How to get clowns to host

[Aidan_823]

Hi, I have recently went to ReefAPalooza and came back with 2 rose bubble tips and a hybrid bubble tip (I don’t know what the hybrid is) I just want my clowns to start hosting them asap. How would I introduce the BTA to the clowns?

 

[tinyfellows]

My clowns took over a year to find my bta

 

[WrasseyReefer]

My clowns never hosted my anemone. They only hosted my giant Goni.

 

[Jekyl]

Mine took every internet trick you can find and 2 years before any of my multiple nems would host the clowns. For all the trouble they bite me any time my hand is in the tank.

 

[OrionN]

….and a hybrid bubble tip (I don’t know what the hybrid is)…..

There is no hybrid BTA. Only very few BTA reproduced sexually in captivity that I know about.
I guess they mean a rose anemone that is not too red in coloration.
Pictures please love to see them.

 

[Reefer Matt]

Hi, I have recently went to ReefAPalooza and came back with 2 rose bubble tips and a hybrid bubble tip (I don’t know what the hybrid is) I just want my clowns to start hosting them asap. How would I introduce the BTA to the clowns?

Hey there! It's hit or miss sometimes with clowns and anemones. Usually patience and luck are required. I suggest not forcing them into the anemone, and let them discover it for themselves for best success.

 

[The_Paradox]

It’s always so weird to me that people care where their clownfish sleep. Mine spend about a third of the time being hosted by an anemone, and the rest sleeping on top of the cleaning magnet.

 

[shadow_k]

Mine sleep where they please , the actually host my zoas they seem happy in there so I just leave it lol

 

[WrasseyReefer]

It’s always so weird to me that people care where their clownfish sleep. Mine spend about a third of the time being hosted by an anemone, and the rest sleeping on top of the cleaning magnet.

I understand. I think people just have this idea (probably from finding nemo) that clowns would look cool if they hosted an anemone and would be happier. But I also don’t think it matters. My clowns seem perfectly happy without hosting an anemone.

 

[WrasseyReefer]

Mine sleep where they please , the actually host my zoas they seem happy in there so I just leave it lol

Are those Houdini zoas at the bottom? They look very similar to my Houdini zoas.

 

[shadow_k]

Are those Houdini zoas at the bottom? They look very similar to my Houdini zoas.

There magician Palythoas !

 

[juke59]

Hi, I have recently went to ReefAPalooza and came back with 2 rose bubble tips and a hybrid bubble tip (I don’t know what the hybrid is) I just want my clowns to start hosting them asap. How would I introduce the BTA to the clowns?

i got mine to host in about a week. at night i would catch her in a net then use a rubber glove on my hand and make her swim out of my hand into the nem. after doing this for 5 days she was curious about it. then finally found her sleeping in my nem one morning. about 5 days after that my male followed suit and started to mess with my nem

 

[WrasseyReefer]

There magician Palythoas !

Oh, interesting. They don’t look like palythoas I’ve seen before. Cool.

 

[argiBK]

What worked for me was to wait until lights out and then to spotlight the anemone with a flashlight; Oscellaris + Sebae. The clowns swam right into it.

 

[WrasseyReefer]

There magician Palythoas !

Here are my Houdini zoas that look similar.

 

[WrasseyReefer]

There magician Palythoas !

I looked them up, and they look so much like zoas even though they’re palys! I have some palythoa, but they’re super cup like. So interesting!

 

[shadow_k]

Here are my Houdini zoas that look similar.

 

[CamoFan]

It's really all about luck and patience. Sometimes they may never get hosted by the anemone and sometimes they are. There are some tricks to maybe speed it up, but I would just let it happen naturally.

My mocha storm clown was messing with my RBTA yesterday. It got a little sting and then flashed once or twice on the rocks. She decided to then just brush her fins against it. I think that once she explores it more, she'll warm up to it.

 

[littlefoxx]

Hi, I have recently went to ReefAPalooza and came back with 2 rose bubble tips and a hybrid bubble tip (I don’t know what the hybrid is) I just want my clowns to start hosting them asap. How would I introduce the BTA to the clowns?

You could try turning the flow off and putting the nem in the spot the clowns hang, just be aware they walk around and might not stay. With mine Ive got several green BTAs and I just put them in the tank and both pairs of my clowns (maroons in one tank and davinci/frostbite pair in the other tank) took to it in about a week.

 

[littlefoxx]

Hi, I have recently went to ReefAPalooza and came back with 2 rose bubble tips and a hybrid bubble tip (I don’t know what the hybrid is) I just want my clowns to start hosting them asap. How would I introduce the BTA to the clowns?

Here are mine