Hello I’m new with interesting situation.

[dcc0011]

Hello. I’m new to reefing and have had a tank set up for about a week and a half. 80 gallon acrylic with aio sump that I have restored from many scratches to be crystal clear. I then added 40 pounds of live Bahama Ollite. I bought 2 Ocellaris clownfish and one beautiful Maroon. They have all been getting along wonderfully as rare as that is and I’m very thankful for that. They even sleep together lol. I was in petco and noticed a clownfish hosting an anemone. I asked about it and the sales associate said he would give me the live rock for free. So I got a wonderful green bubble tip. Thing is the anemone seems very happy but my maroon has been trying to host it for a couple hours now and the GBT is hiding. Trying currently to google this but keeps giving me information on how to get a clown to host not the other way around. Just curious if anyone else has ran into this before? I guess it will sort itself out and I should be lucky to have a clownfish trying to host so quickly

 

[dcc0011]

This is my tank so far

 

[dcc0011]

This is my tank so far

 

[Peace River]

Welcome to Reef2Reef!!!

 

[Sean Clark]

Welcome. Nice PetCo find. My first guess is lighting.

 

[PeterC99]

Welcome to R2R!

Great looking start!

 

[Anemone_Fanatic]

Welcome to R2R! My BTA seems confused by clownfish trying to be hosted by it, so it closes up whenever they start messing with it. Maybe your nem is just not used to the maroon yet. I hope this helps!

 

[mehaffydr]

Welcome to R2R

That is a Very New tank for an Anemone, Typically you want a tank to stabilize and mature for 6 month to a year. There is really nothing you can do other than provide the best conditions possible. The fish and Anemone will decide what they want to do. Stability is key.
What do you have for Light?

 

[bnord]

great start and welcome to da club


Agree with the above and lighting will help immensely in my opinion (too)

hope to see more of you

 

[Fred2482]

Welcome! The anemone needs time to get comfortable and hopefully has the right conditions for it to be happy.

 

[KrisReef]

Let me be the first to blame Petco for this situation.
With that outta the way
Welcome to Reef2Reef!

That Maroon is to aggressive for the little green guy.

 

[Miami Reef]

Welcome to the forum!

Post your parameters please. You need to upgrade your light for an anemone.

 

[|Frank|]

Welcome to R2R!

 

[Schraufabagel]

 

[G Santana]

Welcome to R2R

 

[dcc0011]

Well, woke up this morning and was searching for my maroon clown. Shined my cellphone light in the tank and his tail was just visible. They paired last night BTA is fully extended hosting my maroon. Pics to come later today. Thanks for the encouragement

 

[dcc0011]

Welcome to the forum!

Post your parameters please. You need to upgrade your light for an anemone.

Yeah thanks. I just wanted to acclimate with the Corolife mini. Ai prime coming in a week or two. I’ll post parameters on Saturday (water change day)

 

[dcc0011]

Let me be the first to blame Petco for this situation.
With that outta the way
Welcome to Reef2Reef!

That Maroon is to aggressive for the little green guy.

Lol yeah this little guy is different that’s for sure. Very nice maroon. I definitely feel lucky to have purchased him.

 

[dcc0011]

Welcome to R2R

That is a Very New tank for an Anemone, Typically you want a tank to stabilize and mature for 6 month to a year. There is really nothing you can do other than provide the best conditions possible. The fish and Anemone will decide what they want to do. Stability is key.
What do you have for Light?

Corolife mini. Just acclimating with it

 

[rmorris_14]

Welcome to the party!