 Re: Hosting Dilemma
My 125 gal tank isn't big enough for my pair of tomato clowns (which is hosted by an anemone on one end of the tank) to have them leave any other type of clowns alone. They never move further than a few inches from their host, unless I put other clown in the tank. When that happens, they will swim to the other end of the tank and kill any other clown that I try adding.
Regarding tank bred clowns hosting, I have a pair of false percs that each host in their own anemone (in a different tank than the tomato clowns listed above). I got them to host by (don't laugh) taping a picture of clowns being hosted by a BTA onto the tank's glass by the anemone and within a week the one started hsoting and a week or two later, the other one found it's BTA.
BTW - I though that taping a picture of a percula clown being hosted by an anemone would never work when I first heard about it, but after having the clowns for 6+ months and they still weren't hosting, I thought that I'd give it a try and somehow it worked great.  |