Clown Doesnt Have A Home!

[halo_frk03]

Ok Well Its Been 3 Days And My Black Clown Doesnt Have A Home Yet... At Night He Just Hides Behind The Heater And Powerhead.... There Is Plenty Of Hiding Spaces In The Liverock For Him.... How Long Did It Take Ur Clowns To Settle In?
Thanks
Halo

 

[zoie2]

I've had my clown over almost 2 months, and it still doesn't settle anywhere. Just swims around all over. I only have a 12 gal. so I don't have the room for an anemone, but I've heard some clowns host in toadstool leathers and star polyps. I have both and nothing yet.

 

[alyssia]

My clowns in my 75 gallon took about 5 months to settle in. The clown I have in my 55 gallon found a home right away.

 

[halo_frk03]

bump... well my clown doesnt even go in the rockwork at all even during the day,,,, he moves up down and around the tank but never in the rocks

 

[hsanchez]

I've had one of mine for about a year and just swims around all day, never in the rockwork though. Never settled anywhere. Sleeps next to the powerhead also.

 

[thomas712]

It happens..Many clowns hang out very near where they were released into the aquarium. It could be lonely as well.
I knew a guy that had the same problem and wouldn't try an anemone, so he strung a plastic freshwater log type thing near the top back of the glass, his clown made it into a home in about a week.
Thomas

 

[natep206]

plate coral maybe???
nate

 

[hottie79]

My clowns sleep together behind the protien skimmer, they never go in the rocks, but then again it has only been about a month, and I dont have anenomes yet anyway. They are so cute though. good luck with your little fish! :happyfish

 

[halo_frk03]

ok well a different question.... since i have him now.... i would like to add another clown... i knew i should have added them at the same time but..... ok well i have a firefish, royal gramma, black clown, scooter blenny(trying to get rid of , if ur interested check my thread in corals and trading). and would like to add a regular orange ocellaris... i know i would have to make the new one smaller than the first one... can i do it?

 

[bluelagoon]

i know it's been awhile, but i just saw that no one answered your last question....
i have a black ocellaris and a regular ocellaris together in my ten gallon tank, they've been in there about two weeks now. i added them to the new tank at the same time, and they get along pretty well. they are starting to decide dominance, and i think the reg one will be the female.
for the first day they hid in the back of the tank at the bottom, but now they swim all around and through the rockwork ALL the time! they also sleep together at night in the rockwork right in the front of the tank! i guess i'm just lucky!

 

[calgar]

well, I bought a BTA for my mated clows, they took 2 weeks to settle in, and then one day the BTA got sucked by the filter

I had to pull it from there almost all shredded but alive. I didn't discarded it but kept it properly well fed and it's growing back again :cheer:
In the meantime, my mated pair took as their home the Xenias I have in my tank. Now that the BTA is healthy again they returned to it

 

[chipmaker]

I would not worry a bout it. I also wanted a home for my clown, but did not have sufficient lights to do it, so I did without, well actually clown had to do without. I tried various other corals, and he rejected everything. In my one tank I had a huge toadstool leather, and two clowns......I removed the huge toadstool to open up some space and allow me to add more smaller corals, and placed that huge toadstool in a 10 gal. I was given a skunk clown that was in the LFS for over a year without being sold, and I no sooner placed the skunk clown in that 10 gal tank and he went right in that toadstool and hung out his home sweet home sign. They have been inseperable since.....Lots of clowns especially TR types seem to not really show interest to any particular anenome or spot in the tank. YOu can tell though when they start to settle in some will start to wallow out a spot in the sand and use it as a home of sorts.

 

[xnikki118x]

I had a maroon clown that hosted a condi after like a week (it was WEIRD), and my clarkii found his sebae anemone after a few minutes of being in the tank.
Do you have any mushrooms or toadstools? A friend of mine had clowns host those a lot, and the same maroon I had in the condi hosted the mushrooms at first.