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ElGuappo
12-30-2010, 10:15 PM
just curious to know what hosts are being used by clowns... i dont want to add a nem and my other clowns are hosting a toadstool but i dont want to add one of those either.. i have seen my clowns also host torches and frogspawn...

What are your clowns hosting in??????

muck
12-30-2010, 10:23 PM
Mine used a Maxi-Jet powerhead until i dropped a RBTA in my tank.

ponokareefer
12-30-2010, 10:36 PM
Some of mine like fuzzy mushrooms. I have seen some host in kenya trees, but not my own. I have also seen them host brain corals, but this is usually bad for the coral.

Chowder
12-30-2010, 10:40 PM
My Clowns host in my Gold Torch.

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t4/jkhchris/IMG_2968.jpg

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t4/jkhchris/IMG_2964.jpg

intarsiabox
12-30-2010, 10:43 PM
One of my clowns insists on hosting a rock of zoanthids and has been covered in black spots for over 2 years now. My other clowns are smarter.:lol:

Chowder
12-30-2010, 10:51 PM
Mine use to host in a huge Squamosa I had.

Doug
12-30-2010, 11:26 PM
Mine host in the 4in. pvc house they have lived in for almost 10yrs now. Seems all they like but then thats what they grew up with. Have you seen pics of Mike,s in his huge squamosa clam. The female even goes inside.

FishyFishy!
12-30-2010, 11:36 PM
GBTA in nano, and huge 10 head green Torch Coral in the 187.

freezetyle
12-31-2010, 05:29 AM
one of mine insists on hosting the overflow box.....

Magma
12-31-2010, 05:41 AM
mine dont host because they seem to be short bus special and dont understand what to do...

mind you there young and tank bred so they probably dont have the urges yet..

pirate
12-31-2010, 05:57 AM
Mine have taken to living in my leather finger. They like to sleep in it at night. I even have a GBTA but they like the leather finger better.

paddyob
12-31-2010, 06:16 AM
Mine host in the 4in. pvc house they have lived in for almost 10yrs now. Seems all they like but then thats what they grew up with. Have you seen pics of Mike,s in his huge squamosa clam. The female even goes inside.

Uhmmm.... please post the pics. This I would love to see!

soapy
12-31-2010, 06:16 AM
My clowns are camping out in a goniopora. We've had the goni for about a year and a half. The clowns started hosting their little party there about six months ago and the goni seems no worse for wear.

We also have a couple of nice GBTAs but the ocellaris clowns like the goni instead. They are captive raised and perhaps they do not know better. Plus I think I read somewhere that bubbletips weren't really one of their usual anemones.

Rogue951
12-31-2010, 07:43 AM
Mine will host in a GBTA, but usually only the larger of the 4 fit in there... when the BTA decides to close up they all move to the forest of xenia above it and hide in there... one loner likes to go to the fuzzy mushrooms on the opposite size of the tank.
during they day they'l play around in the extended hammer coral forest I got.

lol.

2pts
12-31-2010, 08:59 AM
My false perculas hang in my long tentacle anemone, my pink skunk clowns hang in my toadstool.

Tn23
12-31-2010, 09:27 AM
how long does it typically take for clowns to find something to host in or adapt to once they are introduced to a new tank?

Lampshade
12-31-2010, 12:12 PM
MIne where in Zoa's, they've recently just been staying in the top corner of the tank. Getting my eco-rock order this week, so hopefuly the new aquascaping lets them find a home?

Oscar
12-31-2010, 01:46 PM
Frogspawn for 2 1/2 years.

Doug
12-31-2010, 02:08 PM
Uhmmm.... please post the pics. This I would love to see!

I assume you mean Mike,s ? They are in his 150g thread. Perhaps I will ask him to post them later.

noirsphynx
12-31-2010, 02:53 PM
Until my carpet arrives they have taken up residence in a branching hammer.
http://i611.photobucket.com/albums/tt191/noirsphynx/DSC_0001-2.jpg

Skimmerking
12-31-2010, 03:17 PM
I assume you mean Mike,s ? They are in his 150g thread. Perhaps I will ask him to post them later.


OK OK OK here you go
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e122/asmodeus338/150%20MIXED%20INWALL/DSC04667-1.jpg
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e122/asmodeus338/150%20MIXED%20INWALL/DSC04668-1.jpg

ElGuappo
12-31-2010, 07:48 PM
in the clam is pretty sweet.... thanks for all the replys..i will have to think of what i want to put in this tank.. its only 20g with about 17 actual usable space... thanks again


mine dont host because they seem to be short bus special and dont understand what to do...

mind you there young and tank bred so they probably dont have the urges yet..

ya i had this issue with my perculas and i finally put a picture on the glass of two clowns hosting and they took to my torch and hairy mushrooms after that..

Magma
12-31-2010, 07:56 PM
tried the picture trick with them, when I put up the picture on the side of the tank, every fish in there moved to the opposite side of the tank and hid...so i tried another picture, smaller, same thing...

I did notice today that I woke up and one of them was inside the newly formed bubble tip, and his fins are all nipped *rolleyes* gonna be one of those days I think...

Doug
12-31-2010, 08:28 PM
http://96.31.86.198/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=41750&highlight=clown+eggs

This is the residence of mine. They have lived in there for over 9yrs. now. Not to mention several different tanks. Its now hidden behind the rock work in my 35g cube. It currently also has a fresh batch of eggs in it as we speak.

torrid_07
12-31-2010, 08:35 PM
mine have hosted in a zoa filled rock for about 2 years, they started out (both clowns) with the black spots, then they faded and i guess they became immune to it!

Wayne
01-01-2011, 12:33 AM
OK OK OK here you go
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e122/asmodeus338/150%20MIXED%20INWALL/DSC04667-1.jpg
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e122/asmodeus338/150%20MIXED%20INWALL/DSC04668-1.jpg


OMG That is AWESOME!!!! :razz:

Magma
01-01-2011, 07:53 AM
spoke to soon, came back tonight after a party and noticed my clowns where protecting the area which both of my GBTA's are, and after lights out the clowns didnt go to there normal area for sleeping...instead they are tucked away nicely in one of the GBTA's :D first time ever! hopefully this will be the start of them hosting the BTA for good :D

MikeInToronto
01-01-2011, 02:13 PM
Sorry for the peeve but: Anemones host clowns, not the other way around. The act of hosting is performed by the anemone (or powerhead, or coral, or whatever). Clownfishes don't "host in" anything. They are hosted by things.

My clowns are hosted by a LTA. I've had frogspawn, leather, and hammer corals act as surrogate hosts as well though never a powerhead.

soapy
01-01-2011, 04:12 PM
Sorry for the peeve but: Anemones host clowns, not the other way around. The act of hosting is performed by the anemone (or powerhead, or coral, or whatever). Clownfishes don't "host in" anything. They are hosted by things.

My clowns are hosted by a LTA. I've had frogspawn, leather, and hammer corals act as surrogate hosts as well though never a powerhead.

Language is fluid, get over it.

MikeInToronto
01-01-2011, 06:54 PM
Language is fluid, get over it.

:bored:

Cal_stir
01-01-2011, 07:43 PM
ours host a rock, and lay eggs regularly

bvlester
01-01-2011, 09:43 PM
my clowns hosted in a giant saddle carpet which was eating all fish in the tank as fast as it could catch them so I sold it. Then they hosted my hammer coral and now they have moved on to some small rock nem's that are very nice looking kind of look like a mini dark green BTA.

Bill

BlueTang<3
01-01-2011, 09:54 PM
I know its a anemone but thought i would share. They upgraded from the algae magnet they used to cherish.


http://i789.photobucket.com/albums/yy171/bluetang3/IMG_2078.jpghttp://i789.photobucket.com/albums/yy171/bluetang3/IMG_2077.jpghttp://i789.photobucket.com/albums/yy171/bluetang3/IMG_2076.jpg

http://i789.photobucket.com/albums/yy171/bluetang3/PC160001.jpg

Nebthet
01-07-2011, 05:33 AM
My two larger clowns trying to host in my small sebae. There is no way that either of them can fit in it together.. not for a while any ways.
http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/oo269/nebthet1/Saltwater2/55g%20Reef/host1-01-06-2011.jpg
http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/oo269/nebthet1/Saltwater2/55g%20Reef/host2-01-06-2011.jpg

mark
01-07-2011, 11:03 AM
don't have a nem for them but they made home in the Xenia.

fishytime
01-07-2011, 12:48 PM
^^^like this?
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o19/fishytime/Fishytime%202/IMGP1529.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o19/fishytime/Fishytime%202/IMGP1531.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o19/fishytime/Fishytime%202/IMGP1532.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o19/fishytime/Fishytime%202/IMGP1534.jpg