Clown hosting

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fsn77

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A local club member had a clown that hosted his favia brain. I guess some clowns don't feel the need for any tentacles to be sticking up / waving around when they pick a host. Our clowns at least host in a couple of our frogspawn and hammer corals. But, yeah, that is kind of weird they chose your plating montipora.
 

jagr200

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I was at my LFS and a clown in their tank was hosting with a clam. Kinda strange but it was just laying on its side then it would swim away for awhile then come back over and over again.
 

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Funny thing is that these clowns hosted my anem before it killed itself, then just hung out in the general area until I added the monti. I added a toadstool leather but they didn't even bat an eye.

Sorry It was supped to be general salt not FW
 

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Clowns will usually take any host that will accept them (if you have a clown in the hosting mood). So basically anything is fair game in the tank. My clown doesn't like to be tied down by one host so she will change every two months or so.
 

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feather's right... they'll host just about anything. I've seen brains, mushrooms, macro algae, sps, rocks, corners, powerheads, intakes of HOB filters, feather dusters, algae clips, magfloats. A guy in my club also had clowns hosting his clam. Only they hosted INSIDE because it was a huge gigas...
 

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feather's right... they'll host just about anything. I've seen brains, mushrooms, macro algae, sps, rocks, corners, powerheads, intakes of HOB filters, feather dusters, algae clips, magfloats. A guy in my club also had clowns hosting his clam. Only they hosted INSIDE because it was a huge gigas...
I find myself curious on this.:lipssealedsmilie: I had anemones though for the clowns to host so I have not noticed them hosting anywhere else other than switching anemones.:grinyes:
 
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