Would this be ok?

[hiddenicon]

is it ok to have more than one anemone in a tank if your clown fish only hosts one of them?
and how do clown fish get the stinging cells on there bodies so they don't get stung by the anemones

 

[giraffemaster]

Yes it's ok to have more than one anemone in a tank with only one clownfish. At one point my dad's anemone split so many time's there were 5 or 6 anemones in the tank and they were killing all his coral so we took them out and sold them to the fish store. The clownfish will take care of as many anemones as you have.
My anemone split a few months ago and the clown took care of and used both of them. I sold the clone today to the fish store.

 

[giraffemaster]

I'm not sure what you are asking for the other question. Are you asking how the clown doesn't get stung by the anemone? If this is what you're asking then the answer is no one really knows. One theory is that the clownfish have a thicker mucus layer than other fish. Clownfish by Joyce Wilkerson has some info on this.

 

[thomas712]

:scared:
Got to go to work but I'll be back.

 

[hiddenicon]

Magic_Carp,
would it be ok to have a sebae,BTA, and long tentacle anemone in the same tank as long as the clown fish only hosted one of them?

 

[thomas712]

Originally posted by Hiddenicon
is it ok to have more than one anemone in a tank if your clown fish only hosts one of them?

Absolutly not. unless they are clones of same
Never mix anemone species in the same tank, you will just be asking for trouble and dead anemones.
It is ok to start off with one, and then have clones of the same anemone species in the tank like I have. I now have 7 BTA's living in harmony because they are all clones of each other. 5 of them live on the same rock and do not sting each other.
I don't believe that theory would work for say carpet anemones that have a much stickier tenticals.
I'll answer your second question with a seperate post on why clownfish don't get stung.
Thomas