Carpet Anemone Hosting Clownfish

The clownfish can protect the anemone from predation from certain anemone eating fish species racoon butterfly fish and the anemone can protect the clownfish from predation as well.
Carpet anemone hosting clownfish. Edited november 17 2011 by swag. Clownfish have been known to host many things other than anemones including feather dusters and toadstool corals after rejecting every anemone presented to it. This anemone is attractive cheap hardy and adaptable. This anemone is widely accepted as a host anemone by many species of clownfish.
But you can try putting a bubble tip in there also most clowns seem to host those. Clownfish stop hosting anemone i have tank bred spotinchus clownfish and sebae anemone. Some aquarists believe that tank raised clownfish do not host anemones as readily as wild caught clownfish after a few generations. In the wild a.
But i can t help to feel letdown that i can t enjoy that in my current tank. When i got home from work i saw my. Frenatus fiji barberi tomato a. I will be honest and say that i really enjoyed watching the clownfish and anemone relationship at display and is the main reason i got the fish and the invert.
It also hosts the largest range of clownfish species. The anemones they are normally associated with are ritteri heteractis magnifica giant carpet stichodactyla gigantea and merten s carpet stichodactyla mertensii all these anemones get very large. Clownfishes may also provide food in a round about way for the anemone. Percula host only heteractis magnifica the magnificent sea anemone stichodactyla gigantea the giant carpet anemone heractis crispa sebae anemone and stichodactyla mertensii merten s carpet anemone.
Barberi and maroon premnas biaculeatus are the common clownfish species known to occupy of anemone in the sea. It s scientific name is entacmaea quadricolor the bubble tip bulb tip or tipped or rose anemone. Vivid aquariums 18 066 views. I had the spotinchus clownfish for 5 months and the sebae for 6 days.
Previously in my 55gal tank i kept a clarkii with a green carpet anemone before taking that down.