anemone that should not be hosted

[Doc]

false p. clowns. today they hosted in the carpet and are also bitting it while they lay there.

Bitting it and tanking chunks out? Or cleaning it?

I have a large green carpet now that takes 4" feeders down with ease but has also hosted 5 or 6 false percs. they just know. I hold the feeder within about 4 inches and just wait, the carpet will reel up and snatch it and away it goes. Balls up and about 2 hours later....it's sprawling back out.

 

[frontosa_man]

not taking chunks out mabey it is cleaning it. it looks more like sucking on it.

 

[managuense-fury]

agree

 

[bluedempsey]

agree

agree with what?

 

[hyphen]

my tomato clown is being hosted by my condy. she took to it immediately after being acclimated. i even removed her and the other fish for hyposalinity treatment after an inch outbreak. after putting them all back in she went straight for the condy again.

it was a slow process. the clown nipped at the tentacles, slowly getting used to it. after a while of nipping it began rubbing and then it was inside.

the reason for the condy not being good hosts (the anemones hosts the clownfish, not the other way around), is because they're not from the same areas as clowns are. condys are from the atlantic, clowns from the pacific. and while it happens in captivity, it doesn't happen too often. the anemones generally don't know how to react to a clown thats attempting to make a new home. and it reacts as it normally would, as a predator. which is why so many people lose their clowns to condys. anyway, here's mine:

 

[bluedempsey]

that was very well said.
the only clown that i have ever seen host in a condy are: maroon, tomato.
also very nice picture.