, 2004 large rics, hell ive even seen clowns, and im not kidding here, host in the fins of a lionfish, seriously. also hair algae, sarcophyton, euphyllia, plate corals, lots of different stuff. Link to comment
SDA619 Posted August 19, 2004 Share Posted August 19, 2004 mine in my goniopora... hell torches, frogs hammer ive seen them in large xenias... usually go for tentacly things IMO. Link to comment
Dr. Saltwater Posted August 19, 2004 Share Posted August 19, 2004 Clowns will host almost anything when they found it. Other than anemones are for example: - Goniopora-corals (Goniopora stokesi = most common) - Toadstool leather (Sarcophyton glaucum) - Clams (Tridacna maxima = rare but can happen) Clowns often host things with (longer) tetacles and it should be big enough to swim in and around. Sometimes clowns even 'host' the top of the powerheads in a tank ... Link to comment
wisoot Posted August 19, 2004 Share Posted August 19, 2004 Mine hosts buttton polyps. They are kind of long because i have a low light tank. Link to comment
djtodd Posted August 19, 2004 Share Posted August 19, 2004 My late Clown hosted in a folded brain. There's a picture posted here somewhere if you do a search. Link to comment
impur Posted August 19, 2004 Share Posted August 19, 2004 My clown hosts the snail guard for my float switch :/ Link to comment
BustytheSnowMaam Posted August 19, 2004 Share Posted August 19, 2004 Hi, Mine are tank-born- and tank-raised clowns aren't as likely to host but when they do they host w/ a wider variety than wild clowns. Mine reside in a toadstool leather but only at night. Tasha Link to comment
TiGs Posted August 19, 2004 Share Posted August 19, 2004 My ocellaris were hosted by mushrooms. Link to comment
oldtimer Posted August 19, 2004 Share Posted August 19, 2004 Give them a clown car and see what they pick up. Link to comment
ferry_007 Posted August 19, 2004 Share Posted August 19, 2004 mine host my feather duster....not very normal...cuz my feather duster retracts when it feels the slightest touch...but loves to be rubed on my the clown and seems to enjoy it. Link to comment
Upright Joe Posted August 19, 2004 Share Posted August 19, 2004 Mine seem to have taken to the upper intake on my nano cube. Link to comment
jackass Posted August 19, 2004 Share Posted August 19, 2004 mine hosted the sand bed... Link to comment
twkenny Posted August 19, 2004 Share Posted August 19, 2004 Mine are tank raised..I don't think they know what "hosting" is!!! Link to comment
corriewf Posted August 19, 2004 Share Posted August 19, 2004 Mine host my hand.Its really wierd cause when I stick my hands in tank the clown attacks anything that comes cloase to my hand.I got a bodyguard when im cleaning the tank Link to comment
bravoreefer Posted August 19, 2004 Author Share Posted August 19, 2004 Ha, I have to oppisite when I clean my cichlid tank, my Ice Blue Zebra bites me. I hope that my ocellaris clown Host some coral some day. What would an ocellaris most likely host? Or is it just hit and miss with all of these oddities? Link to comment
reefer21 Posted August 19, 2004 Share Posted August 19, 2004 lol a powerhead, now thats just plain retarted. Link to comment
mccorkell Posted August 20, 2004 Share Posted August 20, 2004 Mine hosts a power head, candy cane coral, green stripe mushrooms and rarely the rbta. ??Its beyond me?????? Link to comment
Dr. Saltwater Posted August 20, 2004 Share Posted August 20, 2004 That's because RBTA's aren't percs 'natural hostanemone' too! Only larger anemones as the Heteractis magnifica. Link to comment
Doc Shake Posted August 20, 2004 Share Posted August 20, 2004 And a powerhead is an natural hoast??? Link to comment
vangvace Posted August 20, 2004 Share Posted August 20, 2004 Mine liked to hang out in my T. Derasa during the day... but I think he became dinner last night for a ricordia:( Link to comment
scd Posted August 20, 2004 Share Posted August 20, 2004 My tank bred ocellaris has hosted in 2 things in the 5 years I have had him... 1st a GBTA for the 3 years or so the anemone lived and now he hosts among a few colonies of candycane coral I have. At night he sleeps in a cave. With the anemone, he slept in it. I don't think I would ever add an anemone again though... Three years is just too short for an animal that can live for decades + in the wild. Link to comment
Kool-cat Posted August 20, 2004 Share Posted August 20, 2004 MY percula clown host my pinkish greenish bta. Link to comment
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