What have your clowns hosted?

[nivekid]

I'm setting up a 37 gallon tank and i'm considering getting a clown. I know i don' have the light for an anemone. I'm just curious to know what else any of your clowns have hosted.

[pandarider007]

mine try and host my alveopora but i scare it off so it doesnt hurt it. lol

[AC-WEB]

Mine was hosting a torch coral that was hurting him until I got him an rbta. Now he is happy and healthy.

[elegance coral]

I've had clowns host ich, internal parasites, and I even saw one at the LFS hosting an isopod. I've had LPS corals, mushrooms, and even a cave in the rocks host my clowns.:thumbsup:

[Trademark]

my clowns have always found the BTA's,, I have never had a problem no matter what clown it is. I currently have 7 tanks with a BTA in all of them and different clowns in each. B&W's,, Percs, Ocellaris, Platinums, Grade A Picassos',, and one tank with 9 4month old B&W's

[Trademark]

Your to funny EC

[DeadDuck]

Our clown has recently hosted in a Duncan coral.

[elegance coral]

Your to funny EC

I was just jokin.:clown:

[guppy74]

My GSM Clown is hosting a cave in the rock.

[aquaph8]

Frogspawn, Pagoda cup, xenia, pretty much anything they can think they're hiding in.

[fstar25]

My clowns home of choice is a softball sized brain coral. They refuse to even go near a BTA. Grrrr dumb clowns! Lol

[1fishkeeper]

I have had a powerhead, and a mag-float host mine when I never had a nem in my tank.

[samdaman]

Mine Host A Rare Maxi-jet Coral

[Antonais1391]

leathers, start polyps, zoas, palys, hammer, frogspawn and a heater lol theres a reason there called clowns

[nivekid]

Ha ha. Wow I was just interested to see what they would possibly host. Had no idea there would be this much variety. Very interesting.

[balto777]

Mine also host in a softball size brain coral. Throughout the day they hover near it and rub against it. The clowns protect it and won't let any other fish near it. After almost four years of hosting it, the brain coral has never been stressed or damaged.

Funny thing is, I thought it was supposed to be a beneficial attachment, with the clownfish bringing food to whatever it hosts. But my clownfish always steal away food from the brain coral, picking it out of its mouths when they are almost ready to be eaten. Sometimes I think my brain coral wished he had a gun - :uzi:.

Anyway, at night, my clowns go to the other side of the tank and also host in the "ultra rare" skimmer pump coral. I guess they feel more safe there then out in the open with the brain coral.

[WDLV]

Xenia, zooanthids, leather corals, hairy mushrooms, powerheads and....


http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e92/walterlaroque/5-2008/5-15-2008004.jpg

[ctlegacy]

I have a funny (OR NOT depending on who you are) hosting story. I have a 150 gallon aquarium that featured about 25 clown fish. Most of them were very small .75" - 1.25".

I one day started have a mass exodus of clown fish. They would literally VANISH from the tank. No dead bodies, pieces, bones, NOTHING. After losing 1-3 per day, I finally found the answer.

http://www.useleg.com/fish6.jpg

That is a live clown fish who tried to host to a patch of green button polyps. Mine are about the size of nickels and quarters. I believe them to be of the VENUS FLY TRAP variety. Appearantly when the clowns would try to host, the polyp would poison them, close up and eat them.

When I found this guy his gills were still moving so I tried to pull him out, but his back half was already partly digested.

So no more small clowns in my tank. I figure in all it probably got about 15 of them.

[Casy]

my pare of clownfish use a hairy mushroom colony! :)

[fin_wing]

Haha!
Mine has hosted algae.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1340&pictureid=16922

[Johnwayne]

mine also host a hairy mushroom along with everything but my anemones

[Sohal Tang Tim]

I had a pair of black percs that hosted in a fair size of Green Star Polyps.

They looked super with the black and orange against the green grass
background!

They would snuggle into it sometimes you could not see them the gsp
were so long and thick.....just like an anenome.....

for your consideration.

Black percs seem very easy to find now......and GSP are common.

Both a pretty hardy in my experience.

Good luck


Tim:beer: