Gonipora and Toadstool hosting clowns

reefie · Aug 22, 2021

My two clowns seems to have found a new home in the gonipora and toadstool leather after the algae scrapper was hosting them. The two corals seems to be fine with it so far, but should I move them?

Waynerock · Aug 22, 2021

My clowns have lived in/terrorized my poor Goni’s for a couple years now. The corals either seem to take it and live with it or they die. They clowns won’t stop once they start unless they find something better. I hated it at first because I was super worried about my corals but I think it is way better looking than a clown fish in a nem. The Goni should be ok it might stay closed a little longer till it used to it the leather migh get irritated and slime up and add toxins in the water. It might not care

DeniableArc · Aug 22, 2021

reefie said:
My two clowns seems to have found a new home in the gonipora and toadstool leather after the algae scrapper was hosting them. The two corals seems to be fine with it so far, but should I move them?

My clown destroyed my torch then goni and as @Waynerock says the coral will either tolerate it or close up it just depends how aggressive the clown is.

kzenoni · Aug 22, 2021

Mine love my toadstool, let them be

DeniableArc · Aug 22, 2021

kzenoni said:
Mine love my toadstool, let them be

That’s great! The toadstool doesn’t mind and the clowns are happy.

anthonygf · Aug 22, 2021

My clowns have been living in my Colt for 3-4 years. Last year I had to remove all rocks and corals for aiptasia that got out of control, you can see some on the rock in first photo. Had to cut and frag many corals due to the aiptasia growing between the polyps. That was October, since then I am pest free but my Colt has been shrinking ever since. I hope it recovers from the setback and a small, short cycle. Everything is growing better now except the Colt and Duncans. Thankfully my clam was unaffected by this ordeal.