Hi guys, and welcome to my thread on my method of introducing a clown fish to an anemone. I'm making this thread because I haven't seen a good way to get an anemone to host clown fish that is both safe and effective. The most popular method that I have read about involves putting the anemone and clown fish in a small container outside of the tank which forces them to touch each other. Unfortunately this method can be extremely stressful for both the clown and anemone, and I have even heard stories of clowns getting eaten by the anemones they were forced into. When I bought my RBTA I even tried this method, but after a few minutes I noticed my clown fish was breathing extremely heavily and was trying to find a way out of the small container. With that failure behind me I decided to try something new. I waited about a week so my anemone would have time to settle in and then I started.
What you will need:
Aquarium siphon tube (has to be taller than the water level of your tank)
Clear plastic container to catch clown fish (This is very important, you shouldn't use a net as i could remove the clown's protective slime coating)
So in order for this to work your anemone needs to be accessible and preferably towards the front of the tank.
First, you need to remove the plastic converter piece from the tube (the green thing in the image below) which will leave you with an open 1 1/2- 2 inch diameter tube.
Next try to position the tube so that it hovers directly over the anemone, BUT does not sit on it. In my tank I was able to jam it on a rock and then jam the top on the lid of my tank so it just sat there without me having to hold it. It is possible however to do this by just holding the tube there (this could potentially take some time, so make yourself some popcorn if you can't jam the tube and walk away).
Once you have everything ready, catch your clown fish in a clear plastic container, I say clear only because the fish are less intimidated by it. This step is usually pretty easy if you lure them in using food... clown fish are pretty dumb and they're slow swimmers so I never have trouble catching them when I need to.
Finally, just pour the clown directly into the tube and make sure that the tube is positioned in such a way that the clown would have to rub against the anemone on its way out.
Here are some pics of my clown using this method
Getting kinda curious
Touchdown :)
Using this method I noticed the my clown fish was much more relaxed since she was in a familiar environment. Most of the time she was in there she was swimming up and down the tube calmly. When she reached the bottom of the tube she wasn't very interested at first, but soon enough she let the anemone touch her belly. After about 10 minutes of going up and down she figured out how to get out and got the courage to rub her way through the anemone. The important part of all of this is that the clown fish wasn't directly forced onto the anemone, she was gently introduced.
This method is not guaranteed to work, as is such with captive bread clown fish, honestly this didn't even work on the female in the picture, however it did work on my smaller male who has been hosted for about a month now. After I did this he seemed much more interested in the anemone and within a week he was fully hosted. If it doesn't work for you, try a couple of times over the course of a few days, there isn't much risk for the anemone or the clown so there is no reason not to try it a few times.
Tell me what you guys think! :beer:
Hopefully this will work for someone else :dance:
What you will need:
Aquarium siphon tube (has to be taller than the water level of your tank)
Clear plastic container to catch clown fish (This is very important, you shouldn't use a net as i could remove the clown's protective slime coating)
So in order for this to work your anemone needs to be accessible and preferably towards the front of the tank.
First, you need to remove the plastic converter piece from the tube (the green thing in the image below) which will leave you with an open 1 1/2- 2 inch diameter tube.
Next try to position the tube so that it hovers directly over the anemone, BUT does not sit on it. In my tank I was able to jam it on a rock and then jam the top on the lid of my tank so it just sat there without me having to hold it. It is possible however to do this by just holding the tube there (this could potentially take some time, so make yourself some popcorn if you can't jam the tube and walk away).
Once you have everything ready, catch your clown fish in a clear plastic container, I say clear only because the fish are less intimidated by it. This step is usually pretty easy if you lure them in using food... clown fish are pretty dumb and they're slow swimmers so I never have trouble catching them when I need to.
Finally, just pour the clown directly into the tube and make sure that the tube is positioned in such a way that the clown would have to rub against the anemone on its way out.
Here are some pics of my clown using this method
Getting kinda curious
Touchdown :)
Using this method I noticed the my clown fish was much more relaxed since she was in a familiar environment. Most of the time she was in there she was swimming up and down the tube calmly. When she reached the bottom of the tube she wasn't very interested at first, but soon enough she let the anemone touch her belly. After about 10 minutes of going up and down she figured out how to get out and got the courage to rub her way through the anemone. The important part of all of this is that the clown fish wasn't directly forced onto the anemone, she was gently introduced.
This method is not guaranteed to work, as is such with captive bread clown fish, honestly this didn't even work on the female in the picture, however it did work on my smaller male who has been hosted for about a month now. After I did this he seemed much more interested in the anemone and within a week he was fully hosted. If it doesn't work for you, try a couple of times over the course of a few days, there isn't much risk for the anemone or the clown so there is no reason not to try it a few times.
Tell me what you guys think! :beer:
Hopefully this will work for someone else :dance:
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