Clowns found LTA, are they to muxh for it?

[loglew]

Ok, so I'm really excited that my clown took to my LTA after a couple of months of not paying it any attention. Now I'm a little worried that they are going to beat it to death. The black clown seems to be really rough. Please take a peek at the video and let me know if this is normal The clowns took to it about three days ago and the LTA has only been about a quarter of its normal size.

There is also a another strange thing going on in the take (150 gal) there has been three clowns in this tank for about 5 months now because of an emergency adoption of the bright orange clown in the video. The other clown is a orange ocellaris clown I believe, it has been hanging out on the back right corner of the tank for a few months now. The larger orange clown in the video will chase it when they make eye contact. But the black clown will hang out with both of them. (Like his Pimping)Is this abnormal behavior? Thanks for the help.

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[romsoccer12]

it sounds like the big orange one is pairing with the black one and is a female so is very aggressive and territorial to the other orange one. since the black one may be a male, sounds like hes just chilling with both of the females, pimpin! the clowns should be 1/3 of the LTA size, give it a couple more days and see if its still not opening all the way. it looks good in the vid. get the 3rd clown out

[loglew]

Here is a pic of the LTA before the clowns took over.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=346&pictureid=1851

[Slickcg33]

The anemone hasnt had any clowns in it for a while, its getting used to them beating it up. It may take a while but it should be fine, it appears large enough.

[loglew]

So today my LTA deflated and pulled its foot. That cant be good right? It has never moved in three months. What to do now?

[majikmike9999]

thats crazy, you try to get them to host only to have it be an issue

[jt_milstead]

As for the amount of clowns...If you dont get the 3rd and 4th out your gonna end up with 2 dead clowns most likely.
The clowns dont seem to be to aggressive to me. Ive seen my female Onyx Perc really pull on one of the nems tentacles before. As long as the nem doesnt got near overflow or power head I would let them all(nem/hosted pair of clowns) work it out.

[loglew]

So it's been about a week now since the clowns found their home. It was not very fun for me any way to have to watch my LTA suck in and pull its foot out of the sand. Any way it took it a couple days but it finally dug in and came back out only a couple inches from where it was. Not sure if the clowns made it move, or if it thought that it needed more light? Either way the LTA and the pair seem to both be doing really well now. The black clown who I'm guessing is the male clown has started to do a lot of shaking for the orange clown, hopefully good thing to come!

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