Clown and Anemone not bonding

[beatynator]

Hey i need some help. Idk if theres anything I can do to help the relation ship but i had 2 percula clowns and 1 tomato clown and the tomato has been in the tank for a day but the other 2 have been there for about a mounth. Neither of them seem to have made any attempt to go in the rose anemone. What should I do?

 

[thomas712]

First of all your looking for big trouble. That tomato clown can and will be a territorial brute. I have seen them kill other clowns. I would take it back before there is trouble. Three clowns, unless they are of the same breed in that size tank, will eventually be a problem IMO,IME.
The perculas don't normally go to a E.Quad in nature but I have seen them do it several times in the aquariums. You will just have to give it time. The tomato might as well, but there will be a fight over it with those two speices. Then again they may never host.
Welcome to the board

Thomas

 

[beatynator]

the tomato is smaller than the other 2 so i thought it would be ok? but idk. They all swim as a pack right now, they seem fine. But they could take to the anemone later? I thought if they didn't do it right away that they wouldnt do it at all.

 

[thomas712]

They could eventually, I've seen it take months, and then sometimes it never happens.
Perhaps adding a juvi tomato could work, but watch it as it grows older.