some pics fo my clowns hosting my torch coral

[Wolfgang8810]

I have had these two clowns for 8 months now. they are really the life of my tank. The black one bites me from time to time but i think hes just reminding me to wear my gloves. :-) I do have a question too. What are the black spots on my orange clown? they are NOT raised they appear to be changes in the pigment.

[PEMfish]

Sorta looks like a big rig in a bike rack.

The spots are normal. Don't be alarmed as most orange clowns seem to get them.

[Wolfgang8810]

haha yea. My coral is usualy much much puffier that it looks in the picture. I was messing around in the tank before the picture was taken.

[G!N+T0N!K]

cool I wonder if my clown will host my torch. thanks for sharing.

[Wolfgang8810]

I jsut took a quick vid of the little guys playing. Enjoy!

[Frankie]

That's hilarious! Thanks for sharing

[Wolfgang8810]

Not a problem Frankie. The orange one dive bombs it from time to time they are a hoot. the only thing i dont like is my beautiful fluffy happy torch is being harassed and dosent open as much as it used to

[Frankie]

It's going to be forced to grow bigger faster. Keep an eye on it and if it starts to decline then you might have to bring the happiness to an end. Wait and see.

[funkpolice]

Torch corals have very fragile flesh? and very sharp skeletons, so keep an eye on them. Those clowns could very easily rip your coral. I think all euphies are prone to problems with infections as well, so you're playing with fire in my opinion.
bill

[fatman]

I would toss the clowns and keep the corals. Poor corals, nasty ole fish. Why would one keep clowns without an anemone. Too much stress for a coral. Clowns are also known to mouth corals, drag them around steal food from them and in general make life miserable for them. Ugh.

[lcstorc]

Please don't encourage people to get anemones with their clowns. Usually clowns are a first purchase and as you know anemones require special attention.
Now avoiding clowns with Euphies it something different. My maroon is a quite happy host to my toadstool and the coral seems perfectly fine after many months.
I just don't want to encourage any more anemone deaths the same way you want to discourage coral deaths.

[fatman]

It is true a coral can likely deal with the harrassment of a clow better than an anemone can dael with nearly all mixed reef tanks. Few people ever have true success with anemones. It is difficult to read a person excited exclaim that they kept a nem alive for 5 or 6 months. I do not even want to know how long that nem would have lived in the wild, or how many died in the collection/shipping/wholesaler/shipping/retailer process before that one even made it into a reef keepers tank.

[Wolfgang8810]

woah guys. Its all under control. when and if my torch gets damaged I will move it. I still opens quite a bit just not as much as before. The video was taken at night with the lights off so it was at its smallest then. If you look at the pictures i originally posted that is the torch when it is half inflated. I was cleaning the glass before the picture so i may have done some of the harassing.

[funkpolice]

my clown doesn't want anything to do with my euphies. at night he sleeps by the power head, so I guess thats what he host in. If I observed him messing with my corals, I would get rid of him, I didn't buy him, he came with the tank. As far as stealing food from the corals, my royal gramma and cleaner shrimp are way worse than the clown.
bill

[lcstorc]

Sorry we went off on an anemone tangent. Many many anemones die both during collection/import and in the unprepared hobbiests tanks.