BTA and clown fish...

[ReeferChick85]

I just got a BTA about 2-3 weeks ago and wanted to know if there is any way to get my 2 clown fishes to host it? I don't know if they even know it's there lol. Any advice or ideas would be appreciated! Thanks in advance!

 

[furfeet26]

If you have moonlighting, I shined my moonlights only at the anemone at night, and eventually they took to it. GOod luck!!

 

[ReeferChick85]

Thanks for the reply! Yea I have moonlights and it does shine on it but the clowns sleep in the bottom corner of my tank still. I wish they would host it since I got it just for them

 

[furfeet26]

I've also heard that when you feed them, target feed the clowns into the anemone. Not 100% sure. Hope it helps! =)

 

[toomuch420]

they will eventually sometimes it can take months

 

[MikeGilliland]

ive heard if you put them all in a breeders net for a couple days they will, or ive also heard if you tape a picture of a lion fish or other predator on the tank they will go to the nem for protection.

 

[rayray]

It took 6 months for my captive bred oscillaris to nest in my captive bread RBTA. I even put half frozen blocks of mysis in the anemonae, but it just took time.
When they did go inside, the female started breeding non-stop. Really awesome!

 

[ReeferChick85]

Thanks for the reply everyone! I guess i'm going to try to wait it out for awhile and hopefully they find their way to the bta. Here's a pic of my nem. It hasn't moved at all since I placed it there and seems to love where he's at so hopefully my clowns will host it soon

 

[clown2be]

trade your clowns in for new ones.

 

[rayray]

What kind of clowfish do you have?

A few articles suggest feeding the BTA at least every other day. I feed silversides 3 nights a week. My clowns just make way for the temporary house guest and somehow stay asleep inside while avoiding the gaping oral disk devouring the silverside.

 

[gumbii]

you shouldn't try to feed that nem until it colors back up...


depending on what type of clowns, they might never host the anemone... ocellaris and percula are known for this... especially percula... they rather host a magfloat or a montipora cap than a nem... idiots...

also, they aren't native to each other... in the ocean they usually host corals since they are usually found in the reefs... only the ones in tide pools and such are known to host nems, and again, it depends on the fish itself... maybe that's all it had to host in the tide pool...



i know premna go nuts for E. quadricolor and some amphiprion like skunk clowns...

 

[ReeferChick85]

trade your clowns in for new ones.

LOL. I don't think I can ever give my fishes away unless I needed to

What kind of clowfish do you have?

A few articles suggest feeding the BTA at least every other day. I feed silversides 3 nights a week. My clowns just make way for the temporary house guest and somehow stay asleep inside while avoiding the gaping oral disk devouring the silverside.

I have just some regular orange perculas. Just like Nemo . I do feed my BTA every other night with a cube of mysis. I'll try the silversides tho just to mix it up. I'm hoping my clowns will someday host it

 

[ReeferChick85]

you shouldn't try to feed that nem until it colors back up...


depending on what type of clowns, they might never host the anemone... ocellaris and percula are known for this... especially percula... they rather host a magfloat or a montipora cap than a nem... idiots...

also, they aren't native to each other... in the ocean they usually host corals since they are usually found in the reefs... only the ones in tide pools and such are known to host nems, and again, it depends on the fish itself... maybe that's all it had to host in the tide pool...



i know premna go nuts for E. quadricolor and some amphiprion like skunk clowns...

Oh really? Does it looked bleached out or something? I didn't know that.


Well since I have perculas then I guess I'll be crossing my fingers and toes that they host this BTA . They don't host anything really in my tank. I even put in some softies like a toadstool and my neon green nepthea. Also tried a torch but nothing LOL.

 

[gumbii]

Oh really? Does it looked bleached out or something? I didn't know that.


Well since I have perculas then I guess I'll be crossing my fingers and toes that they host this BTA . They don't host anything really in my tank. I even put in some softies like a toadstool and my neon green nepthea. Also tried a torch but nothing LOL.

my naked clowns hosted this huge orange monti cap for like ever in my tank... now i have a bunch of LPS and they just chill on some duncans... weirdos... my friend has a percula that host his mag float... LOL...

and yes, it looks a bit bleached, but full at the same time... you can tell you feed it... when they're bubbled up like that, it means it has food in it's belly... when the tentacles stretch out and look stringy, it's trying to catch food... the silversides are great, but it will make it grow pretty fast if you feed every other day... RBTA are the largest of E. quadricolor there is... they get twice as big as a normal green BTA...

there's a possibility that by you feeding it, you are letting it stay bleached... it's getting it's food from you instead of it's algae... it's okay for it, but it's still not considered a healthy anemone... if the water fluctuates or anything, it will eat up it's tentacles, move around a lot, or melt... mainly because it's not helping itself to eat... so it doesn't survive on it's own... get what i'm saying...?

RBTA aren't supposed to be see thru... or neon pink... that's not their species... they didn't look like that in the ocean, they shouldn't look like that in our tanks... they should be a solid color... you don't see many corals other than cryptic corals with clear flesh on it's body...

also... all E. quadricolor, like most anemones; are high light... you can't keep them if you have low par PC or VHO lights... they will just bleach up and starve...

 

[FOSELONE]

woah...thats nice Kat :top: whered you get that :questionmark: :questionmark: :questionmark:

 

[kingrb]

the sure way to get them to host....
should have pulled the clownfish out and placed them into the container when you were acclimating the BTA, the fish freak out and hide in or under the BTA, because they have no place to go, then place them back into the tank and the clowns will know it's a safe place to hangout.

If you can? i recommend pulling the BTA out and the clowns and place them in a bucket for 30 minutes.

 

[danagui]

Depending on the clowns you have they may not take to it. I know that tomato and ocelis clowns will host it but skunk clowns wont

 

[gumbii]

Depending on the clowns you have they may not take to it. I know that tomato and ocelis clowns will host it but skunk clowns wont

i have had skunks in the past... they will host any anemone, even condilactus...

 

[james-lee]

I know its not a anemone but it took my clowns 4 months to host my pink FS.

 

[ReeferChick85]

my naked clowns hosted this huge orange monti cap for like ever in my tank... now i have a bunch of LPS and they just chill on some duncans... weirdos... my friend has a percula that host his mag float... LOL...

and yes, it looks a bit bleached, but full at the same time... you can tell you feed it... when they're bubbled up like that, it means it has food in it's belly... when the tentacles stretch out and look stringy, it's trying to catch food... the silversides are great, but it will make it grow pretty fast if you feed every other day... RBTA are the largest of E. quadricolor there is... they get twice as big as a normal green BTA...

there's a possibility that by you feeding it, you are letting it stay bleached... it's getting it's food from you instead of it's algae... it's okay for it, but it's still not considered a healthy anemone... if the water fluctuates or anything, it will eat up it's tentacles, move around a lot, or melt... mainly because it's not helping itself to eat... so it doesn't survive on it's own... get what i'm saying...?

RBTA aren't supposed to be see thru... or neon pink... that's not their species... they didn't look like that in the ocean, they shouldn't look like that in our tanks... they should be a solid color... you don't see many corals other than cryptic corals with clear flesh on it's body...

also... all E. quadricolor, like most anemones; are high light... you can't keep them if you have low par PC or VHO lights... they will just bleach up and starve...

Well thanks for all this info Gumbii!! I'll let it be for a few days and not feed it and see how it goes. I think my lighting for it is sufficient enough and it's happy where it's at in my tank so far. My lighting is ATI Sunpower 6x54w module. It does look a little bleached and I hope it gets darker eventually Most of all I hope my clowns host it...weirdos like the sand instead lol!!