Ocellaris host anemone ?

[Richard]

Does anyone have any experience with ocellaris clownfish (false perculas)hosting in the following anemones....

Heteractis magnifica, Magnificent Anemone, Ritteri Anemone
Heteractis crispa, Purple Long Tentacle Anemone
Macrodactyla doreensis, Long Tentacle Anemone

Also, if anyone can share any actual experience with ritteri's I would appreciate it.

Thanks

[Instar]

Ritteri: Will climb to a high point and likes a lot of current that brings food into it. Not a substrate digger from my experience. Very high light and not too tolerant of additives that jack the water up. Too much kalk, too many trace additives, too high a resulting alkalinity may shock and kill it. Ocellaris host readily in this species and love it. You should avoid touching it because its so sticky it may tear when you are trying to get it off your hand. Given the chance it will climb the glass and even have part of its foot and oral disk out of the water. Should be kept in a tank with a rock pile of large smoother rocks to climb that avoid the glass, provide the light and incoming current to keep it off the glass and from drying out on the edge IMO.

[Richard]

Sticky huh? So are the ritteri good at snagging fish like carpet anemones?

[Instar]

Healthy fish are smart staying clear of the sting and the Ritteri won't down it's hosting clowns like an aggitated carpet might. If a small fish was to dart hard into it for some unexplained reason though, its anemone food usually and if its a large fish that slams hard into one, its going to suffer severly and may even die later. It really shouldn't snag any more fish than a rose or LTA, they would rather collect fish foods (plankton) from the fast moving currents and photosynthesize during the high light hours.

[JeremyGlen]

My false percs love their LTA. I'm beginning to not love it as much because the tentacles are so long and sting my corals. As with any clownfish though, they can take some time to get used to the anemone. These two went through 4 anemones before they settled into this one, and that still took a few months after I put it in.

[betiuminside]

I have a Pair of Ocellaris and a Sebae Anemone and they don't even look at each other... they been together for 3 months, but... we will see

[hammondegge]

we have an ocellaris in a BTA, a Cinnamon Clown in a BTA, and a Percula in a BTA. the ocellaris took months to host. the cinnamon and perc took right to theirs

[GaryP]

My 125 had a herd of oscellaris hosting in 3 LTA when I got it.

[Thunderkat]

My clowns finally stopped hosting in my Tunze. They now host in my Xenia. :lol

[GaryP]

I have some GSM hosting in fuzzy rhodactis shrooms.

[Kuce]

I've two ocellaris that host in a carpet and two others that are hosting in some zoo's. They won't even look at two other BTA's. As for the carpet, it still took them 6-8 weeks to even figure out the carpet was in the tank, now you can't keep them away from it.

[cpreefguy]

My new onyx hosts in my trumpet :)
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c66/wantedwrx/RSCN4168.jpg

[jc]

I read that ocellaris would host in haddoni carpets. I added one about a week ago and so far the clowns ignore it. The carpet seems to be doing ok, I was unaware that they preferred deep sand beds. My tank has about 1" of fine sand and the carpet seems to have settled in. It is even getting its stickiness back. I think it was stressed from the shipping.