perc clown not hosting

[jonthefb]

Just the other day i purchased a small bubble tipped anemone, and my perc lcown will go nowhere near it. I know that the natural fish for bubble tips is a maroon clown, but everyone says that just about any clown will host in a bubble tip. Any suggestions??

 

[salty guy]

Give it time.
If the fish has been in the tank for some time with nothing it may never take to it.

 

[ebeckels]

is it a wild fish or was it bred in a tank? A lot of times some captive bred fish will not take to an anemone.

 

[badkjb2]

my clown has never taken to my anemone either. from what ive read, sometimes they get so use to not having one around, that when you do introduce one, they arent intersted anymore.

 

[lotr_clown]

I had a couple of tank-raised ocellaris that took to a carpet anenome after a couple of days. I guess I was lucky. Unfortunately, the carpet did not make it past 2 weeks. I am now trying again after 6 months and as soon as I placed it in the tank, the female took to it. I believe that if it has been introduced to an anenome and takes to it, it will take to another without hesitation. That's probably why wild caught tend to go to anenomes a lot better. I don't think they exist in nature without a host anenome.

 

[lotr_clown]

By the way, the new anenome is a seabae.