Yippeeeee!!!!!!

newbe reefer

newbe reefer

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After two months my Clown has finally hosted my Hairy Mushroom!!!!!! It is the cuttest thing watching him snuggle up in his new host. I had nearly given up hope that it would ever happen. Ahhhhhhh so happy!
Just had to share, I'll try to get a pic,
:D
NewBe
 
clarkiiboi

clarkiiboi

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This isn't irritating for the mushrooms? Just curious, obviously it's not though. I never heard of that before, and I always like new info. :D
 
newbe reefer

newbe reefer

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The Mushroom doesn't seem to mind at all. I didn't get a chance to take a picture last night. This is a picture of Bang Guys's Clown/Mushroom pair, hope you don't mind Guy :)
NewBe
 
tigerlover

tigerlover

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Jeez, guy, those are wonderful looking clowns, mine wasn't like that, it was a false perc though not a black one, but it was kinda dull.
 
slowest is fastest

slowest is fastest

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FWIW
Hairy mushrooms (Rhodactis sp) are part of a larger group of Corallimorpharia or coral anemones. I think that the mushroom actually benifits from the extra food brought to it by the clown. While I have never seen (doesn't mean anything :) ) a colony of the smoother mushrooms hosting a clownfish I have seen many of the hairy or frilly mushrooms (especially the larger ones) host several clowns at once.
SiF
PS COOL PICS !
 
brinkdrum

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That is awesome!!! Hopefully when i conquer my little cyano bloom i'll gets some more corals in my tank. I wanna try an experiment to see if my Maroon Clown will take to a Hairy Mushroom Coral. Is hairy mushroom coral the most common for a clown to take host to. I've heard of them hosting others, but seems to me like they like the hairys the best.
 
newbe reefer

newbe reefer

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Hey brinkbrum, Hairy Mushrooms are not the most common hosts for Clowns but should take to one if nothing else is offered. I did not want to go the Anemone route (too hard to care for) so I picked a Hairy Shroom because they are VERY hardy. It did take over 2 months for my Clown to host the Shroom, but now that he has he only leaves it to eat :)
BangGuy is a good person to ask Clown/Hairy Shroom questions, he is the one that got me going on the combo.
Thanks,
NewBe
 
melissa v.

melissa v.

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My clown host his plate coral,(see him under it? that's where he sleeps every night when the lights go out) sorry for the blurry pic, i resized it and that 's what i got, but you get the idea.
Melissa V.
 
wrassecal

wrassecal

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Melissa, I just love seeing that pic:D Never seen anything like it. It's a tomato right. Here's my tomato in the bta. It has such an orange color, more like a perc.
 
newbe reefer

newbe reefer

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Sheree, what kind of fish is that???? Very cool looking.
I was asked what kind of clown I have, it's a tank bred Occelaris.
Last night after the lights went off in the tank I was looking all over for the clown and could not find him anywhere. Then I saw the tip of his tail fin poking out from under the Mushroom. I guess he is now sleeping under it. Too cute.
I LOVE this hobby.
:D
NewBe
 
melissa v.

melissa v.

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WRASSECAL, YES IT IS A TOMATO CLOWN, I HAVE POSTED THAT PIC A FEW TIMES HAVEN'T I:D I AM GOING TO GET A BETTER PIC, AND POST IT ONE OF THESE DAYS, THE PROBLEM IS MY HUBBY BOUGHT A NEW CAMERA WITH ALL THE BELL'S AND WHISTLES ON IT AND I HAVE BEEN WORKING SO MUCH I JUST HAVEN'T TOOK TIME TO FIGURE IT OUT, WHEN I TOOK THIS PIC IT WAS CLEAR AS IT COULD BE, BUT I HAD TO RESIZE IT AND THAT'S WHAT I GOT, BUT I WILL FIGURE IT OUT (I HOPE) , IT WILL BE EASY TO TAKE A PIC OF MY TOMATO CLOWN UNDER THE PLATE CORAL, HE GOES IN AND OUT IT ALL THE TIME, AND SPENDS ALL NIGHT IN THERE.
MELISSA V.
 
sheree

sheree

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Mine is a Tomato clown,,,and he hosts in anything he can. lol
Even my xenia he tries.
(sorry..bad pic)
 
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