ocellaris and RBTA?

[alexmir]

I am not a new-comer who just bought a nemo hoping it will take to any anemone.
I have had my ocellaris clown for about 3 months, and am thinking about getting him a new anemone. (i have done my own research, and have read many times where people's oscellaris hosted the RBTA with no problem.) I am getting new lights this friday (a 150 MH and 2x39 watt t5's. The lights are only 36 inches long, and are going over a 60 gallon corner tank, so the light is not going to be spread out over a 48 inch tank, it is in a pretty compact area, and from my reading, have done a decent amount, i think i am able to keep an anemone.
One of the only ones that i find eye appealing and able to put into my tank because of the size they reach is the red bubble tip anemone. Has anyone had any luck with their ocellaris (false perc. ) hosting to a red bubble tip? I do not want to add a carpet in there and it get huge, and the other natural host for the ocellaris also gets up to 2 feet, way too big!
My tank has been up for over a year, and have had a very successful reef tank for 6 months!
So, anyone had any luck?

 

[1journeyman]

I had Clowns host a BTA after about 6 months. Others have had success as well.
The lighting should work. My only concern would be if the anemone decides to live somewhere that the light is not srong enough. You may have to move your lights to keep them over where your anemone decides to call home.

 

[alexmir]

It took six months for them to host the anemone? The way i have my rocks set up the anemone could not really go anywhere and not be under good lighting... And i am already having to move around my coral because of the increase in lighting.

 

[perfectdark]

Originally Posted by alexmir
http:///forum/post/2622605
It took six months for them to host the anemone? The way i have my rocks set up the anemone could not really go anywhere and not be under good lighting... And i am already having to move around my coral because of the increase in lighting.
If they are tank bred it will take longer if at all. Its my opinion that hosting is a learned trait and not an instinctive one. I have one wild caught sumatra perc, (really I think its an ocellaris). It wouldnt look at my anemone for over 3 months. Then I added a wild caught true perc that went right to the anem. In 1 day the larger ocellaris kicked out the perc and took the anemone for herself. The perc got beat up pretty bad by the female and didnt make it. I since added another ocellaris and this time the female accepted him. He was tank raised and in a day after being accepted by the female he was in the anemone. So, my point to that whole story is, if its a wild caught fish IMO your chances of it aquiring an anemone are far better as they would of been exposed to seeing other fish do this in the wild. JMO.
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