One of my false percs keeps molesting my colt coral...

hairtrigger

Active Member
I know if a reef doesnt have an anenome for a clown to host, sometimes the little guys will resort to hairy shrooms or other fuzzy looking corals. But, he gave up on my hairies and has begun flopping around in my colt. The colt didnt seem to mind for a while, but yesterday after the clown finished rolling in it, the colt closed up its polyps some. Is the clown damaging the colt, or should it be ok? Cause the clown actually feeds it like it would an anenome. :cool:
 

sammystingray

Active Member
Most corals my clowns decided to live in have semed upset, and after awhile got used to it and went back to normal business, but I did have a finger leather that never did recover.....he used to shake the entire thing around while rubbing. Mine currently lives in a toadstool, and they both look as happy as can be. Hopefully, it will adjust.....some will, some won't......mine even curls over him like a bvlanket at night.....it did take awhile for the leather to adjust to the clown always being in him though.....day and night. Good luck. Here's a happy pair at night......the clown has to rub on him and bother him....now this is still hardly understood, but I believe to cover himself with the mucus of the coral....this way when a clown touches a coral, or normally an anemone, the creature can't even tell that it is not himself....he just knows the mucus. This is why clowns, in my opinion, have to dance all around when first hosting in anything....they need to coat their own skin with the hosts mucus to fool it into not noticing it touching it.
 

slick

Active Member
Like Sammy said most corals will adjust to the fish always being in, on, and around it. Mine clown currently hosts my flowerpot coral. At first it would retract it's tenacales but now it seems to not mind at all.
 

nerdy

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I wish I had a camera to take a pic. My perc doesn't use my colt like an anenome, but when the lights go out he goes to sleep the whole evening in the colt. It is the cutest thing!
 

hunterdaddy

Member
My gold banded maroon clown lives in my Tonga mushrooms. It used to live in my colt but both my colts got some disease and croaked. A shame really they were both very nice.
 

ozadars

Member
My seahorses also lives in my leather coral, not like clowns do but my colt doesnt like them, it closes immediately
 
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