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DustinWayman
Wed, 16th Jul 2003, 12:50 PM
Hey everyone, well, I picked up a tiny oscelares (sp*) clown at Charlies Austin Aquariums yesterday. Anyways, I go off to work this morning and dont check on my tank, when I came home I was shocked! My baby clown is now calling my Feather Duster home. totally cool, I though! Will this stress the feather duster out too much? I will get some pictures up very soon.

~Dust
SuperXdude
Wed, 16th Jul 2003, 07:32 PM
lol! I've got a clown with no anemone yet.

I have discovered 4 feather dusters growing so far though.

I need to take a pic and have some other things growing identified.
DeletedAccount
Wed, 16th Jul 2003, 08:38 PM
Mine have hosted in button polyps, a large elephant ear mushroom (or something like that), Xenia, and now a torch coral. It must be neat to see it in the feather duster!
matt
Wed, 16th Jul 2003, 11:05 PM
My pair of oscellaris clowns are happily ignoring the E. quad anemone that now lives in my 100 gal tank with them. (They were in my 45, the anemone was in my nano.) They prefer the familiar candycane coral. But, they are swimming all over the tank, so maybe at some point they'll move in. I know it's not their natural host, but there are lots of stories about oscellaris clowns in E quads in aquariums.

Doesn't the featherduster retract when the clown touches it? I guess not, or you would have mentioned it.

Matt
REEFAHOLIC
Thu, 17th Jul 2003, 12:07 AM
It may keep the feather duster from opening and allowing it the find food.
Isis
Thu, 17th Jul 2003, 12:35 PM
I can't find the thread on the MARSH site, but someone had the same thing happen to he feather dusters and clowns. The picture he took was great, but I can't seem to find it....
DustinWayman
Thu, 17th Jul 2003, 01:24 PM
Haha, now I truely feel sorry for the poor guy. When the lights are on he has learned that my Torch Coral is his buddy, but when the lights go off, he goes back to the Father Duster. Poor guy just doesnt know what happens to the Torch when the lights go off hahaha.

~Dust
SuperXdude
Thu, 17th Jul 2003, 02:17 PM
http://www.marshreef.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=435&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=feather+duster


Cute
Isis
Fri, 18th Jul 2003, 09:28 AM
You need to post a picture...
Pernelf
Fri, 18th Jul 2003, 01:24 PM
This isn't the pic you are talking about but my male clown used to host in the feather duster b/c the anenome wasn't big enough for the him and the female and she would kick him out every night :) I always felt so sorry for him

http://www.pernelf.com/Clown_Feather.jpg
Isis
Fri, 18th Jul 2003, 04:20 PM
Wonder if this is unusual in the wild???

I guess it is the tank-raised guys who forget where they are supposed to be sometimes, unless if you are the guy clown, then you are just SOL... My female used to do the same thing to my male, but he would try to sneak in teh "back door" through the rocks so she couldn't tell he was back in bed...