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brett559
09/10/2015, 03:41 PM
Just curious how long your clownfish took to host in a bubble-tip anemone. I've got a real nice true perc / black occ pair that are showing ZERO interest in my RBTA. The anemone is healthy and really doing well, and they swim near it all the time, but nothing yet.

For some it takes years, some days, sometimes never. Just curious, how long your clowns took.

Dkuhlmann
09/10/2015, 04:04 PM
My True Percula pair is just now occasionally looking at my 3 BTA's. Might soon be 4 one looks like it's going to split.

This has been going on for 5 or 6 months them not hardly looking at them. Some never do as Perculas and Occy's aren't natural hosts of the BTA.

So my fingers are still crossed. I wanted to keep a peaceful tank so I got the Perculas. I may get to the point where I trade them in on a Maroon pair and I happen to know where I can get a pair tonight if I wanted to. But I like this pair and the are about as perfectly matched as you can find.

Fraggedmind
09/10/2015, 04:11 PM
Depends on how you introduce them IME. I had a pair of maroon's and a pair of false perc's host almost instantly.

brett559
09/10/2015, 04:16 PM
This video is pretty cool:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7pGnlGdP-E

I was under the impression that trying to coax them to the nem was (a) unlikely to work and (b) not a good idea as it would just stress them out.

Oh well. At least their "spot" is on the same side of the tank as the nem.....

campos
09/10/2015, 04:19 PM
some right away some never it really depends

hotelbravo
09/10/2015, 04:48 PM
My ocellaris and percula pair went straight into my rbta right away

ca1ore
09/10/2015, 06:06 PM
Never did. Added a magnifica ...... seconds.

E Rosewater
09/10/2015, 08:44 PM
My percs never went near my BTA. My maroons within minutes. If it's not a natural pair they may never host.

tsunade
09/11/2015, 07:03 AM
my 2 clowns never host any RBTA i have until I put in a carpet anemone. They love the haddoni carpet so much, they folllow the stupid carpet when that carpet walks into the over flow. they all stuck in there, took me 30 mins to pull them out. Since then the clowns will host whatever they can host - frogspawn, hammer, xenia, zoa :)

Dkuhlmann
09/11/2015, 07:22 AM
I'm in the process of feeding up my nems they are still a bit small for my clown pair. But once they are big enough I've got a buddy that has a clear tube I'm going to try.

Dkuhlmann
09/11/2015, 07:36 AM
My percs never went near my BTA. My maroons within minutes. If it's not a natural pair they may never host.

I was wanting a peaceful tank with the Perculas. If they don't get busy with my nems I'm going to trade them in on a pair of maroons. I think the maroons are much more appealing in their body shape and colors.

TuckerB
09/11/2015, 07:49 AM
I have two fancy snow flake clowns tank breed the larger of the two about 1 1/4 inches was in bta in two days the smaller one never goes in it.

Dkuhlmann
09/11/2015, 07:50 AM
Depends on how you introduce them IME. I had a pair of maroon's and a pair of false perc's host almost instantly.

And how do you introduce them?

ginpang
09/11/2015, 08:54 AM
5 minutes... They just naturally went to scout it out .The clowns we're residents before the anemone and not the other way around... Don't know if this matters!?
They liked it so much that the first bubble tip was too small for them and they stressed it out and killed it . I had to get a second one about 3x the size.

joshkirkland83
09/11/2015, 09:19 AM
I have a HUGE female and regular size male for 12 years. It usually takes a couple of days, but the female has hosted all my nems to death. I got a 10inch magnifca, it's the only one that has held up.

brett559
09/11/2015, 11:01 AM
Thanks for the responses. Maybe the nem needs to get grow a little more. My last tank it took them a few weeks.

brett559
09/17/2015, 03:46 PM
Still nothing. RBTA is doing well - fingers crossed they make the leap some day.

ozmedic80
09/17/2015, 08:05 PM
my oscallaris went for the BTAs straight away, they hang about in the them sometimes.

I am pretty sure they bonded though, feeding time for the BTAs can be fun, as the female clown can be very aggressive, nipping at you to get you away from them.
mind you, they also play around in the gonis and torches as well

Relaxoreef
09/18/2015, 11:06 AM
Took an hour after putting the tomato in the tank. She was already hosting in another bta when I bought her, so maybe I cheated.

jdemarco
09/25/2015, 09:04 AM
keep the faith, it took me so long to have happen that even now, years later, I still very much enjoy and appreciate it, daily. its totally cool. as u are aware "types" of clowns and "wild vs captive bred" and type of nem etc etc etc does play a role.......i have 2 sets of mochas in their separate RBTAs

Bent
09/25/2015, 06:15 PM
Going on 2.5 months and my oscii has not looked twice at my 3 btas.

jdemarco
09/25/2015, 09:12 PM
I think for those who really want it but haven't had it happen, it makes sense to buy clowns that are hosting already. I find it a good sign of things to come and more likely they will desire to host your nem at home if they are at least hosting something already in your LFS. Even if that something happens to be a coral...,Duncan, Goni, torch, softy , etc etc.

Bent
09/25/2015, 09:16 PM
I've heard that a mates pair have higher chance of finding a host. I've been tempted to buy another oscii...

Sapelo
09/26/2015, 06:49 AM
In my 90 gallon, my pair of Ocellaris took about a week to accept a Sebae (which they are not supposed to want...sigh...thanks lack of knowledge on my part and even more so on the part of my LFS). After a tragic Trigger VS. Snail VS. Nem event (don't ask), I added a BTA to my 300 gallon. Same pair of clowns. They, however, have decided that they prefer the Duncan to the Nem. I'm still hopeful but this is two months in and they've shown no interest. On the plus side, the nem is doing very well. On the downside, I don't think a pair of clowns are what the Duncan had in mind. I may well have to remove it if the love fest does not subside.

Dkuhlmann
09/26/2015, 06:51 AM
Sapelo, moving the Duncan for a while so the clowns will switch to your new anemone is a great idea

reeferstace
09/26/2015, 03:28 PM
Clowns don't host anemones. Some anemones may host clowns.

LobsterOfJustice
09/27/2015, 08:22 AM
The entire time I've been in the hobby, through all the moves and upgrades, I have always had both occelaris clowns and BTAs in my display tank - and none have ever shown any interest. They just pick a corner of the tank to hang out in.

I have a percula in my refugium and he took to a BTAs within a week... eventually the BTA got eaten by a powerhead.

ratienza80
09/27/2015, 05:35 PM
You just have to let nature take its course. My 2 occellaris doesn't even look at my BTA or h. magnifica!

shifty51008
09/27/2015, 08:35 PM
Mine ocy's took 9 months to finally go in my rbta's

brett559
10/14/2015, 11:54 AM
Still nothing...

JuJuMan16
10/14/2015, 10:09 PM
My Davincis hosted it overnight after I got the RBTA. They were in it for months before I got tired of re-arranging the tank from the RBTA moving. It did not stop moving for 10 months, every few weeks at a time. Got stuck in the powerheads several times. They have been hosting my flowerpot for like a year now.
I know how you feel though...

brett559
10/15/2015, 03:28 PM
What I'd like to say to my clowns:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8pvD_4Pd1A

brett559
10/20/2015, 12:15 PM
Yay!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PorGGpRZrc

It was crazy. I just happened to have been watching the tank. It swam closer, closer, closer, and then was in. The black occi isn't sure yet, though....

brett559
10/20/2015, 12:45 PM
Huh....

Now the true perc seems to NOT want the occi in the nem. I was under the impression the perc is the male, the occi the dominant female. Any chance the perc will share the space over time?

Cincyreef
10/20/2015, 12:57 PM
Did they finally just go in, or did you convince them somehow? Mine haven't shown any interest in my BTA for almost a full year now. It's slightly annoying lol, but I know it's also not their natural host as they're perculas.

brett559
10/20/2015, 01:02 PM
I did nothing. The perc just decided to do it.